Mark Carney condemns Israeli blockade on food to Gaza
April 25, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney urged Israel to allow the World Food Programme to work in Gaza, saying food must not be used as a "political tool," hours after the UN agency said it had run out of stocks due to a sustained Israeli blockade on supplies.
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Naana Jumah aims to make her patients feel safe and cared for after they arrive in Thunder Bay to deliver their babies, a journey that takes them many hundreds of kilometres away from their families, culture and communities.They have travelled by plane or road from First Nations in northwestern Ontario that lack health care services. Typically, patients leave home by around 36 weeks pregnant (air travel is not recommended beyond that point) and stay in Thunder Bay until after they deliver.
April 26, 2025 - 07:00 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
In 1967, John Howard Pew, the eighty-five-year-old chair of Sun Oil, and Ernest Manning, premier of Alberta, attended the opening of the bitumen upgrading plant near Fort McMurray. It was part of the Great Canadian Oil Sands development, a subsidiary of Sun Oil. Both men were evangelical Christians.
In 1930, Manning began preaching on a radio program, Back to the Bible Hour, and continued to preach as premier, encouraging Christians to live in the light of Jesus’s return. Pew was on the board of the magazine Christianity Today, which he helped finance, though critics said the magazine...
April 26, 2025 - 06:31 | Don Gillmor | Walrus
With Pope Francis’s death, the world reckons with the end of an era. The first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first to take the name Francis, he brought an outsider’s voice to the Vatican—and a reformer’s instinct.
From his earliest days, he signalled a shift away from grandeur and toward humility, washing the feet of prisoners and warning against the “globalization of indifference.” He broke taboos, angered conservatives, and recast Catholic discourse to focus on mercy rather than dogma.
Now, the Church faces a moment of profound uncertainty. What happens to...
April 26, 2025 - 06:30 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
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