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A Toronto woman says her luggage was tossed out of a vehicle by an Uber driver when he heard her speaking Hebrew to her husband. The driver then refused to take them home from the airport after they arrived from a trip in the middle of the night in February.
Shiri Gabriel’s snub at Toronto Pearson airport brings the number of antisemitic acts involving the rideshare company and Torontonians to three. In August, David Woolf, 78, who splits his time between Toronto and Israel, said an Uber driver in Europe refused to take him, his wife and their friends to a train station, because he...
December 12, 2025 - 07:30 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
The first segment of Canada's proposed high-speed rail network would connect Montreal and Ottawa, according to Radio-Canada.
Federal Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon is expected to make the announcement this morning.
December 12, 2025 - 07:28 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Across Canada, there are millions of dollars worth of U.S.-made alcoholic products gathering dust in warehouses, all of it pulled from liquor store shelves in most provinces in retaliation for sweeping U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports.
If the idea of some of those products finding their way back to market leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, let the knowledge that several provinces are doing so to benefit local charities be the chaser.
Here’s the latest on what Canadian provinces are doing with their U.S. booze stockpiles.
Nova Scotia
Atlantic Canada’s most populous province was...
December 12, 2025 - 07:00 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
“The level of uncertainty is higher than what we have seen and felt for generations,” federal finance minister François-Philippe Champagne told the House of Commons in early November, describing the current state of the Canadian economy.
The transition Canada is undergoing—including the reshaping of “the rules-based international order and the trading system that powered Canada’s prosperity for decades”—is “a true generational shift,” he said. And it was in this spirit, he told the members of Parliament in the House, that he presented this year’s budget, the first from the Mark Carney...
December 12, 2025 - 06:30 | Colin Horgan | Walrus
I had never been to a literary event with booing until I attended the launch of Souvankham Thammavongsa’s debut novel, Pick a Colour, at the Toronto Public Library. She had chosen Steve Paikin, a Canadian media celebrity of sorts, to interview her. “I don’t read fiction,” he said up top. Thammavongsa, of course, won the Giller Prize for How to Pronounce Knife, her acerbic collection of short fiction, and her stories have been published by the likes of The New Yorker, Granta, Noon, and this very magazine. “Is this book really just for female readers?” he asked. Pick a Colour, which the...
December 12, 2025 - 06:29 | Ariella Garmaise | Walrus
Good morning. The Globe spoke with thalidomide survivors about how their lives have changed 10 years after a settlement with the Canadian government. More on that below, along with news on Costco patriotism and Time’s person(s) of the year. But first:Today’s headlinesA member of the Canadian Armed Forces has been arrested and charged in a foreign interference probeAnother Conservative MP is crossing the floor to the Liberals, putting the party one seat short of a majorityIn B.C., flooding displaces hundreds in the Fraser Valley as some highways reopen
December 12, 2025 - 06:11 | Erin Anderssen | The Globe and Mail
