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Ottawa Now - New study displays sharp spike in gambling-related helpline calls
March 4, 2026
A new study is displaying a sharp rise in young men who have contacted Ontario’s Mental Help Line for gambling-related problems. After private online gambling received the green light from the Ford government to set up shop, this stunning rate has skyrocketed by more than 300 percent. The findings were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday, with the researchers behind it saying the data represents a need for stronger harm-reduction measures and more access to treatment. ConnexOntario Executive Director Nerin Kaur oversees the province’s 24-hour mental health, addiction, and problem gambling helpline. She joins Kristy Cameron on Ottawa Now.
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Organizers of an artistic performance in Toronto allege that China’s communist government is behind a series of “non-credible” threats to the venue that forced the cancellation of a show on Sunday and led to all remaining shows being axed.
Falun Dafa Association of Toronto (FDAT), the show presenter, also castigated the Four Seasons Centre, home to the Canadian Opera House Corporation, for its caving to the apparent hoaxes.
“Cancelling the show under such circumstances sets a concerning precedent that foreign actors can disrupt Canadian business operation and society at will,” FDAT...
April 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
Two weeks ago, HarperCollins Canada announced it was jumping on the nationalism bandwagon by releasing a specially branded series of Canadian reprints.
In a press release dated March 12, 2026, the publisher stipulated that seven books, comprising fiction and nonfiction, will be released on May 5, 2026, under the rubric HarperCollins Canadian Classics. The books included in this selection are The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan, By Chance Alone by Max Eisen, Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill, Birdie by Tracey Lindberg, and...
April 3, 2026 - 06:30 | Steven Beattie | Walrus
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the colonies that would later become Canada were awash in a sea of rum. Millions of litres of that sugar-based liquor were imported every year to supply its comparatively small population of colonists and Indigenous people, while thousands of additional litres flowed from colonial distilleries.
Why rum, and why so much of it? The simple answer is that it was cheap and plentiful in eighteenth-century North America. Thought to be good for the health, at least when imbibed in moderation, readily available liquor was generally seen as a good...
April 3, 2026 - 06:29 | Allan Greer | Walrus
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