Unpublished Newswire
A new court ruling combines sociological analysis and the facts of a minor crime to create a new genre of narrative that could be called Rural Ontario Gothic. Here is that ruling, in the case of His Majesty the King and Neil Valliant, handed down October 21, 2025, in Pembroke, Ont., by Justice J.R. Richardson, who compellingly tells the story of a shooting that injured no one but revealed a great deal:
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November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
At 2 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 2, daylight saving time (DST) will end and clocks will “fall back” one hour for most Canadians, forcing people to adjust their sleep schedules.
In Canada, DST always starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
DST is practiced in over 70 countries and by an estimated one billion people globally, but how did Canada come to participate in this peculiar routine, and why do some provinces just not bother? What are the potential benefits and downsides? Here’s everything you need to know about daylight saving time ahead of...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | National Post | National Post
California robotics company 1X has announced it is taking preorders for NEO, which they say is the “
world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot
.”
The...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Election day 1944 was just like any other in Montreal: rival candidates hired teams of thugs to smash windows and fire pistols at each other (17 men suffered bullet wounds), while “telegraphers” impersonated dead voters at the ballot box. When the glass had been swept up and the results were tallied, the enormous, swaggering Mr. Montreal, Camillien Houde, had been re-elected, mere months after completing a four-year stint in a prison camp for urging French-Canadians to dodge military service. Dressed in spats, with a pearl-grey vest and an ascot tie under his morning coat, he twirled his...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
As I get older, my parents begin to show me glimpses of their secret dreams. “Dad wants to move back to Vietnam when we retire,” Mum tells me. “We can live like kings and queens over there!” Dad hollers in the background.
My mother hasn’t returned since 1978. For one, she couldn’t travel without a passport, and she didn’t get her Canadian citizenship until after she turned fifty-five and was no longer required to take the citizenship test. Second, she’s in no rush to go back to a land still soaked in blood and mired in misery.
But then she surprises me one day. “I think I want to go...
November 1, 2025 - 06:30 | Rachel Phan | Walrus
The people of a small town on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland have had their prayers answered.The leaders of Portugal Cove South, a fishing town two hours from St. John’s, made headlines last year, including in this newspaper, for seizing their own church after learning the archdiocese was selling the building to help pay for a settlement in a historical sexual abuse scandal. Parishioners, hell-bent on keeping their church, changed the locks, posted no trespassing signs, banned the archbishop, thwarted a real estate sale and were eventually ordered by a court to stand down.
November 1, 2025 - 06:15 | Lindsay Jones | The Globe and Mail
