Unpublished Newswire
A Jewish Montreal woman says she was told by a Canadian passport office employee that she could not indicate Israel as her country of birth because it is “a conflict zone.”
Anastasia Zorchinsky is a Canadian citizen but she was born in Kfar Saba, in central Israel. However, she says in a Nov. 13 video posted on X that the official told her because of the “political conflict we cannot put Israel in your passport.”
Alternatively, she was told she could have indicated her birth country as Palestine, and that Kfar Saba was one of several cities that was allegedly caught by this policy shift...
November 16, 2025 - 08:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Bears No. 122 and 136, known as The Boss and Split Lip respectively, are arguably two of the most famous grizzlies in Canada. The Boss is currently considered Banff National Park's dominant grizzly bear, while the younger Split Lip has been challenging him for the top spot.
November 16, 2025 - 08:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Timothy Rohan headed out from his home in Holyoke, Mass., eight years ago on an unlikely mission.
The construction worker planned to shoplift supermarket bags of shrimp, then sell the purloined shellfish to bodegas in the city’s gritty downtown. The cash proceeds would feed his desperate need for fentanyl.
The scheme ended abruptly when two police cruisers pulled up beside him, the officers ordering the young man onto the pavement and locking him in handcuffs. A few hours later, guards hauled Rohan from a cell in the local courthouse and brought him before a judge – though he had stolen...
November 16, 2025 - 07:00 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
Amanda Shaw has worked at St. Lawrence College’s Cornwall campus for more than a decade, long enough to have lived through the international student boom. And now the bust.When she started, foreign enrolment was low. Then it seemed to skyrocket. The small campus on the shores of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Ontario started to bustle; the college ran budget surpluses and introduced innovative programs. Even during the chaos of COVID-19 the numbers continued to grow. The same thing was happening at colleges across the province and in other parts of the country.
November 16, 2025 - 07:00 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
Kingsville is discontinuing boat rescues to cut costs, prompting concern from safety advocates who say reducing local response capacity puts boaters at risk.
November 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Ottawa
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Coke is it” was a popular TV ad for the famed soda back in 1982, featuring teens singing Coca-Cola’s praises around a piano. It was around that same time when the company started using high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) instead of cane sugar in their main product — and would soon launch the flop known as “New Coke” — so a better catchphrase might have been, “Which Coke is it?”
Fast forward 43 years, and for U.S. and Canadian consumers of Coke, it’s primarily the fresh taste of HFCS that they’re enjoying, unless they’ve paid a premium for Mexican Coke, which is made with...
November 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Tracy Moran | National Post
