Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Marcus Gee
Publication Date: September 13, 2025 - 06:30
Why Doug Ford is wrong about speed cameras
September 13, 2025
Doug Ford is a tough-on-crime guy. He backs our men and women in blue to the hilt. He rants about judges letting crooks off too easily. He believes in enforcing the law.
Except, it seems, the law against destroying public property. When vandals destroyed 16 Toronto speed cameras this week, he didn’t seem especially bothered. While Mayor Olivia Chow denounced the acts of “lawlessness” and police said they were striving to catch the perpetrators, Ontario’s Premier delivered a diatribe against the cameras instead.
Unpublished Newswire
Remembered by colleagues and friends as generous, humble, mischievous and a great cook, Graham Greene was, above all, a versatile actor whose career spanned half a century and broke down racial stereotypes of Indigenous people as violent aggressors or victims. Probably best known for his role as Kicking Bird, a Sioux tribal leader in Kevin Costner’s 1990 epic film Dances with Wolves, Mr. Greene was a trailblazer in presenting Indigenous characters with human complexity and depth.
September 13, 2025 - 10:00 | Sue Montgomery | The Globe and Mail
Canada is unapologetically back in the resource extraction business. For Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, that’s great news.
When you look at the nation-building projects announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, Premier Smith said in a Friday night interview, the “mines for gold and copper, the nuclear power installation, LNG Canada 2 — these are true resource extraction, revenue-generating projects.”
“It’s about generating revenue,” she enthuses. “This isn’t supposed to be an exercise in how do we spend more government money on public infrastructure,” she says, “It’s how do we...
September 13, 2025 - 09:07 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many Canadians were desperate for information about the virus. Fear was running high. Answers were in short supply.There was also heightened concern, shared by Canada’s then-chief public health officer, that Indigenous people were at greater risk for worse illness, including death, because of factors including health inequities and higher rates of underlying conditions, as well as challenges accessing medical care.
September 13, 2025 - 09:00 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
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