Unpublished Newswire
I used to associate old age with ominous human decline. Then I started hanging out with an octogenarian super athlete named Dag Aabye. Dag lives in a school bus on the side of a mountain in British Columbia. When he’s not stoking the fire in his bus or writing in his journals inside that bus, he can be found cutting wood or running day and night through blizzards and heat waves. He runs for several hours straight up and down that mountainside on hand-cut trails that he maintains himself with a chainsaw.
While on one of those trails not long ago, he shared with me seven words of wisdom...
August 14, 2025 - 06:30 | Brett Popplewell | Walrus
Friends fall out over how they each navigate this time
of life, one capitalizing on it, selling products designed
to ease the way we transition, ointments and salves
for our inner vixen. The other friend calls it a grift,
veiled in the language of wellness when the same product
can be purchased for a quarter of the price
over the counter at the drugstore. I speak for all of us,
the one selling tells the other who resists, calls bullshit
and waves the waiter over for another drink. We shouldn’t
be fighting, another friend says. Women should empower
each other. I excuse myself, go to the...
August 14, 2025 - 06:29 | Laisha Rosnau | Walrus
Wandering through Simons's newest store a day before it opened on Thursday, Bernard Leblanc had a quiet confidence despite the busyness surrounding him.
August 14, 2025 - 06:18 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
OTTAWA
— An increasing majority of Canadians view the federal government’s goal of seeing all new vehicle sales be zero-emission by 2035 as “unrealistic” and believe the rule ought to the scrapped, a new survey suggests.
The polling firm Leger surveyed 1,617 respondents on their thoughts about the federal sales mandate for electric vehicles at the same time as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government faces pressure from industry to...
August 14, 2025 - 06:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
New data obtained by Global News reveals the rate of violence reported in Ontario's schools is growing, up almost 80 per cent compared to 2018-19.
August 14, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
Global Affairs Canada went well over budget helping ISIS women return home from Syria with their kids.
August 14, 2025 - 05:00 | Stewart Bell | Global News - Ottawa
