Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Nancy Macdonald, Mike Hager
Publication Date: October 15, 2025 - 05:00
Lapu-Lapu festival suspect should have been in hospital before attack, experts say
October 15, 2025
The man accused of driving an SUV through a crowded street festival in Vancouver this spring, killing 11, should have been hospitalized by his mental-health team in the days before the attack, say four past and present members of a tribunal that oversees involuntary hospital detentions.
These members of the Mental Health Review Board of British Columbia say Kai-Ji Adam Lo’s behaviour before the April 26 attack on the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival should have raised multiple red flags for members of his health team, who are trained to recognize them.
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The Canadian postsecondary system should consider major changes to meet the economic challenges facing the country, according to a new report from Royal Bank of Canada.The report, published this week, calls for a “postsecondary pivot” to advance national goals. It’s based on the input of about 60 industry and postsecondary leaders who met in Toronto last month at a session convened by RBC Thought Leadership and the Business + Higher Education Roundtable. The focus was on how Canada can produce the talent needed to reorient its economy in response to trade disruptions.
October 16, 2025 - 17:34 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
Like hundreds of thousands of other Canadian teenagers who came of age during the Second World War, Gordon Quan yearned to fight for his country. But there was nothing typical in his quest. In those days of rampant racism, Chinese-Canadians had no citizenship rights. They were unable to vote, cloistered in their community’s Chinatowns and excluded from most professions. Those exclusions extended to the armed forces, which consistently turned away aspiring Chinese-Canadian recruits from British Columbia, who were willing to serve despite their second-class status in Canada. Mr. Quan was...
October 16, 2025 - 16:59 | Rod Mickleburgh | The Globe and Mail
Queen’s and Kingston officials expect a quieter homecoming due to reading week, with police focusing on education and safety ahead of next weekend’s 'faux-coming.'
October 16, 2025 - 16:27 | Paul Soucy | Global News - Canada
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