Unpublished Newswire
Environment Canada says most of Ontario will feel sweltering temperatures starting this weekend with a multi-day heat event expected to bring a humidex as high as 40.The weather agency issued the heat warning on Friday afternoon, saying people can expect daytime highs ranging between 30 and 33 C and overnight lows of up to 23 C starting on Saturday.
August 9, 2025 - 11:01 | | The Globe and Mail
The union representing front-line RCMP members wants the force to ease requirements for foreign applicants to help attract experienced police officers from agencies like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia.The RCMP currently requires that applicants be Canadian citizens or have permanent resident status in Canada. Applicants with permanent resident status must have lived in Canada as a permanent resident for three of the last five years.
August 9, 2025 - 08:36 | Jim Bronskill | The Globe and Mail
The night that Donald Trump won the election for the first time I was in New York.I had parked myself in a bar where young Republicans were gathering to watch the results come in. My assignment was to talk to them after Mr. Trump had lost and write something about the future of the Republican Party after his failure. A look at the post-Trump GOP, in other words.
August 9, 2025 - 07:00 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
From its earliest days, the Avon River has been the heart of the community of Stratford, Ont. The centrepiece of the river, known as Lake Victoria, was created in the 1830s as a millpond for industry. The parks board later convinced the city to invest in horse-drawn scoops to dredge the lake. Locals warded off railroad proposals along the shorelines, where roses from Queen Mary were planted. A pair of swans from Queen Elizabeth arrived in 1967.
August 9, 2025 - 07:00 | Sophia Coppolino | The Globe and Mail
O n the roof above the studio, he stands and waits. All afternoon, the studio floor is overbooked and surplus staff work where they can. A television camera stands with him on the roof, infinitely patient. The way it waits there, it could be made of time. He—not so much. “Action!” he shouts, and in short order, the door to the stairwell opens and out step half a dozen spies, dressed in beige trench coats with their collars up.
Of course, they are not real spies, they are actors. Overdressed, ironic parodies of the Z-movie secret agent, sunglasses and fedoras concealing their youth...
August 9, 2025 - 06:30 | Daniel Tammet | Walrus
An Ontario Ponzi scheme operator who purported to be making lipstick to bilk her victims out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to four years in prison and fined $610,856.
If she can’t pay the fine levied by the Ontario Court of Justice within five years of her prison sentence expiring, Glenda Marie Esteves must serve another 18 months behind bars.
“I find Ms. Esteves is entirely responsible for the financial loss of every victim of her fraudulent scheme. She was the sole beneficiary of the millions of dollars she fraudulently obtained. The location of the money is unknown,”...
August 9, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
