Unpublished Newswire
The federal government says it’s “looking into” what appears to be the accidental removal of a privacy provision in its Online Streaming Act.Earlier this week, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist outlined in a blog post that a privacy provision in the legislation was removed only two months after the bill became law, through an amendment contained in another bill.
August 29, 2025 - 07:41 | Anja Karadeglija | The Globe and Mail
Statistics Canada is set to release gross domestic product data for the month of June and the second quarter as a whole today. The agency’s early estimates for GDP in the second quarter had been for zero growth as trade uncertainty and tariffs weigh on business and consumer sentiment.
August 29, 2025 - 07:03 | | The Globe and Mail
Canadian child-protection advocates are urging the administrators of the network that underpins much of the dark web to block access to millions of child-abuse images and the thousands of websites that post them. They are warning that pedophile material is proliferating on the anonymous web, including tips on how to abuse minors and evade the police, which is jeopardizing the safety of huge numbers of children worldwide.
August 29, 2025 - 07:00 | Marie Woolf | The Globe and Mail
Cécile Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets—the world’s first to survive infancy and into adulthood—died on July 28 in Montreal, at the age of ninety-one. Celebrated writer Mavis Gallant wrote this acerbic essay about the tourist and media frenzy around the five sisters, after visiting them at their Northern Ontario home for the Montreal Standard in 1949, when the girls were fifteen. Cécile’s sister Annette is now the only living of the five.
“Five Not So Carefree Teenagers”
August 9, 1949
Canada’s best-known tourist attraction, the Dionne quintuplets are a paying...
August 29, 2025 - 06:30 | Mavis Gallant | Walrus
We lost a day on the flight and forgot it was St. Valentine’s and when we ditched our stuff and ran to catch the last light on the Acropolis, the first thing I saw other than the Parthenon was the red heart-shaped balloon. It flew solo over the city, trailing a ribbon just released, and I got weirdly dizzy, like it was me rising up forever from the ever-shrinking earth. But Matty was saying what she knew about those famous columns glowing butter-yellow through the restoration scaffolds, and words like doric and ionic brought me back to where I was. I felt suddenly wonderful. This is why...
August 29, 2025 - 06:29 | Michael LaPointe | Walrus
Good morning. As one of the few news organizations in the world with a contributing reporter on the ground in Gaza, sharing these stories is a unique privilege and a challenge – and today we take you behind the scenes on our coverage. More on that below, plus improving international relations and preparing for back to school. But first: Today’s headlinesThe Supreme Court declines to hear the appeal of the Sauble Beach, Ont. land claim, granting the Saugeen First Nation to keep a stretch of coastline after a 30-year legal battleThe law firm that took on big tobacco is awarded an...
August 29, 2025 - 06:27 | Hamida Ghafour | The Globe and Mail
