Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Danielle Groen
Publication Date: August 7, 2025 - 06:10
Morning Update: Italy pitches the world’s longest suspension bridge
August 7, 2025
Good morning. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is positioning a €13-billion mega-bridge as a matter of national defence – more on that below, along with Shopify’s return to the top of the stocks and Gen Z’s embrace of Y2K fashion. But first:
Today’s headlines- Trump and Putin could meet in person as soon as next week, the White House says
- Ford expects Trump to target USMCA and says Ottawa should prepare for early negotiations
- Victoria Mboko advances to the women’s singles final at the National Bank Open, continuing her remarkable streak
Unpublished Newswire
It was Matt Durnin, principal of the consultancy Nous Group, who first mentioned his company’s horrific nickname.
In an interview about Nous’s swift and controversial rise to dominance of Canada’s market in strategic management advice to universities, Durnin said Nous remains a company that is “small enough to have a bit of personality.”
So it does. Trouble is, that personality has a dark side. The nickname is “Nousferatu,” as in the vampire, because of what critics describe as a reputation for selling a slash-and-burn template for saving bankrupt universities by making them go...
August 28, 2025 - 07:00 | Joseph Brean | National Post
Lately, I’ve been trying to make life harder for my children. Or rather, I’m trying to stop making it easier. When they encounter an obstacle, I resist the urge to intervene: to fit the puzzle pieces together for my red-faced toddler, or help him clamber up a playground ladder; to conjure up a constant stream of activities to fill my kindergartener’s weekend afternoons, or at least let her watch TV. I let them struggle with the existential question of how to pass the time, which in human history has only recently been derailed by a culture of insistent parental attention and now the...
August 28, 2025 - 06:30 | Michelle Cyca | Walrus
Good morning. I will be delving into sepsis today, a life-threatening medical condition, especially if not diagnosed promptly. We’ll have more about the families fighting for better treatment in Canada below. Plus, small businesses prepare for the end of de minimis, and throwing tomatoes, but in a good way. But first: Today’s headlinesRussia’s overnight drone and missile attack on Kyiv has killed over a dozen people including three children and injured nearly 50, with the death toll expected to riseThe FBI announced a domestic terrorism investigation into the Minneapolis school shooting...
August 28, 2025 - 06:30 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
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