Unpublished Newswire
He was an all-Canadian whiz kid, a celebrated rocket-engineering prodigy, who wanted to make this country a serious player in the 1960s space race. But when science sidestepped Gerald Bull’s plan to build gargantuan guns that could launch projectiles into orbit, he just … broke. He turned his brilliance in missile design to darker pursuits, building horrible weapons for sinister regimes. If it sounds like a spy novel, it ends like one too, with Bull meeting a violent, mysterious end of his own...
April 7, 2026 - 06:00 | National Post | National Post
The mayors of Brampton and Mississauga are pushing back on a Ford government plan to amalgamate 36 conservation authorities. They say the move will slow housing approvals.
April 7, 2026 - 06:00 | Colin D’Mello | Global News - Ottawa
Back in the mid-1990s, former Alberta premier Ralph Klein embarked on a series of tax and spending cuts that laid the foundation for what would become known as the “Alberta advantage.”
Oil prices had collapsed the previous decade, and a series of deficits were cranking up the dial on the province’s debt servicing costs. To fend off a looming fiscal crisis, Klein cut government spending by 20 per cent in two years, scrapping numerous public programs and eliminating tens of thousands of civil service jobs. By 2001, his Progressive Conservative government had introduced what became its...
April 7, 2026 - 06:00 | Jesse Snyder | National Post
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April 7, 2026 - 05:00 | Tom Cardoso, Carrie Tait | The Globe and Mail
A federal fund for organizations that do marine and beach cleanups is returning, but with less money behind it than in past years.
April 7, 2026 - 05:00 | | CBC News - Canada
April 7, 2026 - 05:00 | Jesse Winter | The Globe and Mail
