Unpublished Newswire
In October, staff at a women’s shelter in Hamilton had to turn away 67 women seeking refuge. The next month, they turned away 51. With only 40 funded beds, Martha House, for women and children fleeing violence, would need to quadruple its capacity to accommodate all of this demand. The shelter is simply too full – and has been for as long as staff can remember.
January 3, 2026 - 08:00 | Molly Hayes | The Globe and Mail
On the wall of Sol Mamakwa’s office at the Ontario legislature hangs a picture painted by his late wife, Pearl. It depicts a brown hand coming down from the sky, lightly touching one of five green and orange tents that sit on top of a hill with a small round window inside.
January 3, 2026 - 08:00 | Laura Stone | The Globe and Mail
Engineering professors Ashwin Iyer and James Hogan run an academic research centre focused on defence and dual-use technology that the University of Alberta calls the first of its kind in Canada. It also represents a new and rapidly growing area for university research, part of a national mobilization of talent and resources to defend the sovereignty and security of Canada and its allies.
January 3, 2026 - 08:00 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
TEL AVIV – Former IDF spokesman Alon Penzel is embarking on a Canada-wide speaking tour in coming weeks. He exhales deeply when asked why: he felt he had to, given the level of Oct. 7 denialism, minimalization and ignorance two years into the Gaza war.
“To speak up for those whose voice was taken,” he says; those who were murdered “but also to those tortured, raped, wounded, held hostage, abused; to the victims’ families and the massacre’s survivors, who want their story and the truth out, but some of them are still too traumatized, mentally unprepared, to share these stories...
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
On Thursday afternoons, Dina McGovern is usually tucked in a corner of the neonatal intensive care unit at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, humming a nursery rhyme and cuddling a baby.The 76-year-old retired lactation consultant and grandmother of five quips she’s not much of a singer, but she likes to croon melodies for the babies she snuggles through a hospital volunteer program.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
Daniel Jutras, rector of the University of Montreal, says universities are under fire and underfunded. The former McGill University law dean, who has spent about four decades in academia and who served as senior counsel to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, says the public is more skeptical of expertise than ever before.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
