Unpublished Newswire
Some startup companies say they're calling Monday a wash and giving staff a paid day off in order to smooth out the mid-week quirk and create a long weekend.
June 28, 2025 - 08:53 | Lasia Kretzel | Global News - Ottawa
A warming climate is driving a rise in Lyme disease and the introduction of lesser-known tick-borne diseases, public health specialists say.
June 28, 2025 - 08:22 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
A dual citizen of Italy and Ethiopia who brought her two Italian children to Canada more than a decade back, using aliases and falsely claiming they were Eritrean citizens subject to religious persecution, has won another chance for her family to stay here.
The Refugee Protection Division, which weighs refugee claims in Canada, initially accepted the 2014 claims of Tsegereda Tsegaye Wigebral and her two kids, Nobel and Melody Esayas Fisihatsion, now 19 and 17 respectively. But it nullified their refugee status and rejected their claim in December 2022 after learning their story was...
June 28, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
There is a growing backlash after the RCMP announced this month it is investigating whether Canadian citizens involved with clashes in or around Israel were in contravention of this country’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
Amid outcry from Jewish groups, the force said it wasn’t a criminal probe, but to “collect, preserve and assess information” for potential future prosecutions.
Foreign governments, such as Belgium and Brazil, have also opened investigations into their own citizens who served with the Israel Defense Forces.
Lt.-Col. (ret.) Maurice Hirsch, director of...
June 28, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
Toronto City Council had a chance this week to take a clear, practical step toward solving its housing crisis.Surprise: It did not. Instead, the city’s leaders cowered before the most reactionary elements in local politics and seemed ready to waste $60-million in the process.
June 28, 2025 - 07:00 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
I n the weeks leading up to my breakup, I slept a meagre three hours a night. There was a thickness in the air that knew the planes of my life were about to shift, and it was keeping me awake. The night it happened, I slept next to my mother. She awoke to my frustrated sobs around four in the morning and placed a warm hand on my cheek. We lay there in silence for about an hour, until I finally fell asleep. The emotions came crashing back when I opened my eyes a couple hours later. I took the day off work, dragged myself home, and turned on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I fell in...
June 28, 2025 - 06:30 | Maia Wyman | Walrus
