Unpublished Newswire
March 20, 2026 - 06:50 | | The Globe and Mail
Ontario will not have a policy in place to publicly fund all medically necessary services from nurse practitioners by April 1, as ordered by the federal government, leaving some patients paying out of pocket for primary care.
March 20, 2026 - 06:38 | Allison Jones | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s immigration enforcement agency is ramping up deportations and is hoping to sustain an annual target of 20,000 over the next couple of years. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) deported 22,500 foreign nationals in 2025—the highest annual total in its history—and is currently removing approximately 400 individuals from Canada each week, an agency spokesperson told me in an interview.
Canada has a high number of migrants “without status” given the policy change in late 2023, when the country reversed course on immigration by tightening the criteria for admitting...
March 20, 2026 - 06:30 | George Abraham | Walrus
I didn’t have to read Frankenstein—there was no assignment, no looming exam. I didn’t own a copy of it. In fact, I had only known Frankenstein as a movie monster or Halloween costume, never as a book. But when I discovered that the novel actually emerged from the Romantic period, the same cultural movement that produced the majestic and sublime landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich or J. M. W. Turner, I was surprised and intrigued. I wanted to understand what made the story so lasting and how the so-called monster, who wasn’t even named Frankenstein, came to be...
March 20, 2026 - 06:29 | Maggie Yang | Walrus
EVEN BY THE standards of an industry defined by brutal contractions, the cuts at the Washington Post shocked. Roughly one-third of its newsroom was wiped out, with more than 300 positions eliminated. Entire departments, including sports and books, were disbanded and foreign bureaus scaled back. The layoffs rank among the largest in American newspaper history, a grim distinction for one of the country’s most storied dailies.
The paper described the move as part of a “strategic reset.” There’s no reason to doubt that. Journalism has been a miserable racket for decades. But it’s hard to...
March 20, 2026 - 06:28 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
Good morning. Superbugs are becoming increasingly drug resistant and the market for discovering new antibiotics is broken. But last year, a Canadian lab made not one, but three, major discoveries. More on their surprising success below, along with fraud charges and firearms. But first:
March 20, 2026 - 06:13 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
