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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
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The U.S. election had just ended and Pete Hoekstra was on a bit of a high. He’d taken charge of a divided Republican Party in Michigan and, with his team, helped steer the key battleground state to Donald Trump.
Now he was asking Trump’s people about possible jobs in the new administration.
They had a simple response: talk to the president-elect himself. Hoekstra dutifully called Trump on his cell phone and won...
December 13, 2025 - 06:00 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
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December 13, 2025 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
Gone are the days when my late parents could buy 10 loaves of bread for a dollar and $15 filled a family of seven with food for a week. Read More
December 13, 2025 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
Henry Walter is a sought-after music producer and songwriter who's had a hand in some of the biggest songs of the past decade and a half, but four years in his teens in Halifax helped shape the artist known as Cirkut.
December 13, 2025 - 05:00 | | CBC News - Canada
