Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Eric Andrew-Gee
Publication Date: April 18, 2025 - 18:36
In Montreal, hockey fever for Canadiens’ unlikely playoff run puts federal election in backseat
April 18, 2025
After the game was won, and fans were wildly chanting under the watchful eye of mounted riot police, Greg Miles still could hardly believe it.“The last month has been unreal,” he said, standing outside the Bell Centre and wearing a crisp new red-white-and-blue Demidov jersey. “I thought they were going to miss the playoffs!”
Unpublished Newswire
For decades now, critics of the United States have complained about how it was throwing its weight around, trying to impose its form of capitalism and democracy on the rest of the world. Who gave Washington the right to act as the world’s policeman? Who put it in charge of global affairs and institutions? Who made Uncle Sam boss?Well, now we are seeing what happens in a world without American leadership. It is not pretty. Under Donald Trump, the United States is pulling back from its leading role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations and the World Trade...
April 19, 2025 - 08:00 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
Nearly a decade after Justin Trudeau promised safe drinking water for all First Nations, empty plastic bottles continue to pile up so high in Neskantaga First Nation that the community doesn’t know where to put them all.“You see water bottles almost every place you go, just laying around,” says Neskantaga Chief Gary Quisess by phone, the line occasionally crackling with the sound of a plastic bottle in his hand. “I don’t know how it’s going to be cleaned up or addressed.”
April 19, 2025 - 08:00 | Willow Fiddler, Patrick White | The Globe and Mail
In border towns and grocery stores, from the mouths of politicians campaigning and sports fans booing, from snowbirds to TikTokers there’s a parade of Canadians seemingly falling out of love with America.
Beyond the economic fear and tariff fallout, the taunts and tension from U.S. President Donald Trump are challenging Canada’s cultural comfort with the United States and straining social ties with our closest international neighbours...
April 19, 2025 - 07:00 | National Post Staff | National Post
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