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David Grenon started Canada’s national anthem ahead of Game 6 of the World Series with a bright smile and booming voice before making a gesture for the crowd to join in. And did they ever.
By the end, after the awkward flip from French back to English at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, row after row, tier after tier of Blue Jays fans were knocking it out of the park. It wasn’t the usual tepid muttering or vague mouthing of words, but actual singing, with gusto, of a rousing rendition of O Canada.
It was so well received it didn’t make headlines.
It doesn’t always go that way.
Not...
November 12, 2025 - 07:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is making a Toronto stop during the fall 2025 tour to support her new book, 107 Days.
A hardcover copy of the book sells for
$42.00
. But if you want a ticket to her Nov. 16 appearance at Toronto’s Meridian Hall, you’ll pay significantly more.
It’s...
November 12, 2025 - 07:00 | National Post Staff | National Post
Tessa knew she was being watched. After ten minutes of keyboard or mouse inactivity, a timer would appear on her transcription software, asking her to select a reason for the pause. A medical transcriptionist in Atlantic Canada, Tessa (who has been granted a pseudonym to avoid any conflict with her employer) works remotely, spending her days alone with doctors’ voices and diagnostic codes. Fusion, the platform she uses, logged her inactivity in detail, and Microsoft Teams displayed an “Away” status just five minutes after her last keystroke. Her employer had set a target: transcribe at...
November 12, 2025 - 06:30 | Mihika Agarwal | Walrus
While it could provide a decent living, there was never any serious money to be made in book publishing. The shadow of insufficient cash flow constantly hung over the passions of acquiring the next book. Geoff Feilding, then executive editor at McClelland & Stewart, cautioned me about this early in my career. I wasn’t listening very intently.
In 1970, James Douglas and I founded the Vancouver-based Douglas & McIntyre. It was considered the poster child for a successful Canadian independent publishing house for a long time. But for any book publisher dependent on the market,...
November 12, 2025 - 06:29 | Scott McIntyre | Walrus
Good morning. Once you read the fine print, the federal budget’s housing plan is far from a generational investment – more on that below, along with the U.S. military buildup near Venezuela and a flood of A.I.-written resumes. But first: Today’s headlinesMark Carney plans to add mining and energy projects to his government’s major projects list, sources sayThe U.S. House returns to Washington for a vote to end the longest shutdown in historyU of T hires three top U.S. scholars and plans for 100 new postdocs
November 12, 2025 - 06:25 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand opened a meeting of the Group of Seven countries by calling for continued collaboration on many of the world's problems, from Russia's war in Ukraine to the fragile ceasefire in Gaza.
November 12, 2025 - 06:07 | | The Globe and Mail
