Unpublished Newswire
Timothy Rohan headed out from his home in Holyoke, Mass., eight years ago on an unlikely mission.
The construction worker planned to shoplift supermarket bags of shrimp, then sell the purloined shellfish to bodegas in the city’s gritty downtown. The cash proceeds would feed his desperate need for fentanyl.
The scheme ended abruptly when two police cruisers pulled up beside him, the officers ordering the young man onto the pavement and locking him in handcuffs. A few hours later, guards hauled Rohan from a cell in the local courthouse and brought him before a judge – though he had...
November 16, 2025 - 07:00 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
Amanda Shaw has worked at St. Lawrence College’s Cornwall campus for more than a decade, long enough to have lived through the international student boom. And now the bust.When she started, foreign enrolment was low. Then it seemed to skyrocket. The small campus on the shores of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Ontario started to bustle; the college ran budget surpluses and introduced innovative programs. Even during the chaos of COVID-19 the numbers continued to grow. The same thing was happening at colleges across the province and in other parts of the country.
November 16, 2025 - 07:00 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
Kingsville is discontinuing boat rescues to cut costs, prompting concern from safety advocates who say reducing local response capacity puts boaters at risk.
November 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Ottawa
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Coke is it” was a popular TV ad for the famed soda back in 1982, featuring teens singing Coca-Cola’s praises around a piano. It was around that same time when the company started using high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) instead of cane sugar in their main product — and would soon launch the flop known as “New Coke” — so a better catchphrase might have been, “Which Coke is it?”
Fast forward 43 years, and for U.S. and Canadian consumers of Coke, it’s primarily the fresh taste of HFCS that they’re enjoying, unless they’ve paid a premium for Mexican Coke, which is made...
November 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Tracy Moran | National Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Coke is it” was a popular TV ad for the famed soda back in 1982, featuring teens singing Coca-Cola’s praises around a piano. It was around that same time when the company started using high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) instead of cane sugar in their main product — and would soon launch the flop known as “New Coke” — so a better catchphrase might have been, “Which Coke is it?”
Fast forward 43 years, and for U.S. and Canadian consumers of Coke, it’s primarily the fresh taste of HFCS that they’re enjoying, unless they’ve paid a premium for Mexican Coke, which is made...
November 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Tracy Moran | National Post
Recent data from both sides of the border show that Canadians are travelling to the U.S. in much smaller numbers, thanks to an ongoing trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of annexation,
more intrusive border crossing requirements
and a weak Canadian dollar.
But U.S. tourist...
November 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
