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Good morning. The longest government shutdown in U.S. history may soon be over, but millions of Americans are still reeling from missed paycheques and lost food stamps – more on that below, along with Remembrance Day ceremonies and the end of Canada’s measles elimination status. But first: Today’s headlinesThe next round of major projects will be named Thursday, Carney saysSyria’s President meets with Trump at the White House to seek a permanent repeal of U.S. sanctionsOntario moves to block plans for a Toronto apartment complex near a Sanofi pharma plant
November 11, 2025 - 06:32 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
On a February morning, seventeen-year-old Maria Brik kissed her mother goodbye and set off for school. She never saw her home—or her homeland, Ukraine—again.
She recalled: “We were herded between two rows of armed soldiers and ordered on to open-backed trucks. We were taken to a camp full of other children and their teachers, surrounded by barbed wire.”
Maria Brik was my mother, and the year was 1943. When her parents heard their daughter had been snatched by one of Adolf Hitler’s armed squads, they rushed to the holding camp in a vain attempt to save her. Later, my grandfather would write, “...
November 11, 2025 - 06:30 | Halina St. James | Walrus
The program that lowers parents' child-care fees — now $19 a day on average in Ontario as an interim step toward $10 — had been set to expire March 31.
November 11, 2025 - 06:14 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
The program that lowers parents' child-care fees — now $19 a day on average in Ontario as an interim step toward $10 — had been set to expire March 31.
November 11, 2025 - 06:14 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
In the lead up to Remembrance Day, Canada’s military remains one of the most trusted institutions in the country.
A new poll by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies suggests that trust in Canada’s military sits at 75 per cent. Trust in police, meanwhile, remains close behind, at 71 per cent. Only 13 per cent of Canadians distrust the armed forces and police.
This comes as the Liberal government announced an additional $81.8 billion over five years to meet NATO’s recommended two per cent GDP target for defence spending.
Meanwhile, trust in the Supreme Court, and Canada’s...
November 11, 2025 - 06:00 | National Post | National Post
It was in the middle of a busy workday earlier this year when a WhatsApp message arrived from a U.K. number I didn’t recognize.
“Hi. My name is Andrew Clarke, and I live in London, U.K., and I am contacting you because my father, Capt. Derek Clarke, knew your grandfather in the Second World War. They were both in the 16th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry and both severely wounded at the battle of Sedjenane, Tunisia, on 27 February 1943.
“Not only that, but they shared the same two-bed ward in two hospitals in North Africa before being sent back to the U.K. after three months. My father...
November 11, 2025 - 06:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
