Unpublished Newswire
Lacking money to purchase Christmas gifts one yuletide, Sarah Kramer and a friend produced a photocopied, handmade magazine filled with sassy writing and vegetarian recipes.The punky, samizdat-like publication was so popular with friends and family that they produced several hundred to be sold to the public at punk and hardcore concerts. When that zine almost immediately sold out, they took the idea to a Vancouver book publisher.
June 16, 2025 - 18:00 | Tom Hawthorn | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Conservatives will be supporting the Liberal government’s internal trade and major projects bill that is expected to be passed before Canada Day, revealed Leo Housakos, the leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
Housakos confirmed the news as he was questioning Minister of Transport and Internal Trade Chrystia Freeland during a pre-study of the bill on Monday afternoon.
“Obviously, the Conservative opposition in the House (of Commons) supports this bill, as the opposition does in this chamber,” he said, before criticizing current Liberals who were in his party’s view a “...
June 16, 2025 - 17:44 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
Dr. Ron Taylor, a two-time World Series-winning pitcher and longtime Toronto Blue Jays team physician, has died. He was 87.
June 16, 2025 - 17:41 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Webequie First Nation is leading an environmental and impact assessment of the Webequie Supply Road that would connect to mining exploration activities in the Ring of Fire.
June 16, 2025 - 17:22 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Another police probe in southern Ontario connected a violent crime wave to the tow truck industry, this time a large criminal network accused of extortion, fraud, shootings and arson.
Peel Regional Police said more than $4.2 million in assets were seized and 18 people were arrested, including two men alleged to be the bosses behind a network involved in two streams of criminality: one dedicated to extortion and violence, and the other to systematic fraud through staged car collisions rooted in the towing industry.
Of the 18 charged, almost half were already on a form of judicial...
June 16, 2025 - 17:05 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
A union representing 30,000 health-care workers in Alberta is calling on Premier Danielle Smith’s government to reverse course and provide free COVID-19 vaccines to all front-line workers and any other Albertan who wants the shot.The Health Sciences Association of Alberta says that is the best way to protect patients, reduce hospitalizations, and keep the health-care system strong.
June 16, 2025 - 16:38 | Lisa Johnson | The Globe and Mail
