
At Issue this week: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new minority government faces multiple challenges, but where should he start? What’s next for the Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre? Plus, can the Green Party find a role on Parliament Hill?
May 2, 2025 - 06:58 | | CBC News - Canada
Police received a 911 call from a witness who saw the 43-year-old mother lying on the ground on the side of Gamma Street near Browns Line and Evans Avenue just before 3 a.m.
May 2, 2025 - 06:58 | Catherine McDonald | Global News - Ottawa
Good morning. We look at what we’ve learned about the tragedy in Vancouver’s Filipino community – more on that below, along with Ontario’s measles outbreak and a change on Donald Trump’s national security team. But first:Today’s headlinesConservative caucus will meet to select an interim opposition leader amid concerns that Liberals are trying to poach disgruntled MPsAlberta‘s Justice Minister has a personal relationship with a man whose businesses are tied to the province’s health authority investigationGeneral Motors cuts its profit outlook on tariff exposure risk while China signals...
May 2, 2025 - 06:38 | Wendy Cox | The Globe and Mail
Fuck Cheetos.
Go ahead, extend your orange-dusted middle finger at me. I have no interest in snacks that require anthropomorphic characters like Chester Cheetah to convince me to buy the product they shill. When all of us are wondering and worrying about buying Canuck-produced goods, I will happily forgo your American snack food, soda pop, sports drink, and bottled water conglomerate. I find the Cheetofication of foodstuffs—covering foods in Cheetos dust, like copper-dusted taco shells and flamin’ hot whatchamacallits or even, God help us, Cheetos-flavoured lip balm—to be...
May 2, 2025 - 06:31 | Simon Thibault | Walrus
I came to know grief from the bad breath—the dry mouth, the fatigue, the nausea. I was twenty-one when my father died of brain cancer. At first, the corporeal sensations were all I could manage. At the time, I wrote in my journal that grief felt like an infinite black ocean with no horizon: some days I drowned, some days I had a small rowboat. Now, grief is something I’ve simply learned to live with, even on days when it feels as fresh as in the beginning.
In those early days, I mentally tracked my grief’s progression. I vaguely knew about the so-called “stages of grief” from...
May 2, 2025 - 06:30 | Ayesha Habib | Walrus
A sentencing hearing is scheduled Friday for a teen girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a deadly group attack on a homeless Toronto man.
May 2, 2025 - 06:26 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa