Unpublished Newswire
Nearly a decade after Justin Trudeau promised safe drinking water for all First Nations, empty plastic bottles continue to pile up so high in Neskantaga First Nation that the community doesn’t know where to put them all.“You see water bottles almost every place you go, just laying around,” says Neskantaga Chief Gary Quisess by phone, the line occasionally crackling with the sound of a plastic bottle in his hand. “I don’t know how it’s going to be cleaned up or addressed.”
April 19, 2025 - 08:00 | Willow Fiddler, Patrick White | The Globe and Mail
In border towns and grocery stores, from the mouths of politicians campaigning and sports fans booing, from snowbirds to TikTokers there’s a parade of Canadians seemingly falling out of love with America.
Beyond the economic fear and tariff fallout, the taunts and tension from U.S. President Donald Trump are challenging Canada’s cultural comfort with the United States and straining social ties with our closest international neighbours...
April 19, 2025 - 07:00 | National Post Staff | National Post
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April 19, 2025 - 07:00 | Dakshana Bascaramurty | The Globe and Mail
The Globe is visiting communities across the country to hear from Canadians about the issues affecting their lives, their futures and their votes in this federal election.As a pioneer in Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil sector, Rob Strong has enjoyed a view from the deck of the industry that transformed his once hard-luck province into a booming producer of black gold too rich to qualify for the federal equalization payments that were long its mainstay. When the 1979 discovery of the Hibernia oil field unleashed a Klondike of offshore drilling, “there were more cowboy boots and...
April 19, 2025 - 07:00 | Konrad Yakabuski | The Globe and Mail
At the 1969 Canadian Film Awards, one of its jurors, the young British director Peter Watkins, declared that there was no Canadian film industry. There could hardly have been a more damning, or more humiliating, moment for such a charge to land. The CFA is a government-funded institution created with the express intent of legitimizing (and, by extension, catalyzing) a homegrown film industry. But Watkins’s complaint was legitimate: for the first time in the CFA’s twenty-year history, there were no feature films for him or his fellow jurors to view.
Watkins also levied aesthetic...
April 19, 2025 - 06:30 | Violet Lucca | Walrus
A serial rapist who says he was left permanently disabled by a prison attack was the author of his own misfortune, according to a statement of defence filed by the Attorney General of Canada in federal court.
April 19, 2025 - 06:30 | | CBC News - Canada
