Unpublished Newswire
Canada has narrowed its submarine procurement to two finalists including South Korea’s Hanwha and Germany’s TKMS, as it aims to replace its aging fleet by 2035.
August 30, 2025 - 08:40 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
In 2011, on the federal election campaign trial, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives promised Canadians “the right to defend their property.” The next year, after his party won a majority government, Mr. Harper rewrote Canada’s law on self-defence. The previous version, dating back to the Liberals in 2003, stated that anyone who is unlawfully assaulted, without provocation, was “justified in repelling force by force” – but no more than necessary. The response also could not be intended to cause death or grievous bodily harm.Mr. Harper’s version, in the current Criminal Code, is more...
August 30, 2025 - 08:00 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
Michelle Duff was the first North American and, so far, the only Canadian to win a motorcycle race on the world championship grand prix circuit.A triumph at the 1964 Belgian grand prix helped make Duff a popular figure among racing fans in Britain and on the Continent – where the sport enjoyed crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands – but earned her little notice back home.
August 30, 2025 - 07:00 | Tom Hawthorn | The Globe and Mail
The Ontario government, alongside Toronto City Hall, recently announced planning reforms in Canada’s largest city that would legalize larger apartment buildings around most transit stations. Ontario Housing Minister Rob Flack and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow jointly announced the changes on Aug. 15. They alter Toronto’s official plan in 120 mass transit station areas, or MTSA, around transit stations or stops.
August 30, 2025 - 07:00 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
When hydrogen sulphide − also known as sour gas − started bubbling up from underground behind the local library in Wheatley in late June and forced a brief evacuation of nearby homes, it was a stress-inducing déjà vu for this small Ontario town about an hour from Windsor.Four years ago, a similar leak in the basement of a defunct pub caused a massive explosion that destroyed two buildings and injured 20 people − and drew attention to the danger posed by the thousands of old and often improperly capped oil and gas wells that dot much of Southwestern Ontario.
August 30, 2025 - 07:00 | Jeff Gray | The Globe and Mail
Stacked up against the chronicles of mariners who found themselves navigating inhospitable waters, my predicament isn’t all that perilous. But it’s getting dark, I’ve been on the go since dawn, a severe storm is expected overnight—and I seriously doubt that anybody has ever done, or was foolish enough to consider doing, what I am about to attempt.
Hot, hungry, and exhausted, calves and fingers cramping, I study the shoreline, where a creek spills into the canal I am travelling along. A crumbling concrete wall and jagged sheet of rusty metal edge the far side of the drop. My exit...
August 30, 2025 - 06:30 | Dan Rubinstein | Walrus
