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Over 10K Air Canada flight attendants strike, grounding flights and limiting rebooking as experts urge travellers to prep backups, check insurance, and expect delays.
August 16, 2025 - 08:30 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
When Vett Lloyd was bitten by a tick in 2011, it marked the beginning of a painful, years-long battle with Lyme disease. It also abruptly altered the trajectory of her career.At the time, Dr. Lloyd’s research at New Brunswick’s Mount Allison University was focused on cancer biology but she wondered why people weren’t paying more attention to ticks. So, she converted her cancer lab into a tick lab and reoriented her life’s work around the tiny bloodsucker that nearly ruined her.
August 16, 2025 - 08:00 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
On a stretch of the south arm of the Fraser River, in the Vancouver area, the Cowichan Tribes in centuries past had an annual summer fishing village, a place they defended with a warrior ethos against other Indigenous groups.But in the mid-1800s, the Cowichan – whose home territory is on Vancouver Island – were displaced from that village as the British took control and, after British Columbia joined Canada, the land was sold over the years.
August 16, 2025 - 06:45 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
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August 16, 2025 - 06:30 | Ardra Shephard | Walrus
My friend Tom Mautner is the chair of the board of governors at a school in North London. This week, with students out for the summer, he took me for a tour. For a visitor from Toronto, where schools are run from the top down by a vast bureaucracy – a.k.a. the Toronto District School Board – it was an eye-opener.Laurel Park is a public secondary school with around 600 students. It was built in the 1960s in what is now an area of mixed incomes and backgrounds. Until just a couple of years ago, it was faring poorly. School inspectors gave it low ratings. Ambitious families shunned it....
August 16, 2025 - 06:30 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
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August 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Kayla Thompson | Walrus
