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An 18-year-old with severe fetal alcohol spectrum disorder accused of running drivers off the road in a stolen truck was among those denied release during recent bail hearings in Winnipeg, which CBC News watched to learn more about who gets released, who doesn’t and why.
November 4, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Good morning. Ottawa’s long-promised budget lands today, pairing billions in new investment with “difficult” spending cuts – more on that below, along with baseball’s new generation of fans and B.C.’s shelved anti-tariff ad. But first:Today’s headlinesDick Cheney, former U.S. vice-president and architect of Iraq War, dies at 84Canada’s food agency forms a team to flag risks posed by U.S. cutbacksChina approves group tourism travel to Canada after the Carney-Xi meeting
November 4, 2025 - 06:52 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
I was at a farmers’ market perusing a selection of squash, dithering over whether to splurge $5 on just one. I pulled out my phone, in part because I wanted to check what you can do with squash, but mostly because I reflexively look at my phone whenever I encounter any difficulty. Just as I did so, a news alert popped up, informing me that Elon Musk could soon become the world’s first trillionaire.
“How much is a trillion?” I asked out loud.
“I think . . .” My boyfriend, a mathematician, squinted into the distance. “It’s a billion billions.”
He was wrong. A trillion...
November 4, 2025 - 06:31 | Kathy Chow | Walrus
It’s safe to say a lot of Canadians are feeling lousy about their ability to make ends meet. A recent Royal Bank of Canada survey found that nearly half of respondents say they can’t maintain their standard of living, while an October poll from Abacus Data found that 62 percent of respondents cited the rising cost of living as one of their top concerns.
In other words, little has changed since the spring, when the major parties’ federal election campaigns burst with pledges to make life more affordable for Canadians, including by lowering taxes and building homes (along with parties’...
November 4, 2025 - 06:30 | Renée Sylvestre-Williams | Walrus
“It’s the job of the body double to take the risks that you yourself are too sedate or chicken or unaccomplished to take,” Margaret Atwood writes in the opening of her 2025 memoir Book of Lives. She then tells us that every writer has a body double, that some writers—like herself—have many body doubles. When a writer enters a piece of fiction, she seems to be saying, they cease to be themselves. Their fascination with this theme or their penchant for that turn of phrase may remain unchanged, but the makeup of their soul is moulded to suit the story and characters. Similar on the surface...
November 4, 2025 - 06:29 | Amarah Hasham-Steele | Walrus
A strike that is upending public transit in Montreal could be the first test of a new law that gives the Quebec government broad power to end labour disputes.
November 4, 2025 - 06:22 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
