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Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has announced 80 appointments to the Order of Canada — a list that includes Olympians, journalists, Indigenous leaders and doctors.
December 31, 2025 - 08:00 | | CBC News - Canada
It’s an ordinary, old black pay phone, its push buttons faded by decades of fingers pressing the numbers.
But I like to call it the world’s most beautiful pay phone, thanks to its front-row view of the majestic, 300-million-year-old Mount Rundle. I first stumbled across this juxtaposition of 20th-century technology and timeless nature a few years ago at a campground just outside of Banff, Alta. Sadly, when you lift the telephone receiver now, there’s no dial tone — just dead air.
Whenever I see an old, decommissioned pay phone or, even more rarely, a rotary dial phone, I’m...
December 31, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
December 31, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Bear attacks have loomed frighteningly large in the headlines this year. The most terrifying was a grizzly attack on a group of
B.C. schoolchildren and teachers
out on a hike in late November...
December 31, 2025 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Duelling citizen-led petitions related to separation, multiple uses of the notwithstanding clause, a slew of recall petitions, progress on a pipeline deal and municipal elections across the province — 2025 was rife with political news. And already, the year ahead is looking to be just as consequential.
December 31, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
They were contentious, unprecedented and among the policies that drove long-haul truckers from across Canada to overtake Ottawa’s downtown core for nearly a month.
Now a new paper explores under what conditions vaccine certificates should, or shouldn’t ever, be considered again.
“If you look at some of the language used even during the convoy, it was ethics language. It was informed consent; it was around freedom and liberty and coercion,” said co-author Maxwell Smith, director of Western University’s Centre for Bioethics.
“These are profoundly ethical ideas. We need to confront...
December 31, 2025 - 06:30 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
