Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sue Montgomery
Publication Date: September 2, 2025 - 16:53
Sun Youth co-founder Sid Stevens provided vital services for Montrealers in need
September 2, 2025
If there was a fire, a flood, kids in need of skates or a hungry family in Montreal, Sid Stevens could be counted on to organize help.
For seven decades, his name was synonymous with Sun Youth, the community organization he founded with his friend Earl De La Perralle when they were both barely into puberty.
In March, four months into her pregnancy, Leilani Garel was in excruciating pain with a bug she suspects was the flu.Ms. Garel, who lives in Markham, Ont., rarely turns to over-the-counter medication and feared that taking it could affect her growing fetus. Having experienced a miscarriage before this pregnancy, she also carried an added burden of worry.
September 27, 2025 - 08:30 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
The risk that hundreds of ostriches in southeastern B.C. could still spread the bird flu that infected the flock last December is very low, but remains high enough to continue with a federal cull, veterinary science experts tell The Globe and Mail.Angela Rasmussen, a virologist with the University of Saskatchewan, said that while it is possible to test the birds for avian flu using a PCR test – the same used to test for COVID-19 in humans – scientists would likely need to take multiple samples to ensure the accuracy of the testing.
September 27, 2025 - 07:30 | Nancy Macdonald, Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
“A dollar a day keeps the doctor away,” Pika, one of my girls, said as she nibbled an afternoon snack at the kitchen table.
I wondered at the way she had mangled the “apple a day” aphorism. The original, “Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,” came from Wales. It took a day before I could ask Pika about the origin of her saying.
She had picked up her dollar-centric version from classmates: “That’s what they all say!”
Like generations before, Pika and her peers are dazzled by the glitter of consumerist culture. Today, they are hyperaware of not...
September 27, 2025 - 06:30 | Priyanka Kumar | Walrus
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