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As a youngster in Quebec, she dreamt of becoming a dancer. Instead, Jennie Carignan soared to become Canada’s first female Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest-ranking military position in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Appointed to the rank and position in July 2024, Gen. Carignan was educated as an engineer, has served in the Canadian military for more than 35 years, and has held leadership roles with missions to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Syria. In 2013, she became the first woman commandant of the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Que.
On the personal side, Carignan, 57,...
December 17, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
The addictions crisis is seeping into every corner of the province, including in remote and isolated communities in northern Manitoba.
December 17, 2025 - 07:00 | Marney Blunt | Global News - Canada
It’s shaping up to be a nasty blast of winter across the Prairies today with snowstorms and blizzards set to dump up to 30 centimetres in some areas.Environment Canada says heavy snow will have a stranglehold on morning commutes in parts of northwestern Alberta, starting in Grande Prairie and heading east towards Edmonton, before tapering off later Wednesday.
December 17, 2025 - 06:52 | Aaron Sousa | The Globe and Mail
Ottawa and Ontario are set to sign a deal Thursday that will reduce the regulatory burden on large projects, including the road to the Ring of Fire.
December 17, 2025 - 06:39 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
On October 9, Israel and Hamas agreed to a truce backed by the Donald Trump administration. The first phase of the peace plan, which includes the exchange of hostages and prisoners and calls for humanitarian aid to be allowed back into Gaza, is nearing its end. What comes next? I reached out to Jon Allen, who served as Canada’s ambassador to Israel from 2006 to 2010 and is now a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, to talk about how the ceasefire is progressing so far and what to expect in the coming weeks.
Over the past two months, Israel has...
December 17, 2025 - 06:30 | Samia Madwar | Walrus
A few months ago, I went to a birthday party at a bar in Neepsend, an old industrial neighbourhood by the River Don in Sheffield. The bar had been a steelworks once, but now it was another example of the international style you find everywhere, from Portland, Oregon, to all the other Portlands in Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand: exposed brick, steel beams, concrete floors, Edison bulbs. The steelworkers had been transformed into accountants and brand managers, the molten pig iron into £9 cocktails.
When we sat down for dinner, I was placed next to a German who ran a small...
December 17, 2025 - 06:30 | André Forget | Walrus
