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Jack Frieberg’s parents were Holocaust survivors. Louis and Gerda Frieberg came to Toronto in the 1950s to start a new life in the New World. He worked as a carpenter, she as a seamstress, making 70 cents a dress in a Spadina Avenue sweatshop. As Toronto boomed in the postwar years, they saw an opportunity and started a construction company.
December 20, 2025 - 06:15 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
If you didn’t know better, you would think you’d fallen straight into a Hallmark movie. When Trish Granger moved back to her small hometown of Hardisty, Alta., in 2013 after a divorce, she fell in love again with her town, a place where people wave to each other from their cars on the main street.
December 20, 2025 - 06:15 | Danielle Paradis, Photography by Amber Bracken | The Globe and Mail
When Ontario resident Cindy McKay was preparing for a month in Europe this year, travelling with her 12-year-old grandson and living out of the contents of two carry-on bags, she knew she had homework to do.
“British Airways, Ryanair, Scandinavian,” she says, ticking off the various airlines that would take them to Athens, Crete, Dubrovnik, Prague, London and back to Canada.
Her plan? “Make a spreadsheet of all of the different airlines, what their requirements are, their weight allowances, their centimetres, all of it for me and my grandson to not get, you know, buggered anywhere...
December 20, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
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December 20, 2025 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
A Plains Cree fashion designer from Beardy’s & Okemasis Cree Nation, Stephanie Gamble is turning personal loss into purpose — lifting her children and Indigenous and two-spirit youth along the way.
December 20, 2025 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
No matter you're going or how you're getting there, wise travellers this holiday season will be watching the forecasts, hoping for the best and preparing for anything.
December 20, 2025 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
