Unpublished Newswire
TEL AVIV – Former IDF spokesman Alon Penzel is embarking on a Canada-wide speaking tour in coming weeks. He exhales deeply when asked why: he felt he had to, given the level of Oct. 7 denialism, minimalization and ignorance two years into the Gaza war.
“To speak up for those whose voice was taken,” he says; those who were murdered “but also to those tortured, raped, wounded, held hostage, abused; to the victims’ families and the massacre’s survivors, who want their story and the truth out, but some of them are still too traumatized, mentally unprepared, to share these stories...
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
On Thursday afternoons, Dina McGovern is usually tucked in a corner of the neonatal intensive care unit at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, humming a nursery rhyme and cuddling a baby.The 76-year-old retired lactation consultant and grandmother of five quips she’s not much of a singer, but she likes to croon melodies for the babies she snuggles through a hospital volunteer program.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
Daniel Jutras, rector of the University of Montreal, says universities are under fire and underfunded. The former McGill University law dean, who has spent about four decades in academia and who served as senior counsel to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, says the public is more skeptical of expertise than ever before.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
Bear-dar is designed to survey the landscape and detect anything that moves. It can be used by communities as an early warning system, alerting them to a nearby polar bear.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Garnet Lee shakes his head slowly, in disbelief, as the door buzzes again, signalling the arrival of another customer.“We just thought it was a noodle factory,” he said. “We never knew the effect we had on people.”
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
Kris Stewart loved her cat Bear. A lot. So much so that when he died in 2022, she raced to store his DNA.“He was a very intelligent cat and mother earth wasn’t finished with his genes,” she said.In March, 2024, she welcomed two Bear clones to her home in Kelowna, B.C.: Bear Bear and Honey Bear. His feline magic was hers once again.
January 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
