Unpublished Newswire
Toronto’s cooling condo market is pushing out investors and opening the door for first-time buyers as prices drop and power shifts to buyers.
October 23, 2025 - 07:00 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Ottawa
Who’s ready for a recession? Almost no one, of course. Certainly not the millions of Canadians—more than half the country—living paycheque to paycheque. Nor those, likely many of the same people, who’ve collectively sunk $2.5 trillion into consumer debt, $122 billion of which is owed to credit card companies. Canada has weathered recessions before, but the forecast today looks severe, darkened by problems like record-high youth unemployment. If the downturn comes, it may not be a passing squall we can just ride out.
It’s little wonder the Bank of Canada is trying to calm fears. In...
October 23, 2025 - 06:30 | David Moscrop | Walrus
He was a Trappist and a chatterbox,
guestmaster at the little orchard house
in Georgetown, aging man of paradox
if not comedy. Father Canisius
welcomed us with hours of talk
on silence and the use of mantras.
He had a history of chat: twenty-five
years a garrulous Jesuit before his leap
to Benedict and the cheese-maker monks,
Oka’s most unsilent man. He nearly burst.
An abbot pitied all the pent-up words,
sent him to this daughter-house as greeter
to talk at will, just not to his chanting brothers.
Novice SJs, high on Merton, we drove from
Guelph to see these monks and their apple trees...
October 23, 2025 - 06:29 | Richard Greene | Walrus
Some common sources of microplastics in the Don River are construction foam, car tires, plastic pellets and tiny pieces shed from larger single-use plastics, Rochman said.
October 23, 2025 - 06:25 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Solicitor General Michael Kerzner appeared to punt the responsibility back to the federal government while claiming the Ontario government is "not abandoning the whales."
October 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Colin D’Mello | Global News - Ottawa
A Lululemon heist has led to the discovery of $10,000 worth of stolen leggings in a Newfoundland home and police are warning it’s part of a larger trend of rising organized retail crime.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) have charged a 30-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man with theft over $5,000. They tracked them down to a home in Mount Pearl, just outside St. John’s, after a Tuesday morning theft from the popular sporting gear store in the Avalon Mall.
Inside the home, a police search turned up 90 pairs of activewear pants, three pellet guns, a high-velocity paintball...
October 23, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
