Unpublished Newswire
A New York billionaire who is an avid supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump says he is helping fund the legal battle by a British Columbia ostrich farm against an order to cull their flock of about 400 birds after an avian flu outbreak.John Catsimatidis says he and a friend have contributed about US$35,000 to the legal fight by Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood in B.C.’s Interior, to stop the cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
August 27, 2025 - 06:55 | Ashley Joannou | The Globe and Mail
For decades, stores like Leon’s, K Mart, and Zellers offered layaway: a no-interest, pay-in-pieces system where you picked out an item, the store held it, and you chipped away at the cost over weeks or months. Families used it to stretch toward something special—a couch, a TV, Christmas gifts. Eventually, in the 1980s, credit cards took over, and stores grew tired of holding merchandise. But until then, purchases were a pact, a structured ritual of financial restraint. The store trusted that you’d follow through; you trusted that the item would be waiting.
The contours of that...
August 27, 2025 - 06:30 | Vass Bednar | Walrus
Gregg "Scooter" Korek first started working for the midway decades ago as a teenager, thinking it would just be a summer gig.
August 27, 2025 - 06:23 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
WestJet’s argument that passengers shouldn’t be compensated for any flight disruptions stemming from safety issues, regardless of the circumstances that led to the problem, did not fly with the Federal Court of Appeal.
The carrier was appealing a decision from the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) that awarded Owen Lareau $1,000 because his WestJet flight from Regina to Toronto was cancelled less than an hour before departure on July 18, 2021, due to a crew shortage.
“The appellant’s proposed interpretation of the safety category would effectively defeat the consumer protection...
August 27, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
From the moment Rheanna Laderoute was born, her older sister Kassandra Costabile doted on and protected her. Eight years younger, Ms. Laderoute was deeply empathetic, with a quiet grace and an offbeat sense of humour, Ms. Costabile recalls. And she remembers fondly how Ms. Laderoute could pull off silly sound effects and voices that no one else could – always making her laugh, even when she was upset.Ms. Laderoute adored her older sister, too. Ms. Costabile once asked her sister why she would sometimes tell their mother about a relationship or school problem, but not her. “You’re the one...
August 27, 2025 - 06:00 | Wendy Glauser | The Globe and Mail
Several neighbours had already passed by the spot where he had crashed without noticing him on Aug. 10 in Sydenham, north of Kingston, Ont., before he was finally rescued.
August 27, 2025 - 05:45 | Jacquelyn LeBel | Global News - Canada
