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Glancing across the Rogers Centre field to see his name on the stadium's Level of Excellence still leaves former Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista with a "surreal" feeling.
June 6, 2025 - 07:02 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Therme, the European waterpark company that is taking up space on Toronto’s waterfront and on the agenda of Ontario Premier Doug Ford, has a new pitchman: Adam Vaughan.The company recently announced that Mr. Vaughan, a former MP and downtown Toronto city councillor, has joined its staff. It’s also preparing to announce new design details for its project – a stadium-sized indoor waterpark for which the government clear-cut and demolished a 14-acre island.
June 6, 2025 - 07:00 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
June 6, 2025 - 06:55 | | CBC News - Canada
Good morning. Artificial intelligence is just the latest technology to stoke fears of human decline – more on that below, along with details on a sweeping U.S. travel ban and why Canada Post negotiations are still going. But first: Today’s headlinesThe U.S. ambassador to Canada says Mark Carney is holding direct talks with Donald Trump on trade and securityA baby infected with measles in utero dies in Southwestern Ontario A Regina officer is accused of using police resources to prey on women. Seven of them told us their stories
June 6, 2025 - 06:44 | Joe Castaldo | The Globe and Mail
Before the province even had a name, Alberta’s politicians demanded limits on the federal government’s power. “The new province in the West will not consent to be dictated to from Ottawa,” Calgary lawyer and senator James Lougheed said in 1904, as reported by the Weekly Albertan.
He was talking about education, but that sense of frustration with Ottawa has been a part of politicking in Alberta since the province joined Confederation in 1905.
According to the 1911 census, one in five Albertans came from south of the border, a figure much higher than the 3 percent reported across the...
June 6, 2025 - 06:30 | Christina Frangou | Walrus
I tottered on the top landing, my toes curled on the stairs of my childhood home. A heavy maroon Webster’s Dictionary balanced precariously on my head. My hands were in a prayer position behind my back, pointing skyward. I was ten years old.
I walked slowly up and down the hallway. “Prunes, prisms,” I said.
My mother nodded. “Say it again,” she said. “Again. Enunciate. Punctuate prunes!”
I walked back and forth, back and forth.
“This is good for you,” she called out.
I continued until my tongue felt twisted and my back ached. Finally, when I couldn’t stand it anymore, I casually...
June 6, 2025 - 06:29 | Minelle Mahtani | Walrus
