Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Alanna Smith
Publication Date: October 2, 2025 - 04:05
Alberta hospital’s mask mandate for measles ended a day after it alerted province, health officials
October 2, 2025
One day after a central Alberta hospital alerted the provincial government and senior health care leaders that it had implemented a strict masking policy to prevent the spread of measles, the facility-wide safety measure was discontinued, documents obtained by The Globe and Mail show.
Internal e-mails between officials at the provincial health agency, provided through a Freedom of Information request, show enhanced masking measures were implemented at Two Hills Health Centre on April 1, because of increasing cases of measles and other respiratory viruses − and the high risk of exposure inside the hospital. It made masking mandatory for all staff and visitors.
Unpublished Newswire
Israel’s envoy to Canada says dialogue between his government and Ottawa has “deteriorated” since Prime Minister Mark Carney took office – and suggests his “hard line” on Gaza explains why Carney still hasn’t spoken by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“Since the government of Carney came into place, the level of dialogue between the two countries slowly but surely deteriorated,” Israel Ambassador Iddo Moed told The Canadian Press on Monday.
October 2, 2025 - 06:41 | Dylan Robertson | The Globe and Mail
On June 1, 2025, innocent-looking transport trucks rolled into assigned positions on the outskirts of remote Russian military airfields. The trucks carried metal storage units. By remote signal, the containers sprang open and released a swarm of armed drones, each hardly larger than a backpack. One by one, they whirred into the sky—117 in all—and slipped into formation. The armada flew low, and as they reached their targets, explosions engulfed the frames of parked aircraft.
Operation Spiderweb, eighteen months in the making, was Ukraine’s most audacious drone strike to date. According...
October 2, 2025 - 06:30 | Wesley Wark | Walrus
It sometimes feels like the only thing English- and French-speaking Montrealers agree on is that we all love the Canadiens.
Of course, it’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s not that far from the truth. Hugh MacLennan published his classic novel, Two Solitudes, in 1945, forever cementing the phrase in the lexicon in Quebec and in Canada, but things have changed big time in the decades since. English Montrealers speak a lot more French than they did in 1945, and the two communities are more closely knit than they were back then.
But—and it is a gigantic “but”—the solitudes...
October 2, 2025 - 06:29 | Brendan Kelly | Walrus
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