
Residents in St. Thomas and Aylmer share their concerns about the region leading Ontario's measles cases as a local Mennonite Community Service teams up with public health expand its message to communities.
April 11, 2025 - 07:15 | | CBC News - Canada
Good morning. It has gone largely unreported, but the basic measures of human well-being have continued to get better in recent decades. More on our quiet progress below, along with measles updates and what happened yesterday on the federal election campaign trail.Today’s headlinesAfter a day of elation, markets slide as the U.S.-China trade war escalatesTC Energy CEO touts Asia as key to Canada’s economic diversification away from U.S.Trump order prompts a Canadian cancer research group to scrub gender-inclusive language from U.S.-funded trials Meet the Canadian linguist taking the...
April 11, 2025 - 07:04 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
Voter registration cards are expected to land in the mailboxes of Canadian voters by Friday, April 10.
It’s helpful to take your card when you go to vote. It
indicates
to the officials at your polling station that you are a registered voter. It also confirms your name and address, as well as the address of your polling...
April 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Axing the Tax: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Carbon Tax is a new book from Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Published by Sutherland House Books, it delivers a damning account of one of Canada’s most polarizing policies. In this excerpt, Terrazzano tackles the core promise behind the carbon tax: that it would reduce emissions.
The Trudeau government pushed the...
April 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
NANAIMO, B.C. — In a Vancouver Island city best known for a
three-tiered dessert bar
that bears its name, three progressive campaigns are similarly sandwiched together, with each vying to be the “anybody but Conservative” vote.
But unlike the ooey-gooey custard filling at the centre of a Nanaimo bar,...
April 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
As a kid in London, Ont., Will Nediger spent long hours at his older brother’s hockey games – with his back turned to the rink and his nose buried in a book. Mr. Nediger’s father, Bill, a teacher, like his wife Dale, remembers losing Scrabble games to his middle child when Will was only 8. At the family cottage in North Bay, Will and his parents spent TV-and-internet-less summers playing word games. It wasn’t long before he was a budding quiz-bowl champion and Mom and Dad were asking him for help.“In Grade 3, one of Will’s teachers asked the class to make anagrams from a word phrase and...
April 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Ben Kaplan | The Globe and Mail