Unpublished Newswire
I had looked at that picture of my mother hundreds of times as it sat on her dresser in the nursing home where she spent the last 18 months of her life in Qualicum, British Columbia — a beautiful Scottish 19-year-old with dark long curls framing her face and silver wings adorning her dress. A young woman who would eventually immigrate to Canada to Clarkson, Ontario, now Mississauga, with her husband and young family.
But it was only after her death on May 29, 2024, at age 99, that I noticed the flyer’s wings on her dress. How was it possible that I had never registered them before?...
November 8, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
I didn’t expect, while on a recent trip to Buxton, England, to find myself crouching before 29 shining white tombstones of Canadian soldiers, clustered under a row of holly trees bearing bright red fruit. Rain fell onto the precisely trimmed grass and a grey October wind blew the red roses growing between the graves. On Nov. 11, locals will gather for the annual ceremony here, to light candles and lay wreaths to honour these men, casualties of the First World War who now rest far from where they lived and died.
November 8, 2025 - 07:00 | Irene Galea | The Globe and Mail
Only a week after Beau Friesen was born, his parents knew something was wrong, but two years later, they still don't know what. Now, the Grunthal, Man., family is going to Florida to see a genetics expert in search of answers.
November 8, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
It’s 5:30 a.m. My world is quiet. The only sounds I hear are the heat firing up and my dog eating his breakfast. I’m sitting on my couch when, above me, the silence breaks with the sound of scurrying feet and what sounds like a golf ball rolling across the ceiling. Even without X-ray vision, I know it’s a squirrel rolling a walnut. Old houses have slivers of openings that enable critters to enter. My old farmhouse is no exception.
“What shall I do? And under the eaves / and through the walls the squirrels have gnawed their ragged entrances—but it is the season / when they need shelter,...
November 8, 2025 - 06:30 | Nancy F. Castaldo | Walrus
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November 8, 2025 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
Three First Nations men from Saskatchewan who served in the Canadian Armed Forces say National Indigenous Veterans Day on Nov. 8 is a time to reflect.
November 8, 2025 - 05:00 | | CBC News - Canada
