Unpublished Newswire
Montreal is hoping to redeem itself during the upcoming Grand Prix weekend after last year's event became a source of embarrassment.
June 5, 2025 - 08:07 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
More than 2,200 Ontarians died from opioids last year, a 15 per cent decrease from 2023, newly released data from the Office of the Chief Coroner shows.
June 5, 2025 - 07:56 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
More than 2,200 Ontarians died from opioids last year, a 15 per cent decrease from 2023, newly released data from the Office of the Chief Coroner shows.
June 5, 2025 - 07:56 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Roughly three months into his third consecutive majority mandate, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s championing of Canada in its trade war with the U.S. has helped his star shine brighter. But a majority of poll respondents say the province is on the wrong track.
The latest Ontario Report Card from Leger found that almost half of residents (47 per cent) — and more than half of all men (52 per cent) — approved of the work Ford has done, compared to a third of respondents for NDP Leader Marit Stiles and Liberal boss Bonnie Crombie (33 per cent each). The pollster said Ford’s favourability was...
June 5, 2025 - 07:00 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
In 2011, the Government of Canada contracted American tech giant IBM to build a new system to manage its payments to civil servants. Beset by bugs, delays, and cost overruns, the new Phoenix pay system was finally unveiled in 2016. And it was a disaster. Civil servants were overpaid, underpaid, or not paid at all. The boondoggle racked up $3.5 billion in additional costs and forced the government to draw up plans to purchase an entirely new pay system. That, too, has been delayed.
In 2020, Ottawa launched ArriveCAN: a nimble, Swiss Army knife of an app to allow travellers to submit...
June 5, 2025 - 06:30 | Justin Ling | Walrus
As a Quebecer, I have always had an ambivalent, if not uneasy, relationship to Canada. The province’s deep sense of being distinct, of speaking a language most of the rest of the country doesn’t always bother to understand, marked me. Even as much of my early life in my family’s Montreal home was lived in Italian, we often consumed culture in French. After school, I watched Passe-Partout, Bobino, and a series starring a glum clown called Sol. My father, who arrived in the city in 1967, was never fully comfortable in English, and preferred his blockbusters dubbed. That meant Bruce Willis...
June 5, 2025 - 06:29 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
