Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sophia Coppolino
Publication Date: August 10, 2025 - 16:27
In Alberta’s ‘Hailstorm Alley,’ scientists-turned-storm-chasers look into the eye of the storm for answers
August 10, 2025
Nearly every summer now, residents of Alberta and the Prairies are confronted by a costly, extreme weather event that damages homes, dents cars and devastates crops: hail.
But researchers from Western University’s Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory are hoping to improve Canada’s understanding of hailstorms by collecting data in central Alberta for their Northern Hail Project.
Unpublished Newswire
Canadian child-protection advocates are urging the administrators of the network that underpins much of the dark web to block access to millions of child-abuse images and the thousands of websites that post them. They are warning that pedophile material is proliferating on the anonymous web, including tips on how to abuse minors and evade the police, which is jeopardizing the safety of huge numbers of children worldwide.
August 29, 2025 - 07:00 | Marie Woolf | The Globe and Mail
Cécile Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets—the world’s first to survive infancy and into adulthood—died on July 28 in Montreal, at the age of ninety-one. Celebrated writer Mavis Gallant wrote this acerbic essay about the tourist and media frenzy around the five sisters, after visiting them at their Northern Ontario home for the Montreal Standard in 1949, when the girls were fifteen. Cécile’s sister Annette is now the only living of the five.
“Five Not So Carefree Teenagers”
August 9, 1949
Canada’s best-known tourist attraction, the Dionne quintuplets are a paying...
August 29, 2025 - 06:30 | Mavis Gallant | Walrus
We lost a day on the flight and forgot it was St. Valentine’s and when we ditched our stuff and ran to catch the last light on the Acropolis, the first thing I saw other than the Parthenon was the red heart-shaped balloon. It flew solo over the city, trailing a ribbon just released, and I got weirdly dizzy, like it was me rising up forever from the ever-shrinking earth. But Matty was saying what she knew about those famous columns glowing butter-yellow through the restoration scaffolds, and words like doric and ionic brought me back to where I was. I felt suddenly wonderful. This is why...
August 29, 2025 - 06:29 | Michael LaPointe | Walrus
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