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Thomas Verny is a clinical psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, public speaker, poet and podcaster. He is the author of eight books, including the global bestseller The Secret Life of the Unborn Child and 2021’s The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness and Our Bodies.Today, as a society, we are under a great deal of stress. Men and women, LGBTQ people, racialized people, Indigenous people and new immigrants are experiencing these rapidly changing times differently. An in-depth discussion of these differences would take a book, not a column...
August 29, 2025 - 08:00 | Thomas Verny | The Globe and Mail
BRP Inc. DOO-T says its latest quarter delivered results that were better than expected in the current macroeconomic context after the company took a wait-and-see approach to consumer behaviour during the ongoing trade war.The Ski-Doo and Sea-Doo maker says its second-quarter profit amounted to $161 million, or 79 cents per diluted share, for the quarter ended July 31.
August 29, 2025 - 07:54 | | The Globe and Mail
The federal government says it’s “looking into” what appears to be the accidental removal of a privacy provision in its Online Streaming Act.Earlier this week, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist outlined in a blog post that a privacy provision in the legislation was removed only two months after the bill became law, through an amendment contained in another bill.
August 29, 2025 - 07:41 | Anja Karadeglija | The Globe and Mail
Statistics Canada is set to release gross domestic product data for the month of June and the second quarter as a whole today. The agency’s early estimates for GDP in the second quarter had been for zero growth as trade uncertainty and tariffs weigh on business and consumer sentiment.
August 29, 2025 - 07:03 | | The Globe and Mail
Canadian child-protection advocates are urging the administrators of the network that underpins much of the dark web to block access to millions of child-abuse images and the thousands of websites that post them. They are warning that pedophile material is proliferating on the anonymous web, including tips on how to abuse minors and evade the police, which is jeopardizing the safety of huge numbers of children worldwide.
August 29, 2025 - 07:00 | Marie Woolf | The Globe and Mail
Cécile Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets—the world’s first to survive infancy and into adulthood—died on July 28 in Montreal, at the age of ninety-one. Celebrated writer Mavis Gallant wrote this acerbic essay about the tourist and media frenzy around the five sisters, after visiting them at their Northern Ontario home for the Montreal Standard in 1949, when the girls were fifteen. Cécile’s sister Annette is now the only living of the five.
“Five Not So Carefree Teenagers”
August 9, 1949
Canada’s best-known tourist attraction, the Dionne quintuplets are a paying...
August 29, 2025 - 06:30 | Mavis Gallant | Walrus
