Unpublished Newswire
Twice a year, a patrol team scrutinizes barns, straw bales and grain storage bins along a 600-kilometre stretch of the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary. They're looking for rats, continuing a 75-year mission to stop the rodents from making themselves at home in the province.
May 10, 2025 - 08:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Seven surviving NDP MPs are set to return to the House of Commons later this month, reduced not only in number, but in status.The party’s immediate task is to find a new leader to replace Jagmeet Singh, who finished in a dismal third place in his Burnaby Central riding. It will also conduct an internal review to examine how the party did so poorly in the April 28 election.
May 10, 2025 - 07:00 | Justine Hunter, Emily Haws | The Globe and Mail
“I don’t think I can go to school today.” My daughter’s voice is hoarse, and she opens her eyes for a second, squinting against the glare of the morning light. I can tell by looking at her that she’s not well: her cheeks are pink and flushed, and her eyes are a little glassy. She’s had a mild cough all weekend. I’d already planned to keep her home from school today.
But I go through the motions anyway, assessing her condition. I sit on the edge of the bed and lean over to press the palm of my hand to her forehead. I pretend that I am thinking, pondering, considering. Then I pretend...
May 10, 2025 - 06:30 | Christina Myers | Walrus
OTTAWA — For some politicians, the grief takes time to set in.
For former London West MP Sue Barnes, however, the sense of loss after being defeated in her 2008 re-election bid landed like a thud.
Barnes, like other MPs, had been living a life of too many people to see, too many things to read, too many events to attend, too few hours in the day. But there was no shortage of purpose.
That’s the way it had been pretty much for 15 years in Parliament for the first woman elected to represent any riding in her southwestern Ontario city. And then, after a few hours of ballot counting,...
May 10, 2025 - 06:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
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May 10, 2025 - 06:00 | Kayla Thompson | Walrus
Bestselling author of eight books, including The War on The West and The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray has just released On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization.
In it, he paints a detailed picture of the minutes, and hours, of the devastation wrought in the Gaza envelope during the massacres of October 7, 2023, as well as the hours, days and months afterwards; the heroism of Israelis who defied orders, and fended off Hamas on their own; the weaponry IDF soldiers discovered in civilian Gazan homes; and the exclusive harrowing accounts of the massacre’s...
May 10, 2025 - 06:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
