Unpublished Newswire
Canada’s senior public servant has invited his provincial and territorial counterparts to apply for top secret-level security clearance as a way of fostering “healthy, transparent dialogue” on foreign interference and other threats.In a July 11 letter to the heads of public services across the country, John Hannaford, clerk of the Privy Council, said that obtaining the clearance would allow the Privy Council Office and other federal security agencies to offer regular, intelligence-informed briefings.The briefings would support the public service leaders’ efforts to advise provincial and...
September 19, 2024 - 07:01 | Jim Bronskill | The Globe and Mail
Optimism can be a useful coping mechanism for cancer patients, specialists say, or unwelcome pressure to smile the disease away
September 19, 2024 - 07:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
A 33-day provincial election campaign is expected to officially get started today in New Brunswick.Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs has said he plans to visit Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy this morning to have the legislature dissolved.
September 19, 2024 - 06:57 | | The Globe and Mail
Polls are set to soon open in the eastern Ontario riding of Bay of Quinte, where voters will pick their next representative in the provincial legislature.
September 19, 2024 - 06:33 | | Global News - Ottawa
Kevin Lambert’s last novel, Querelle of Roberval, ended with infanticide, necrophilia, cannibalism, and the ritualistic, livestreamed suicides of three teen delinquents suffering from HIV/AIDS. Readers familiar with it (and its only slightly less violent predecessor, You Will Love What You Have Killed ) may be anxious to know how, in his latest novel, the ante can possibly be upped.
In May Our Joy Endure, the Québécois writer shifts his attention from the factory-town horrors of the Saguenay (where he was born and raised) to the more subtle monstrosities that lurk in Montreal...
September 19, 2024 - 06:30 | André Forget | Walrus
Good morning. We crunch the numbers on Canada’s new mortgage rules – more on that below, along with (speaking of numbers) Rogers’ massive $4.7-billion takeover of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and Ottawa’s fresh cuts to temporary foreign residents. But first:Today’s headlinesIsrael bombs Lebanon and arrests an Israeli man in an alleged assassination plot against NetanyahuA CSIS report says India and China use illegal funds and disinformation to sway Canadian politiciansThe Canadian Medical Association apologizes for harms to Indigenous people
September 19, 2024 - 06:28 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
