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Victoria is coming off a glorious summer. Tourism was up. The B.C. capital was named the world’s “best small city” by Condé Nast Traveller for the third time, beating Florence, Italy and San Sebastián, Spain with its bustling harbour and rain forest adjacency. A major new hotel broke ground downtown – the first in two decades – and a handful of new restaurants added to an already boffo culinary scene.Most tourists, though, aren’t going the few blocks over to Pandora Avenue, where change is slower to come. The Globe and Mail chronicled the decade-long decline of the wide...
November 8, 2025 - 08:30 | Nancy Macdonald, Photography by Chad Hipolito | The Globe and Mail
Premier Scott Moe is to face a leadership vote at his Saskatchewan Party's convention in Saskatoon after capturing the party's fifth-straight majority.
November 8, 2025 - 08:12 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
John Moses says that when his father Russell Moses returned on leave from the Korean War, his battles weren’t over.When the Indigenous residential school survivor came back to Canada in 1952, he was turned away from a bar in Hagersville, Ont., because of his race, his son said.
November 8, 2025 - 08:06 | Brieanna Charlebois | The Globe and Mail
Shawn Pendenque grew up in an abusive household, where he was treated like a “pariah” for being gay. At 16, his father left him at a youth hostel, and Mr. Pendenque became homeless and addicted to drugs. He was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his 30s, after suffering a psychotic break and landing in a maximum-security prison.Such biographical details aren’t typically bullet points one might list on a CV. But for Mr. Pendenque, who just turned 50, his “lived experiences” have become an invaluable asset in his job with a social services organization in Toronto, where he now...
November 8, 2025 - 08:00 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
At OAG, The Art of a Good Death brings palliative-care research into the public realm through painting, film and an interactive exhibit. The show, created by Ottawa researcher Sarina Isenberg with artists from across Canada, asks an unsettling question: What does it mean to die well?
November 8, 2025 - 08:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
A Pakistani immigrant ordered deported 17 months ago for causing a deadly five-vehicle crash on a major highway in Mississauga, Ont., and then fleeing the scene, has won another chance to stay in Canada.
The “tragic” Jan. 27, 2018, crash on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) resulted “in the death of one person and severe injuries to various other individuals,” according to a recent Federal Court decision.
Yasir Baig “fled the scene of the accident but surrendered to the police” a dozen days later.
Father of two dead in crash that closed Toronto-bound Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) for five...
November 8, 2025 - 07:30 | Chris Lambie | National Post
