
When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Aman and Zaynab encouraged their children to keep going to school. (For their safety, the couple asked that pseudonyms be used for this story, and only first names.) At first, their two older boys, who are now fifteen and thirteen, resisted. Their favourite subjects, including English and science, weren’t being taught anymore, and their new teachers were rough with them.
Aman and Zaynab felt school was still worthwhile, even under the new circumstances. Both are former teachers, and Aman served as a district education director...
May 26, 2025 - 06:31 | Soraya Amiri | Walrus
There are plenty of A-listers with authentic pilot licences: Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Tom Cruise. None of them, however, has ever flown a commercial airliner filled with civilians under the steady, real-time gaze of GoPro cameras mounted around the cockpit. Advantage: Nathan Fielder, the Canadian-born comedian turned conceptual stuntman, whose documentary series The Rehearsal is basically an elaborately subsidized prime-time psy-op.
Last night, Canada’s salt-and-pepper Ethan Hunt concluded the second season of The Rehearsal by operating a remaindered Boeing 737,...
May 26, 2025 - 06:30 | Adam Nayman | Walrus
A coach and four teenage girls were killed in a crash when their SUV collided with a transport truck and another SUV just northeast of London, Ont. on Friday.
May 26, 2025 - 06:22 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
A coach and four teenage girls were killed in a crash when their SUV collided with a transport truck and another SUV just northeast of London, Ont. on Friday.
May 26, 2025 - 06:22 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
The emails, turned over to the Ontario NDP as part of a freedom of information appeal, show staff discussing the Greenbelt and mandate letters on their personal accounts.
May 26, 2025 - 06:00 | Colin D’Mello | Global News - Ottawa
The poll by Ipsos exclusively for Global News found that 66 per cent of respondents believe Canada’s relationship with the monarchy is useful and helps set us apart from the U.S.
May 26, 2025 - 06:00 | Katie Dangerfield | Global News - Canada