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Nearly 500,000 Canadian addresses will lose home delivery as Canada Post forges ahead with conversions to community mailboxes. In an announcement made on Thursday , the crown corporation said it “is moving forward with community mailbox conversions as part of its broader transformation to modernize the postal service and return to financial self-sustainability.” In the coming weeks and months, Canada Post will be connecting with 37 communities across the country, the initial stage of converting 485,000 addresses from door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes in 2027. That’s on top...
June 13, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Fertility Inc. is a multi-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that delves into the Wild West of the egg-freezing industry, its aggressive marketing, the high cost and the chances of an eventual successful pregnancy. Megan Robinson, 37, isn’t sure if she wants to have children, but if she does become a mother she hopes it will be with a partner the natural way. In the meantime, as a backup plan, she decided to freeze her eggs. Still, she faced moments of uncertainty as she jabbed herself daily with painful needles, paying $10,000 out of pocket for the procedure, which is...
June 13, 2026 - 07:00 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
AltaLink is testing AI-enabled wildfire cameras in Kananaskis that can automatically detect smoke and alert staff to potential fire starts. AI wildfire detection cameras are being increasingly being rolled out across western North America as communities look for new ways to detect wildfires quicker.
June 13, 2026 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
The year the iPhone 3G came out, the one with the GPS chip installed and working Google Maps, Todd Humphreys spent a lot of time on the floor of his Bay Area apartment, surrounded by a jumble of wires and his three-year-old son Ramon. Humphreys had just moved with his family across the country to California to co-found a navigation startup based on GPS. (It was later acquired by Apple.) The startup job took up most of his time, but the reason for the wires on the beige carpet, plugged into a spread of laptops, switchboards, and radios, was pure curiosity. Humphreys and a college friend...
June 13, 2026 - 06:30 | Katherine Dunn | Walrus
It would be premature to grant a conditional discharge to an Ontario man who terrorized the grandparents of one of two Indiana girls murdered in 2017 by calling them more than 30 times to say the dead girls had been seen in Canada a year after the killings and that their deaths were a hoax, according to the Ontario Review Board (ORB). The eighth graders — Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14 — were killed near the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Ind., on Feb. 13, 2017. Their bodies were discovered the next day with their throats slit. Jeffrey Keddy, who called himself “the...
June 13, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
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June 13, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
