Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sarah Smellie
Publication Date: May 8, 2025 - 14:16
Homes destroyed, more people flee as wildfires rage in eastern Newfoundland
May 8, 2025
More people were packing up to flee their homes Thursday morning as wildfires raged in Newfoundland along the western shore of Conception Bay, about 45 kilometres northwest of St. John’s.The flames had destroyed about a dozen homes since Wednesday afternoon, said Gerry Rogers, a resident of the amalgamated town of Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, N.L.
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
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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
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