Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Temur Durrani, Matthew Konhauser, Mike Hager
Publication Date: May 30, 2025 - 21:36
Wildfires force thousands to flee homes in Western Canada
May 30, 2025
Wildfires across Western Canada have forced thousands of people from their homes, as dry, warm and windy temperatures intensified new flares Friday, causing Manitoba to ask for international help. Manitoba and Saskatchewan are under provincewide states of emergency for the next month, while evacuations have also been ordered in large parts of Alberta and British Columbia.
Unpublished Newswire
A driver who has racked up 32 driving prohibitions or suspensions, as well as 16 24-hour driving bans, failed to convince a British Columbia judge he should get a lighter sentence than normal for drunk driving because more than six months in jail could get him deported to India.
Vernon’s Gurinder Pal Singh Bajwa, a permanent resident of Canada who escaped deportation in 2019 on an impaired driving conviction with a sentence of five months and 29 days, got a reduced sentence this time around because Mounties
captured him...
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For more than three decades, Barrie Sketchley has led Rosedale Heights, an art-focused high school near Toronto’s tony Rosedale-Moore Park neighbourhood.
Now more than 80 years old, Sketchley’s fate will be decided on Monday when the board of trustees votes to approve — or reject — suggestions on principal assignments made by Toronto District School Board (TDSB) staff. Sketchley is expected to be forced to leave the school he helped build into something students and parents say is pretty special. And they are outraged and upset, racing against the clock to save his job. This is all...
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I deas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right around the world, and they find new niches in which to flourish.
One day in October 1971, a young academic called Christopher Stone was giving a seminar on property law at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. It had been an intense class; the students were tired and distracted. Pens were being twirled, windows stared out of. Stone decided to have a last shot at regaining their interest. What he said then jolted the students...
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