Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Jim Bronskill
Publication Date: May 7, 2025 - 06:55
Senior federal officials looking for ways to mend tears in Canada’s social fabric, document shows
May 7, 2025
Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don’t see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues.With a general election looming, officials prepared to meet last November to brainstorm solutions to the problem of social fragmentation, according to an internal presentation drafted by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Unpublished Newswire
Haul trucks, shovels, pumps and pipes are common sights at Imperial Oil’s vast oil sands operations in northeastern Alberta, but so too are robots and drones, with generative artificial intelligence a newer addition to the technological mix. “We’ve been laser-focused on this digital journey since 2018,” Cheryl Gomez-Smith, the senior executive in charge of Imperial’s production, told a recent investor conference.
May 11, 2025 - 09:34 | Lauren Krugel | The Globe and Mail
“Albertans feel an existential threat from Ottawa,” says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. “I think the rest of the country may feel an existential threat from Donald Trump. Alberta feels the same thing — but the existential threat, it’s from Ottawa.”
Nanos Research polls published one week after the federal election indicate nearly 30 per cent of Alberta residents support separation from Canada.
“The polls I’m seeing now,” Smith reports in a recent conversation, “suggest 30 to 40 per cent. That’s the highest I’ve ever seen.”
The premier agrees the surging numbers could reflect the...
May 11, 2025 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
Montreal police and the Sûreté du Québec are looking for a 48-year-old man who was last seen on Friday and whose car was located at a park in the Outaouais region.
May 11, 2025 - 08:07 | | CBC News - Ottawa
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