Unpublished Newswire

Good morning. Our annual guide to the books that captured, delighted and informed us is back. More on that below, and a window into the work that goes into it, plus news on Black Friday and solar storms. But first: Today’s headlinesAlberta and Ottawa have agreed to a transformational energy accord, but British Columbia, environmentalists and some Indigenous leaders still have concerns Thirty-five years after a man was found guilty of murdering a 10-year-old girl, the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled it a miscarriage of justice Netflix’s The Stringer documentary challenges the history of...

An Ontario man who admitted to participating in two ‘sham’ marriages to help Indian women immigrate to Canada in return for services and cash has failed in his efforts to prove he’s married to the mother of his three children. Amratpal Singh Sidhu asked Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice for a declaration that he’s legally married to Amandeep Kaur. She was looking for a judge to say the opposite. “He openly admitted to participating in two ‘sham’ marriages, for financial gain and in an effort to dupe Canadian immigration authorities,” Justice Frances Wood wrote in a recent decision...