Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Eric Andrew-Gee
Publication Date: March 21, 2025 - 20:17
U.S. to shut Canadian entrance to beloved Vermont-Quebec border library
March 21, 2025
For 120 years, the Haskell Free Library & Opera House has straddled the Quebec-Vermont border, offering equal access to Canadians and Americans alike, passport-free. That was the vision of its founder, the philanthropist and dual-citizen Martha Haskell, who believed in friendship between the two countries.As of next week, that remarkable run of binational harmony will come to an end when U.S. authorities cut off Canadian access to the grand turreted building, a decision announced on Thursday evening.
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A tourist outfit operator offering polar bear tours and luxury ecolodge accommodations in Churchill, Man., says the single cancellation it has received so far from a U.S. guest over border relations isn’t going to sway how he does business this coming season.Adam Pauls, the CEO of Churchill Wild, said he doesn’t believe Americans will forgo their non-refundable deposits required for existing reservations over the worsening political relationship between Canada and the United States.
March 22, 2025 - 08:00 | Willow Fiddler | The Globe and Mail
Arab and Black people are overrepresented in police stops in Laval, Quebec’s third-largest city, adding to mounting evidence of widespread racial profiling by law enforcement in the province, according to data obtained by The Globe and Mail.The data, which Laval police fought in court to avoid disclosing after receiving an access-to-information request, include nearly 10,000 police stops made between December, 2022, and January, 2025. Each entry lists the date and hour of a stop, along with the individual’s race.
March 22, 2025 - 07:30 | Frédérik-Xavier D. Plante | The Globe and Mail
Trump mused about a 'very large faucet' that could be turned on in Canada to bring water to the arid U.S. southwest. But there is no faucet
March 22, 2025 - 07:00 | Tyler Dawson | National Post
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