
It’s been seven years since Edmontonians last lined the city’s downtown streets to celebrate with a Pride parade, and organizers say it’s back.LGBTQ+ community members and allies are set to turn out for the Saturday afternoon parade.
August 22, 2025 - 06:55 | Aaron Sousa | The Globe and Mail
The World Health Organization says climate change-driven heat is a “public health crisis” for workers around the globe and experts say Canada is no exception. The WHO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released a joint report on Friday saying outdoor workers in construction, farming and other physically demanding jobs are at especially high risk of heat stroke, dehydration, cardiovascular damage and kidney dysfunction.
August 22, 2025 - 06:42 | Nicole Ireland | The Globe and Mail
If Ottawa wants to know how many machinists Saskatoon will need next spring, it waits for Statistics Canada to process another monthly Wage and Vacancy Survey. Meanwhile, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn already knows, because the recruiters paid for their ads last night.
We have allowed a handful of American platforms to become the undisputed stewards of Canada’s real-time labour market pulse, even though that data now informs immigration targets, reskilling funds, and billion-dollar industrial bets. The worst part is that we’ve come to accept a system where private platforms hoard core...
August 22, 2025 - 06:30 | Vass Bednar | Walrus
The government previously introduced changes to the registration rules governing physicians and nurses in Ontario, allowing them to work while their qualifications transfer.
August 22, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Canada
The government previously introduced changes to the registration rules governing physicians and nurses in Ontario, allowing them to work while their qualifications transfer.
August 22, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
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Three blind Canadians regained their sight this year and three more are in line to recover theirs in the coming months, all of them thanks to their own tooth being attached to their eyeball.
While that may sound macabre to some, the highly specialized ophthalmological procedure initially devised in the 1960s has been nothing short of miraculous for the hundreds of patients who’ve undergone it, many of whom have been blessed with sight for decades afterward.
The osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis operation (OOKP), often aptly referred to...
August 22, 2025 - 06:00 | Kenn Oliver | National Post