Unpublished Newswire
Three women from Regina recently medalled at an international powerlifting competition. They say they hope their example shows that anyone at any age can get into the sport and reap the benefits of growing stronger with age.
October 24, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
On Oct. 17, Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers played the greatest game in Major League Baseball history. Facing the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 4 of the NLCS at Dodger Stadium, the Japanese colossus not only tossed a two-hit, 10-strikeout gem over six shutout innings, he also clouted three homers, including one moon shot that cleared the ballpark completely.In the classic baseball film The Natural, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, an extraordinary pitcher/hitter whose supernatural bat shatters at a key moment. Yet he prevails, smacking an astonishing blast with a substitute bat to...
October 24, 2025 - 07:00 | Brad Wheeler | The Globe and Mail
The United States is in crisis and, therefore, Canada is in crisis. These conjoined crises have common features. Both involve reimagining national strategy, and also questions of federalism. But the similarity ends there.
That the United States faces a “crisis of democracy” is widely acknowledged. It began in the early twenty-first century and accelerated after the global financial meltdown of 2007/08.
Americans are deeply polarized about what has gone wrong with the system and how to fix it. There is a red-state view and a blue-state view. The struggle in Washington has become brutal,...
October 24, 2025 - 06:31 | Alasdair Roberts | Walrus
When it comes to the future of work, there is only one certainty. Anyone who tells you that they know what is going to happen is either lying to you or trying to sell you something. We are in uncharted territory. And there is a lot of uncertainty. What we do know is that a lot is going to change.
When I first started working on AI, there were three major camps when it came to thinking about jobs:
1. AI and AI automation will progress to a point at which human workers will become economically worthless.
2. We will experience a massive transition, and work as we know it will change forever...
October 24, 2025 - 06:30 | David Eliot | Walrus
For four decades, starting in the mid-’80s, Kevin Tobin has been Newfoundland and Labrador’s sharpest editorial cartoonist. He can collapse a week’s worth of headlines into one perfectly barbed scene. From Donald Trump to the province’s chronic doctor shortage, from Mark Carney’s ascent to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, his thousands of caricatures for the Telegram have spared no target. Each one—signed “KT”—brims with satire, empathy, and the province’s own unmistakable, salt-tinged wit. Almost always hovering in his panels is a tiny fly—his alter ego—taking it all in. Describing himself...
October 24, 2025 - 06:29 | Kevin Tobin | Walrus
Good morning. The World Series starts today, and the Toronto Blue Jays are up to bat. For those who haven’t been following the season, we have a primer to bring you up to speed. More on that below, plus movement in global trade and a high priority renovation. But first: Today’s headlinesTrump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada over Ontario’s anti-tariff adOttawa is proposing “sweeping” reforms to bail and sentencing lawsCan Canada really double non-U.S. exports in a decade? Teachers protested at the Alberta Legislature while the fall sitting began
October 24, 2025 - 06:11 | Graham Isador | The Globe and Mail
