Unpublished Newswire
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump and his campaign to bring Canada under Washington’s thumb. And yet this week he delivered a diatribe that could have come straight from the mouth of the U.S. President.The object of Mr. Ford’s wrath was the judiciary. Like Mr. Trump, who has been attacking judges and dodging court orders, he finds some judges simply infuriating. He said those “terrible, terrible bleeding-heart judges” are too soft on crime.
May 3, 2025 - 07:30 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
During World War II, the United States was desperate to develop the nuclear bomb ahead of Germany and maintain a technological advantage. To do so, they needed to produce plutonium, and lots of it. They would produce that plutonium at a site in Hanford, Washington, due to its proximity to the Columbia River and its distance from people, given the concern over an accidental explosion. The plutonium manufactured there would be used in the first nuclear bomb ever detonated. Over the following forty years, the site would produce two-thirds of the plutonium in the US nuclear arsenal.
As...
May 3, 2025 - 06:30 | Nicholas Chesterley | Walrus
When Simon McKay’s high-school guidance counsellor told him about a new class where students learn skilled trades by building a house from the ground up, which is then donated to a member of a nearby First Nation, the teenager was eager to enroll.By his own admission, sitting at a desk while a teacher lectures from the blackboard has never been the way the 18-year-old learns best, and so the new class had an instant appeal.
May 3, 2025 - 06:30 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
King Charles will visit Canada to deliver the throne speech on May 27. This will be the first time a reigning monarch delivers the speech in Canada since 1977.
The visit will mark the King’s 20th trip to Canada. The last visit was in May 2022. Queen Camilla will also be in attendance.
According to the Government of...
May 3, 2025 - 06:00 | National Post | National Post
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May 3, 2025 - 06:00 | Kayla Thompson | Walrus
OTTAWA — As the federal election campaign approached its final days, the Conservative war room couldn’t help but dwell on a brutal paradox.
Inside the confines of the office where the campaign was headquartered in downtown Ottawa, insiders say the overwhelming feeling was that the campaign couldn’t have gone much more smoothly. Despite mounting criticism from pundits and even fellow Conservatives, everyone on the campaign seemed to be...
May 3, 2025 - 06:00 | Simon Tuck , Stuart Thomson | National Post
