Unpublished Newswire
On Thursday afternoons, Dina McGovern is usually tucked in a corner of the neonatal intensive care unit at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, humming a nursery rhyme and cuddling a baby.The 76-year-old retired lactation consultant and grandmother of five quips she’s not much of a singer, but she likes to croon melodies for the babies she snuggles through a hospital volunteer program.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
Kris Stewart loved her cat Bear. A lot. So much so that when he died in 2022, she raced to store his DNA.“He was a very intelligent cat and mother earth wasn’t finished with his genes,” she said.In March, 2024, she welcomed two Bear clones to her home in Kelowna, B.C.: Bear Bear and Honey Bear. His feline magic was hers once again.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
Daniel Jutras, rector of the University of Montreal, says universities are under fire and underfunded. The former McGill University law dean, who has spent about four decades in academia and who served as senior counsel to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, says the public is more skeptical of expertise than ever before.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
Bear-dar is designed to survey the landscape and detect anything that moves. It can be used by communities as an early warning system, alerting them to a nearby polar bear.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Michael used to sleep with his phone under his pillow—not because he was waiting for an important call, but because the vibration from his banking app alerts would jolt him awake. Another overdraft. Another minimum payment. Another “you’re out of money” moment that felt like failure.
By day, he was a charismatic twenty-nine‑year-old marketing manager with a magnetic LinkedIn profile and a talent for storytelling. By night, he was dodging collection calls, ghosting his student loan portal, and panic-refreshing his credit card balance before trying to buy groceries. He didn’t always live...
January 3, 2026 - 06:30 | Kelley Keehn | Walrus
An immigrant pharmacist whose Canadian citizenship was revoked in November 2024, a decade after officials first suspected she hadn’t met the requirements, has seen that decision set aside and revocation proceedings permanently stayed by a Federal Court judge who criticized officials for waiting so long to act on the allegations of “false representation, fraud, or knowingly concealing material circumstances.”
Nermine Magdi Ibrahim, who became a Canadian permanent resident in July 2003 and subsequently a Canadian citizen in October 2007, applied to the Federal Court for a judicial...
January 3, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
