Unpublished Newswire
Increasing global uncertainty is motivating Canadians to enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), according to federal Minister of National Defence, David McGuinty.
“Applications are up” 13 per cent in the past eight months, McGuinty told
Politico
on Tuesday.
That number has been...
February 26, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
By the time the Class of 2026 convenes this spring, the world will already know all sorts of personal details about these mostly 25-and-under university and college grads, things no one would have even thought to ask about the generations that preceded them.
Parents began trumpeting their arrivals on social media beginning in 2004, with baby steps and kindergarten performances chronicled on Facebook and, later, Instagram. Security cameras captured their first toddle into a grocery store. Today, they, and the rest of us, can be photographed and videoed without consent or even knowledge...
February 26, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
February 26, 2026 - 07:00 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
February 26, 2026 - 06:58 | Brenna Owen | The Globe and Mail
In December 2025, United States president Donald Trump struck a deal that—uncharacteristically for such a spectacle-driven politician—barely registered among the general public.
The agreement committed the Belarusian government to releasing 123 political prisoners, a significant concession from one of Europe’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. In return, Washington agreed to lift sanctions on Belarus’s potash exports—sanctions it escalated after the country’s rigged 2020 election and later expanded, in 2022, when Belarus allowed Russia to use its territory to invade Ukraine.
Why...
February 26, 2026 - 06:31 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
My sister Shauna was listed for a liver transplant, the only potentially curative treatment for her end-stage liver disease, in 2003. All along, I believed that she was going to receive a successful transplant and be able to start a new life. I was attuned to the stories of those fortunate recipients who were able to get one and thrive, and I believed my sister would belong to that cast of heroes and survivors.
But during her eighteen-month wait for the “gift of life,” her health precipitously declined, and she died in an intensive care unit. Redemption was out of reach for her.
One...
February 26, 2026 - 06:30 | Anita Slominska | Walrus
