
When I began reporting on the Canadian military’s halting embrace of drone technology for The Walrus, one conversation impressed me. Lieutenant General Michael Wright spoke with a candour and urgency I don’t usually encounter in covering defence and intelligence. Appointed commander of the Canadian Army in 2024, Lieutenant General Wright has been a central voice on how the country’s military must modernize to remain credible. In our exchange, which occurred in June, he made a powerful case for drones as fundamental to that rebuild. There was a clarity to his proposals that felt too...
November 5, 2025 - 06:30 | Wesley Wark | Walrus
Prince Harry is set to begin a two-day visit to Toronto to attend events supporting veterans and the military community ahead of Remembrance Day.
November 5, 2025 - 06:30 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Four people gather around a desk surrounded by stars and darkness. There is eerie music playing. One of the men in the group wants to spread a virus that would eradicate an entire population of robots. Another says: “Genocide? So that’s what we’re about now?”
I was hooked. I was eleven, and the show was Battlestar Galactica, which depicts how machines called Cylons, who look like humans and were created by humans, destroyed most of human civilization. I began tuning in each week and was soon renting past episodes from the library or Blockbuster (this was 2006). When I had watched them...
November 5, 2025 - 06:29 | Khawla Nakua | Walrus
The U.S. government shutdown has reached a critical milestone – the longest in history – as the impasse between Republicans and Democrats pushed into its 36th day on Wednesday.It is unclear how long the shutdown will last as federal workers miss another paycheque heading into a busy holiday season at American airports.
November 5, 2025 - 06:22 | Kelly Geraldine Malone | The Globe and Mail
Good morning. The new federal budget offers a leaner public service, a louder military and a much bigger deficit – more on that below, along with Montreal’s transit strike and People’s Sexiest Man Alive. But first:Today’s headlinesZohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral raceIn Syria, the race to rebuild from civil war frustrates efforts to unearth the truthConservative MP Chris d’Entremont crosses the floor to the Liberals
November 5, 2025 - 06:16 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
If there is anything Lansdowne has taught us over the past decade, it is that we should be very skeptical of any financial projections from the city. Lansdowne 1.0 did not meet its financial targets, yet the very same people who gave us the failed ‘waterfall’ scheme are asking us once again to trust new revenue projections from them. We should not. Read More
November 5, 2025 - 06:00 | Aaron Hutchins | Ottawa Citizen




