Unpublished Newswire
Tessa knew she was being watched. After ten minutes of keyboard or mouse inactivity, a timer would appear on her transcription software, asking her to select a reason for the pause. A medical transcriptionist in Atlantic Canada, Tessa (who has been granted a pseudonym to avoid any conflict with her employer) works remotely, spending her days alone with doctors’ voices and diagnostic codes. Fusion, the platform she uses, logged her inactivity in detail, and Microsoft Teams displayed an “Away” status just five minutes after her last keystroke. Her employer had set a target: transcribe at...
November 12, 2025 - 06:30 | Mihika Agarwal | Walrus
While it could provide a decent living, there was never any serious money to be made in book publishing. The shadow of insufficient cash flow constantly hung over the passions of acquiring the next book. Geoff Feilding, then executive editor at McClelland & Stewart, cautioned me about this early in my career. I wasn’t listening very intently.
In 1970, James Douglas and I founded the Vancouver-based Douglas & McIntyre. It was considered the poster child for a successful Canadian independent publishing house for a long time. But for any book publisher dependent on the market,...
November 12, 2025 - 06:29 | Scott McIntyre | Walrus
Good morning. Once you read the fine print, the federal budget’s housing plan is far from a generational investment – more on that below, along with the U.S. military buildup near Venezuela and a flood of A.I.-written resumes. But first: Today’s headlinesMark Carney plans to add mining and energy projects to his government’s major projects list, sources sayThe U.S. House returns to Washington for a vote to end the longest shutdown in historyU of T hires three top U.S. scholars and plans for 100 new postdocs
November 12, 2025 - 06:25 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand opened a meeting of the Group of Seven countries by calling for continued collaboration on many of the world's problems, from Russia's war in Ukraine to the fragile ceasefire in Gaza.
November 12, 2025 - 06:07 | | The Globe and Mail
Since early 2023, a tunnel boring machine has been slowly making its way south from Sheppard Avenue and McCowan Road, digging out a route for the Scarborough Subway Extension.
November 12, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
A relative of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has been given another chance to remain in Canada by arguing he was much closer to the brutal authoritarian regime than immigration officials thought he was.
Seraj Essaadi El Ferjani Ahmed, a citizen of Libya, has been in Canada since 2017 and appears to be the nephew of a notorious member of Gaddafi’s inner circle, a man so loyal he was fleeing with Gaddafi when the leader was caught by rebels in 2011 and killed.
Ahmed came to Canada to study aviation and was denied refugee protection by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board (...
November 12, 2025 - 06:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
