Unpublished Newswire
John Moses says that when his father Russell Moses returned on leave from the Korean War, his battles weren’t over.When the Indigenous residential school survivor came back to Canada in 1952, he was turned away from a bar in Hagersville, Ont., because of his race, his son said.
November 8, 2025 - 08:06 | Brieanna Charlebois | The Globe and Mail
Shawn Pendenque grew up in an abusive household, where he was treated like a “pariah” for being gay. At 16, his father left him at a youth hostel, and Mr. Pendenque became homeless and addicted to drugs. He was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his 30s, after suffering a psychotic break and landing in a maximum-security prison.Such biographical details aren’t typically bullet points one might list on a CV. But for Mr. Pendenque, who just turned 50, his “lived experiences” have become an invaluable asset in his job with a social services organization in Toronto, where he now...
November 8, 2025 - 08:00 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
At OAG, The Art of a Good Death brings palliative-care research into the public realm through painting, film and an interactive exhibit. The show, created by Ottawa researcher Sarina Isenberg with artists from across Canada, asks an unsettling question: What does it mean to die well?
November 8, 2025 - 08:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
A Pakistani immigrant ordered deported 17 months ago for causing a deadly five-vehicle crash on a major highway in Mississauga, Ont., and then fleeing the scene, has won another chance to stay in Canada.
The “tragic” Jan. 27, 2018, crash on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) resulted “in the death of one person and severe injuries to various other individuals,” according to a recent Federal Court decision.
Yasir Baig “fled the scene of the accident but surrendered to the police” a dozen days later.
Father of two dead in crash that closed Toronto-bound Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) for five...
November 8, 2025 - 07:30 | Chris Lambie | National Post
William H. Whyte’s wisdom sounds almost laughably obvious: “People will sit where there are places to sit.” When the journalist’s 1980 film The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces played last week to a full house hosted by the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, the audience did, in fact, chuckle. But the line resonates, because our urban parks largely fail to provide such basic amenities. The screening and the discussion that followed raised a thorny question: Why do we persist in getting public urban space wrong when the formula has long been obvious?
November 8, 2025 - 07:25 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, anthropologist Heidi Larson and her team at the Global Listening Project conducted dozens of in-depth interviews and focus groups with people in six major cities to learn of their experiences. By this point, in late 2022, there had been much attention paid by scholars to government responses, virus surveillance and supply chain management, but little to people themselves. She wondered: What are they thinking and feeling, and how might we better prepare society for times of crisis?
November 8, 2025 - 07:15 | Andrea Woo | The Globe and Mail
