
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s top health official under U.S. President Donald Trump, has vowed to solve what he calls an “autism epidemic,” but the rising number of diagnoses is largely due to a loosening of what counts as autism, according to an eminent psychiatrist who led the task force that expanded the criteria 30 years ago.
Before then, classic autism “always presented itself by age three with incapacitating cognitive,...
April 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
The province is in the midst of relocating the science centre to Ontario Place after shuttering its current home last year in a controversial move.
April 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Canada
The province is in the midst of relocating the science centre to Ontario Place after shuttering its current home last year in a controversial move.
April 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
OTTAWA — A year-and-a-half before he became leader of the Liberal party, Mark Carney took on a daunting job. In August 2023, he
was appointed chairman
of a revamped board of directors at Bloomberg LP, a U.S. financial information and media company.
In a memo to staff, Michael Bloomberg, the co-founder and majority owner...
April 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Stuart Thomson | National Post
In a federal election campaign dominated by U.S. tariffs and the cost of living, the two main parties vying to form the next government have spent little time debating the future of Canada’s climate action plans.On Tuesday, the Conservative Party released its campaign platform mentioning climate action five times but with few specifics. By contrast, the party has an ambitious agenda to expand Canada’s oil and gas sector.
April 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Justine Hunter | The Globe and Mail
Lefty Kamenawatamin was 15 years old when he went on his first train ride in 1979.The former chief from Bearskin Lake First Nation says he was on his way to Winnipeg to visit his sister when he stopped in Sioux Lookout, a small rural railway town in Northwestern Ontario. He recalls construction workers hammering away on the new Sioux Hotel just across the street. It would later house The Whistle Stop for train passengers passing through, a coffee shop, a dining room and the infamous bar in the basement, known as the Zoo, where locals and visitors danced the night away to live music.
April 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Willow Fiddler | The Globe and Mail