King Charles and Queen Camilla travel in carriage to Senate for Throne Speech
May 27, 2025
King Charles and Queen Camilla started the second day of their Canadian visit by travelling past crowds of admirers in front of Parliament Hill.
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One day when he was a kid, Bruce McKean heard a noise coming from a rooming house near his home in Victoria. He went inside and found that the wood stacked beside the furnace was in flames. He yelled “fire.” The firemen came and extinguished it. Young Bruce had saved the day.But instead of thanking him, the people who ran the rooming house chewed him out. They didn’t want a spotlight shone on their dubious establishment.
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I ’d known Abby for over twenty years. We always had a lot to talk about, with overlapping interests and a similar world view. She had a soothing energy and a keen sense of humour. Over the years, the occasional comment or dark joke made me wonder if we shared the same kind of damage, but I never probed.
One day, we sat across from each other in a pub booth in Paddington, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. She ordered a glass of champagne for us both and we picked at some food. After some small talk, she asked me, “How are you?”
There was something about her tone, the genuine concern in...
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Rachel Smith is expecting to give birth any day in the epicentre of Canada’s worst measles outbreak in nearly 30 years. However, the Aylmer, Ont., mother is not worried about her health or the health of her baby because she’s fully vaccinated against the virus. Her cousin, Esther Wiebe, is not worried either, but for a different reason – she and her three unvaccinated children have already recovered from measles and are now immune.
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