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Ahead of last month's Pride parade, organizers sounded the alarm over Pride Toronto's $900,000 shortfall after sponsors such as Google, Nissan and Home Depot pulled their support.
July 11, 2025 - 06:57 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Statistics Canada is set to report employment figures for June today.A Reuters poll of economists expect the pace of hiring stalled in June, with no change in employment predicted, according to LSEG Data & Analytics.
July 11, 2025 - 06:40 | | The Globe and Mail
I can trace my personal descent into what science journalist Ed Yong calls “birder derangement syndrome” back to when I started referring to myself as a “sewage lagoon aficionado.” It wasn’t just that I had taken to setting my alarm for 4 a.m. during spring migration to be in position just in time for the peak dawn chorus, or that I was cancelling all non-bird-related social engagements in May, but that I had started planning vacations around proximity to wetlands and sewage lagoons to maximize roving insect populations, which translate into bird sightings.
I wasn’t always like this. I...
July 11, 2025 - 06:30 | Julia Zarankin | Walrus
When I was a child growing up in a Mauritian household, gossip was something to be savoured. I learned that the reward for bad behaviour was widespread circulation of your misdeeds. I attended many bull sessions where my family cut our calamity-prone familiars down to size. We gossiped in kitchens, waiting on slow-cooking rougailles, over carrom tables and spirited games of dominoes, and in the now-shuttered Blue Bay Café—to my knowledge, the only Mauritian restaurant in Toronto.
But I did not regard this behaviour as a guilty pleasure until I was a teenager, after I began to...
July 11, 2025 - 06:29 | Jean Marc Ah-Sen | Walrus
A superficial reading of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s policybook is that she’s simply following the blueprint laid out for her by her MAGA cousins down south. It indeed has many of the Republican highlights: enduring grievance politics, legislation on trans youth, a tinge of vaccine skepticism, and most recently, an initiative to effectively ban certain books from school libraries. On Thursday, Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides announced a new provincial standard to “ensure school library materials are age-appropriate and free of sexually explicit content.”Each agenda...
July 11, 2025 - 06:15 | Robyn Urback | The Globe and Mail
Good morning. The family of a Canadian man who died in ICE custody are grieving and seeking answers about why he was detained, unreachable, and if he had access to his medication. More on that below, plus updates from the Middle East and a lost message that has been found.Today’s headlinesU.S. President Donald Trump announces 35% tariffs on all Canadian goods starting Aug. 1Manitoba wildfires prompt a second declaration of provincewide state of emergencyAlberta to ban books deemed sexually explicit from school libraries and restrict materials about pubertyMoscow unleashed heavy air...
July 11, 2025 - 06:01 | Janice Dickson | The Globe and Mail
