
Parents are feeling the strain as the measles outbreak grows, especially in southern Alberta. At a Lethbridge playground, they say they’re trying to keep kids safe and navigate touchy vaccine conversations, whether they’re pro-vaccines or not.
May 22, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
There are now more than 43,000 claims in the region that is some 450 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., said Anna Baggio, the conservation director of Wildlands League.
May 22, 2025 - 06:43 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Speaking to reporters in Rome on Sunday, where he was attending the inaugural mass for Pope Leo XIV, Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about housing prices. The question from reporter Mackenzie Gray was simple: “Do you want house prices to go down in Canada?” The answer was less simple.
When Carney’s cabinet was sworn in last week, new housing minister Gregor Robertson took a lot of heat for answering no to that question, but his answer was more complex than he’s getting credit for. Robertson didn’t communicate particularly well, but what he seemed to mean was that the government’s...
May 22, 2025 - 06:30 | David Moscrop | Walrus
One an athlete
since way back when
who understands
the exact speed
of the uniformed self
circling the track
in the lined pages
of the log
that preserves his every mile
and pulling away
stride by spiked stride—
the other late
to the game, brimful
of wonder at what might
have been achieved.
At the all-comers’
meet, whittled old timers
make up the stagger
chasing fit, neon
young men, just kids, quick
and yet to arrive.
After, they are hoarse
and slow. They jog
but soon stand staring
at the sheet of seconds and tenths
taped to the stadium
wall. They are speechless
and from the...
May 22, 2025 - 06:29 | Nicholas Bradley | Walrus
Good morning. Generational names have become an identity, a shorthand and a scapegoat – more on that below, along with Donald Trump’s latest Oval Office ambush and Canada’s newest NBA MVP. But first:Today’s headlinesCarney defends Canada’s Golden Dome talks with the U.S., saying missile threats are seriousCarney’s cabinet ministers get the same mandate letter listing ‘priorities’Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed in a Washington shooting
May 22, 2025 - 06:25 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
Two people have been arrested in the death of a child in Ontario more than two years ago.
May 22, 2025 - 06:15 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa