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Author: Alan Freeman
Publication Date: December 8, 2025 - 16:00
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Activist René Dallaire was an articulate voice for Quebec’s disabled community
December 8, 2025
In 1970, a week before his 19th birthday, René Dallaire was competing at a downhill ski event at Mont Vidéo, a ski centre near his hometown of Rouyn-Noranda, Que.
He missed a turn and veered into the woods, the hard snow projecting him forward at high speed until he hit a tree. When help came, the first thing he said was, “I can’t feel my arms or legs.” As his sister Suzanne Dallaire later recalled, that incident sealed the course for the rest of Mr. Dallaire’s life.
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Andy Kim was 16 years old when he took a bus from his Montreal home to New York and launched himself into one of the most successful pop music songwriting careers of the 60s and 70s.The world has Mr. Kim to thank for the expertly crafted Sugar, Sugar and Rock Me Gently, among other perennial pop hits so joyously innocent they feel like they belong to not just another time, but another world.
December 13, 2025 - 07:00 | Kerry Gold | The Globe and Mail
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I, the creature who once loved mornings the most, can no longer tolerate them.
I wake up trembling. Something in my heart feels wrong, like everything else around me. I wrap my head in three blankets, making sure my ears are covered, but before I can even hear myself breathe, the epic morning noise begins. From beyond the blankets: the sound of my younger siblings quarrelling over half a piece of pita bread.
My mother begins to rebuke them, “You want to embarrass us in the eyes of the neighbours? Everyone’s flour is running out; you’re the only ones shouting about it.”...
December 13, 2025 - 06:30 | Batool Abu Akleen | Walrus
The federal government’s proposal to revive mandatory minimum punishments that courts had ruled unconstitutional will likely insulate the changes from future challenges, legal experts say.But widespread criticism remains over the use of such required minimum punishments for people convicted of specific offences, with those against the changes citing negative impacts on Indigenous people and other marginalized communities, as well as research that shows harsher sentences often do not deter crime.
December 13, 2025 - 06:15 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
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