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ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Gigi and Nick are stoking a fire on the right bank of Twelve Mile Creek. It is the sunset hour in St. Catharines, Ont., but the atmosphere is damp and heavy from a November morning rain.
There is not another soul in sight, down here in the riverside parklands below a street called Gale Crescent, a few blocks east of downtown. For kindling, Gigi has scavenged an armful of twigs from the municipal shrubbery. She stacks it inside a makeshift hearth of flagstones and tries to get it to catch, but the twigs are wet and will not accept the flame from Nick’s pocket...
December 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Allen Abel | National Post
At least five Canadian cities are vying to host a new defence-oriented world bank that could create up to 3,500 jobs, the National Post has learned.
Vancouver, Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal are all in the running to host the headquarters of the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), according to a well-placed source.
The DSRB, to be established by the end of 2026, will serve 40 member countries, which include NATO members and their Indo-Pacific allies.
“If the vote were today, the headquarters would be here (in Canada),” the source said Wednesday. “The vote won’t be...
December 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Court documents show that the 14-storey Versante Hotel was instead bought by a Hong Kong purchaser in October for the lower price of $51.5 million.
December 11, 2025 - 06:52 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
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December 11, 2025 - 06:33 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
Lately, it seems everyone in higher education has been handed the same essay prompt: describe how AI is destroying your classroom. In The New Yorker, literature professor Hua Hsu considers the demise of the term paper while shadowing an undergraduate who systematically forges his coursework. Writing for this publication, Troy Jollimore mourns the link between writing and thinking, as students use the technology to deprive themselves of the critical spirit philosophy has to offer. ChatGPT’s style is spreading like an infection: symptoms include em dashes, three-point lists, the verb “...
December 11, 2025 - 06:30 | Amanda Perry | Walrus
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December 11, 2025 - 06:29 | Jeet Heer | Walrus
