Unpublished Newswire
The mayor of flood-struck Abbotsford, B.C., says he is disappointed and frustrated with the federal government over what he calls “inaction” on cross-border flooding that has repeatedly inundated his city.Ross Siemens said he had not been contacted by the federal government about this week’s flooding, which has forced hundreds of households to evacuate, inundated poultry barns and forced livestock relocations.
December 13, 2025 - 07:48 | Brenna Owen | The Globe and Mail
For 30 years, the development industry in Vancouver was so flush with profit and momentum that government planners seemed to assume that it would be willing to pay for whatever the city asked for.New parks. Daycares and school sites. Restoration of heritage buildings. More stringent building-code requirements. More energy efficiency. Public art. More room in underground garages for bike parking and car shares.
December 13, 2025 - 07:30 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
An Ontario senior found not criminally responsible for attacking three housemates with a hammer before he tried to punch a police officer and kicked a nurse in the face has been discharged.
James Harding, 73, appeared recently in front of the Ontario Review Board at the Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby, Ont., where he was a patient until he was released into the community in May 2023.
“The panel found that Mr. Harding remains a significant threat to the safety of the public and the necessary and appropriate disposition to manage that risk is a discharge with …...
December 13, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Andy Kim was 16 years old when he took a bus from his Montreal home to New York and launched himself into one of the most successful pop music songwriting careers of the 60s and 70s.The world has Mr. Kim to thank for the expertly crafted Sugar, Sugar and Rock Me Gently, among other perennial pop hits so joyously innocent they feel like they belong to not just another time, but another world.
December 13, 2025 - 07:00 | Kerry Gold | The Globe and Mail
January 10, 2025
I, the creature who once loved mornings the most, can no longer tolerate them.
I wake up trembling. Something in my heart feels wrong, like everything else around me. I wrap my head in three blankets, making sure my ears are covered, but before I can even hear myself breathe, the epic morning noise begins. From beyond the blankets: the sound of my younger siblings quarrelling over half a piece of pita bread.
My mother begins to rebuke them, “You want to embarrass us in the eyes of the neighbours? Everyone’s flour is running out; you’re the only ones shouting about it.”...
December 13, 2025 - 06:30 | Batool Abu Akleen | Walrus
The federal government’s proposal to revive mandatory minimum punishments that courts had ruled unconstitutional will likely insulate the changes from future challenges, legal experts say.But widespread criticism remains over the use of such required minimum punishments for people convicted of specific offences, with those against the changes citing negative impacts on Indigenous people and other marginalized communities, as well as research that shows harsher sentences often do not deter crime.
December 13, 2025 - 06:15 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
