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The vote on the throne speech itself is a confidence vote, which means that if the government loses it, it could be forced into a general election.
June 4, 2025 - 07:02 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
When Canadians question who they are, the answer is hockey.
“It’s probably the No. 1 signifier of being Canadian,” said Jason Wilson, who teaches a course about hockey in Canadian history at the University of Guelph. “Not just for Canadians, but for people around the world.”
Last year, more than half of Canada was cheering for the Edmonton Oilers to beat the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup finals. An Ipsos-Reid poll in June of 2024 showed 57 per cent of Canadians wanted to see the Oilers win the cup, versus just nine per cent backing the Panthers.
This year, with U.S. President...
June 4, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Smoke from wildfires burning in three provinces is spreading into the U.S. Upper Midwest, stirring memories of the severe pollution that drifted south from Canada two years ago during its worst fire season on record.
June 4, 2025 - 06:53 | | The Globe and Mail
Jordan Peterson’s marketability has always been a bit surprising given his weirdness. He speaks exclusively in a glottal cadence that sounds like Kermit the Frog after a night of heavy drinking. He calls hostile interlocutors “bucko.” He breaks down in tears when discussing children’s cartoons and has occasionally been known to dress like the Joker. But these days, the reactionary right is miserably bereft of real intellectuals, and a decade or so ago, Peterson stepped into this void and was rewarded with global success.
That success, improbably, comes from a unique fusion of...
June 4, 2025 - 06:31 | Luke Savage | Walrus
T hey met at a RadioShack in Montreal in November 1988. She was barely twenty, a waitress new to the city. He was five years older, a big man, six foot three, with a moustache. He seemed nice enough.
Chantale Daigle might have been a young, small-town girl—she was from Chibougamau, eight hours north of Montreal—but she knew her own mind. She lived with Jean-Guy Tremblay for five months, and it turned out he was not so nice. She got pregnant. One night, he knocked her to the ground and said that he would “bring her into line once and for all.”
“I am not going to stay.” She...
June 4, 2025 - 06:30 | Karin Wells | Walrus
Good morning. The Oilers and Panthers meet tonight for the start of the Stanley Cup final – our predictions for the series below, along with the latest on Canada’s wildfires and the fate of duty-free shops. But first:Today’s headlinesCanada’s new border bill would give authorities sweeping security powers and restrict asylum claimsTrump hikes steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% starting WednesdayConnor McDavid, one year after the sting of defeat, is ready to finally win the Stanley Cup
June 4, 2025 - 06:16 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
