Unpublished Newswire
Have you ever been asked to really give’r but ended up in a gong show? Gone to buy a freezie and some Cheezies only to be dinged with the GST? Gotten into a kerfuffle with an old winterer?You’ve been speaking Canadian. A collection of our national expressions with the fittingly unflashy title A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Third Edition has just been updated with more than a 100 words and phrases that are defiantly ours. The online publication by the University of British Columbia’s Department of English Language and Literatures goes way beyond “eh.”
July 5, 2025 - 08:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
Two officers with a U.S. task force, one of them a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the other a detective with the New York City Police Department, had flown to the Czech Republic for the anticipated takedown of a man wanted in an extraordinary, politically sensitive murder-for-hire case.
The U.S. officers knew exactly when their target was to arrive in Prague on a flight from India and had given all the details to Czech authorities. International paperwork requesting the arrest and extradition to New York had already been sent for their wanted suspect: Nikhil...
July 5, 2025 - 07:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Experts say the bill, which cuts billions of tax credits for clean energy and electric vehicles, end a brief era where the U.S. and Canada were moving in the same direction.
July 5, 2025 - 07:00 | Sean Boynton | Global News - Canada
Researchers working on treatments and cures for long COVID are closely watching newly signed Winnipeg Jets forward Jonathan Toews's healing journey. Toews is returning to the NHL this coming season after a two-year absence, as he worked to manage debilitating long COVID symptoms.
July 5, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
“Okay, you guys wanna hear a song about a … trade war? Pfffft.” No, Sebastian Grainger, drummer of brilliantly abrasive Toronto punk-dance duo Death from Above 1979. They did not.
July 5, 2025 - 07:00 | | The Globe and Mail
As obnoxious as he is, Donald Trump may actually be doing Canada some good. His demands are forcing this country to rethink bad ideas, question sacred cows and brace itself for the challenges of the future.Just this week, the U.S. President gave Prime Minister Mark Carney an excuse to jettison a wrong-headed tax on foreign tech giants. Because just about all of those giants are American, Washington has opposed it from the start, under Joe Biden’s administration as well as Mr. Trump’s. The heaps of money that were to flow to Ottawa from the tax would have come from the pockets of the...
July 5, 2025 - 07:00 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
