Source Feed: Global News - Canada
Author: Sean Boynton
Publication Date: August 4, 2025 - 05:00
What to know about Lyme disease amid ‘steady increase’ in Canada, U.S.
August 4, 2025
Justin Timberlake is the latest celebrity to announce he has been battling the 'relentlessly debilitating' disease, which can cause severe symptoms that can persist for years.
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Good morning. This summer has brought into focus an important question: How should Canada update its wildfire response in the face of longer, hotter fire seasons? More on that below, plus big bank earnings and a high-profile engagement. But first:Today’s headlinesOttawa to back new port expansions as it signs critical minerals agreement with GermanyIsraeli tanks push into the edge of Gaza City ahead of a planned meeting chaired by U.S. President Donald Trump on the regionA Parliamentary study warns that Ottawa’s strong borders bill could infringe Charter and privacy rights Being a...
August 27, 2025 - 06:58 | Andrea Woo | The Globe and Mail
A New York billionaire who is an avid supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump says he is helping fund the legal battle by a British Columbia ostrich farm against an order to cull their flock of about 400 birds after an avian flu outbreak.John Catsimatidis says he and a friend have contributed about US$35,000 to the legal fight by Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood in B.C.’s Interior, to stop the cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
August 27, 2025 - 06:55 | Ashley Joannou | The Globe and Mail
For decades, stores like Leon’s, K Mart, and Zellers offered layaway: a no-interest, pay-in-pieces system where you picked out an item, the store held it, and you chipped away at the cost over weeks or months. Families used it to stretch toward something special—a couch, a TV, Christmas gifts. Eventually, in the 1980s, credit cards took over, and stores grew tired of holding merchandise. But until then, purchases were a pact, a structured ritual of financial restraint. The store trusted that you’d follow through; you trusted that the item would be waiting.
The contours of that...
August 27, 2025 - 06:30 | Vass Bednar | Walrus
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