Unpublished Newswire
Calgary’s firefighters union is trying to prevent what it calls a dangerous housing trend — in which multi-storey housing buildings are being constructed with only one stairwell — from making its way here.
November 3, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
It’s raining in Ottawa as I write this, and it’s cold. It’s not a great time to play chicken with the future of the country, but here we are. The budget is tomorrow, and rumblings in the press suggest the government could fall over it. The opposition parties are weighing their options. Everybody is making demands, but there’s no ideal world, no theodicy, in which all the pressures and tensions and inconsistencies may be resolved—lower and higher taxes, more and less social program spending, government intervention to address the climate crisis, and government abdication from that role....
November 3, 2025 - 06:30 | David Moscrop | Walrus
During the August long weekend, a Canadian politician sat in a Smitty’s diner, recording a selfie video. He talked about a waitress he met who worked at least sixty hours a week but still finds that her money “vanishes into thin air.” This, he noted, is “what I see everywhere. People telling me that they’re working harder and harder, and their money just evaporates.”
It sounds like something the leader of the New Democratic Party might say. The story is about ordinary Canadians stretched thin. It’s a story of the working class. But no, the kitchen-table parable was delivered by Pierre...
November 3, 2025 - 06:29 | Colin Horgan | Walrus
Good morning. As fans, new and old, are still recovering from the Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series loss, we are turning our attention to the week to come. Trade is back in focus as Ottawa prepares to deliver the budget. Let’s get to it.TOP STORY
November 3, 2025 - 06:21 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
The Ottawa Senators are living dangerously. Read More
November 3, 2025 - 06:00 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen
My first job out of university was with the then-new Canadian Food Inspection Agency in the late 1990s, which was an amalgamation of staff from three other departments. The consolidation of the country’s food, animal safety and plant health into one place had produced some artifacts, including the quiet man in the corner on the second floor of CFIA HQ who didn’t seem to belong to anyone’s team. Nobody had a clue what he did. Read More
November 3, 2025 - 06:00 | Aaron Hutchins | Ottawa Citizen
