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November 10, 2025 - 07:06 | | CBC News - Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada’s controversial ruling against mandatory-minimum jail sentences for some child-pornography crimes has shone a harsh spotlight on how the top court weighs the law in such cases.The 5-4 decision on Oct. 31 – with Chief Justice Richard Wagner co-writing the dissent – led a range of political leaders across the country to lambaste the ruling.
November 10, 2025 - 07:00 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
A woman from the U.K. was hoping this Remembrance Day would bring closure after a nearly decade-long search for her estranged father’s grave led her to a cemetery outside of Winnipeg. Instead, she's now trying to reach an agreement with a funeral home company after his grave was found empty last year.
November 10, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Good morning. The BBC has been thrown into turmoil after allegations of bias in the broadcaster’s coverage. More on that below, plus what to expect from COP30 talks and the G20 summit. Let’s get to it.TOP STORY
November 10, 2025 - 06:44 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
In 2017, HMCS Chicoutimi undertook a dangerous and difficult assignment. For months, the Canadian submarine operated as part of an international task force enforcing sanctions against North Korea. The mission demanded long stretches of silently listening and watching as ships moved along the coast. From this vantage point, Chicoutimi gathered intelligence on vessels suspected of carrying contraband and cued surface warships to intercept them.
The risks were real. North Korea’s navy had fired at, and even sunk, South Korean naval patrols in these waters. For the Royal Canadian Navy,...
November 10, 2025 - 06:30 | Peter Jones | Walrus
On May 4, 1783, my ancestor, William Fraser, landed in Shelburne after a nine-day sail from New York City, part of a fleet of thirty ships carrying about 3,000 desperate Loyalists to Nova Scotia.
Fraser, born in Scotland, worked in the engineering department in New York, but he, his four brothers, and their families had to flee revolutionary mobs that were confiscating property and tarring and feathering the war’s losers.
Shelburne was overcrowded with the displaced—both Black and white—living on rations from the Crown while they urgently cut down trees to build houses for themselves...
November 10, 2025 - 06:29 | Stephen Maher | Walrus
