
April 1985
What have you gotten yourself into now,
indecisive daughter of dry land?
You, crossing Barkley Sound by Zodiac
with forty other pampered over-packers
and Mrs. Roberts, all in Helox slickers,
life preservers, olive Baffin boots,
chilled awake and soon to be bored to tears
(or puking fits or chants or bathroom fights
or Stoli under fizzing bunkbed lights)
by lectures on the lives of jellyfish
or barnacles or nudibranchs or squid.
You wish you chose the physics trip instead.
What’s with all the action at the Station,
all those films on salmon, salmon, salmon,
waiting, mating,...
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February 25, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
The government said the 'information continues to be tracked in real time,' but appears to have ended reports summarizing trends and broader patterns.
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Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director Paul Haggis, who has been behind some of Hollywood’s most acclaimed Oscar-winning films, paid nearly $2 million to a woman who accused him of raping her after a film premiere.
Notification of the payment as full settlement in the case, filed in a New York court on Friday, shows Haggis paid his accuser, Haleigh Breest, an amount significantly less than the US$10 million jury verdict against him in 2023.
Breest’s lawyer did not respond to several requests for comment.
Haggis’s lawyer for the settlement process, Imran Ansari, said Haggis...
February 25, 2026 - 06:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post





