Source Feed: Ottawa Citizen
Author: Joanne Laucius
Publication Date: October 7, 2025 - 04:00
As federal funding for hotels for asylum seekers ends, Ottawa seeks solutions
October 7, 2025
The federal government's decision to withdraw funding for hotel rooms for asylum seekers has raised concerns that the costs and responsibilities will trickle down to municipalities and non-profits. Read More
Unpublished Newswire
Toronto’s cooling condo market is pushing out investors and opening the door for first-time buyers as prices drop and power shifts to buyers.
October 23, 2025 - 07:00 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Ottawa
Who’s ready for a recession? Almost no one, of course. Certainly not the millions of Canadians—more than half the country—living paycheque to paycheque. Nor those, likely many of the same people, who’ve collectively sunk $2.5 trillion into consumer debt, $122 billion of which is owed to credit card companies. Canada has weathered recessions before, but the forecast today looks severe, darkened by problems like record-high youth unemployment. If the downturn comes, it may not be a passing squall we can just ride out.
It’s little wonder the Bank of Canada is trying to calm fears. In...
October 23, 2025 - 06:30 | David Moscrop | Walrus
He was a Trappist and a chatterbox,
guestmaster at the little orchard house
in Georgetown, aging man of paradox
if not comedy. Father Canisius
welcomed us with hours of talk
on silence and the use of mantras.
He had a history of chat: twenty-five
years a garrulous Jesuit before his leap
to Benedict and the cheese-maker monks,
Oka’s most unsilent man. He nearly burst.
An abbot pitied all the pent-up words,
sent him to this daughter-house as greeter
to talk at will, just not to his chanting brothers.
Novice SJs, high on Merton, we drove from
Guelph to see these monks and their apple trees...
October 23, 2025 - 06:29 | Richard Greene | Walrus
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