More workers at the Ontario Science Centre are set to lose their jobs as the abruptly shuttered east-Toronto attraction contemplates a move to a temporary home, potentially in a neighbouring city.Dexterra Group, which provided cleaning services for the attraction, sent a letter to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union last week, saying 28 employees will lose their jobs by Oct. 31.
September 12, 2024 - 07:36 | Liam Casey | The Globe and Mail
A 15-year-old has died after a single-vehicle collision in Stellarton, N.S., early Thursday morning.
September 12, 2024 - 07:30 | Natalie Lombard | CTV News - Canada
Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard ATD-T is discussing how much it could raise the offer price to buy Japan’s Seven & i Holdings, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources familiar with Couche-Tard’s internal talks.Couche-Tard earlier this week said it was willing to continue the buyout talks after Seven & i rejected its $38.5-billion offer.
September 12, 2024 - 06:54 | | The Globe and Mail
On the site of an old
injury, buried deep
under the closed skin
an itch begins,
an itch
the scratch of which
may yield a poem
or a theorem, or unearth
the seed of a great invention
that will unseat
all our assumptions
and rewind Time.
A small insistent itch
under a patch of newer skin
that doesn’t match—
something inside that wants
to birth, or hatch,
work its way out
from under a healing
that was incomplete.
So it can all begin
again, from scratch.The post A Festering first appeared on The Walrus.
September 12, 2024 - 06:30 | Robyn Sarah | Walrus
Back in May 2019, then US president Donald Trump approached the podium in the Rose Garden at the White House and delivered what would turn out to be one of his more weirdly normal speeches. The topic was immigration reform, and it was weird precisely because it didn’t veer off into Trump’s usual race baiting—no rapist Mexicans or terrorist Arabs—though there was still plenty of fear mongering.
Trump railed against an immigration system that he said was too random, relying almost entirely on family-sponsored immigration—so-called chain migration—and visa...
September 12, 2024 - 06:30 | Adnan R. Khan | Walrus
More workers at the Ontario Science Centre are set to lose their jobs as the abruptly shuttered Toronto attraction contemplates a move to a temporary home.
September 12, 2024 - 06:24 | | Global News - Canada