Unpublished Newswire
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
We lost a day on the flight and forgot it was St. Valentine’s and when we ditched our stuff and ran to catch the last light on the Acropolis, the first thing I saw other than the Parthenon was the red heart-shaped balloon. It flew solo over the city, trailing a ribbon just released, and I got weirdly dizzy, like it was me rising up forever from the ever-shrinking earth. But Matty was saying what she knew about those famous columns glowing butter-yellow through the restoration scaffolds, and words like doric and ionic brought me back to where I was. I felt suddenly wonderful. This is why...
August 29, 2025 - 06:29 | Michael LaPointe | Walrus
Good morning. As one of the few news organizations in the world with a contributing reporter on the ground in Gaza, sharing these stories is a unique privilege and a challenge – and today we take you behind the scenes on our coverage. More on that below, plus improving international relations and preparing for back to school. But first: Today’s headlinesThe Supreme Court declines to hear the appeal of the Sauble Beach, Ont. land claim, granting the Saugeen First Nation to keep a stretch of coastline after a 30-year legal battleThe law firm that took on big tobacco is awarded an...
August 29, 2025 - 06:27 | Hamida Ghafour | The Globe and Mail
Mayah Obadia was vacationing in Toronto when she received a text message from her petsitter about her cat, Fig. He was not eating or playing.For most Canadians, this would warrant a pretty simple solution: a trip to the local veterinarian’s office, likely scheduled during regular clinic hours.
August 29, 2025 - 06:00 | Emily Haws | The Globe and Mail
A recent survey of chief administrative officers offered a drastically different view of how the province's strong mayor powers are being implemented
August 29, 2025 - 05:55 | Colin D’Mello | Global News - Ottawa
