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In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the colonies that would later become Canada were awash in a sea of rum. Millions of litres of that sugar-based liquor were imported every year to supply its comparatively small population of colonists and Indigenous people, while thousands of additional litres flowed from colonial distilleries.
Why rum, and why so much of it? The simple answer is that it was cheap and plentiful in eighteenth-century North America. Thought to be good for the health, at least when imbibed in moderation, readily available liquor was generally seen as a good...
April 3, 2026 - 06:29 | Allan Greer | Walrus
Canada's tax filing season is officially underway, with the tax filing deadline set at April 30, and many Canadians are now relying on their tax refund as a financial lifeline.
April 3, 2026 - 06:00 | Uday Rana | Global News - Canada
Samantha Hemmings stood in the operating room entrance, watching her sister Sophia on the table.
“Help me, please,” she recalls her sister saying. “I can’t breathe.”
In the spring of 2009, Sophia went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a caesarean section. She suffered an anoxic brain injury: for crucial minutes, her brain was deprived of oxygen.
Her baby boy lived. But today, Sophia cannot speak, cannot walk, cannot turn herself in bed. Her mother is her primary caregiver and has been trying to teach her to communicate by pointing to pictures.
Samantha, one year Sophia’s...
April 3, 2026 - 06:00 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
Deborah Meister, Executive Archdeacon of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal, knows that many members of her faith are, to put it bluntly, old.
“People who have been hanging on faithfully and practicing their faith and sharing their love of Christ with one another and with their neighbours all their lives,” she says. “Many of them have reached the point where they’re no longer able to attend church regularly because they’re in senior homes, or they have limited mobility.”
But there’s another group within what she deems a “bifurcated” religion.
“We are also seeing the rise of people I...
April 3, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
The death of an Ottawa man earlier this year while waiting for home care is under investigation, Ontario’s Minister of Health Sylvia Jones confirmed. Read More
April 3, 2026 - 04:00 | Elizabeth Payne | Ottawa Citizen
Annual cases of invasive meningococcal disease, a rare but dangerous bacterial infection, have hit the highest level seen in Canada in more than a decade. This rapidly-progressing illness can cause meningitis, sepsis or even death, and children and young adults often bear the brunt.
April 3, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
