Unpublished Newswire
A 48-year-old sexual predator is facing the highest sentence ever in Saskatchewan for his crimes against children. Richard John Dyke is to be sentenced Wednesday.
May 21, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
British Columbia’s Fraser River is on track to see a massive run of pink salmon this year, possibly the greatest since recordkeeping began.Around August and September, some 27 million pinks will be swimming upstream, almost doubling the last run’s numbers, according to Fisheries and Oceans scientist Kaitlyn Dionne.
May 21, 2025 - 07:00 | Scott Van Haren | The Globe and Mail
A dog attack in Saskatoon's Haultain neighbourhood left one woman injured and a small dog dead.
May 21, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
The cognitive dissonance begins from above. The stunning aquiline waters and jagged Cuban coastline of Guantánamo Bay come into view, and our plane makes a dramatic arc before landing on the US naval base that Amnesty International dubbed “the gulag of our times.”
Of the 123 people on board, 107 of us are here to watch the military prosecution of the five men the Pentagon says planned, funded, and executed the September 11, 2001, attacks that killed 2,977 people. We’re ranked by group. Journalists like me are at the back, near the plane’s washrooms. In front of us are law students,...
May 21, 2025 - 06:30 | Michelle Shephard | Walrus
Good morning. Israel is defying pressure from the West to allow urgent humanitarian aid into Gaza – more on that below, along with the potential Canada Post strike and the new book on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. But first:Today’s headlinesTrump says Canada is keen to join his proposed ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence systemChampagne vows to keep backing Ukraine as G7 finance ministers meet Pageantry, spectacle and hockey will mark King Charles’s visit to Ottawa next week
May 21, 2025 - 06:29 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
Off the Records
Michelle Cyca’s investigation into Jani Lauzon’s claims of Métis identity, in “An Acclaimed Canadian Playwright Faces Questions of Pretendianism,” explores a heartbreaking phenomenon. However, the article describes genealogy tests and official records, which may not always support one’s anecdotal evidence. For example, there can be inaccuracies in genetic testing by laboratories, cases of genuinely integrated community members who do not share blood, deliberate erasure of evidence (to protect or oppress people), and the possibility of previous generations misremembering...
May 21, 2025 - 06:29 | Readers | Walrus
