Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause, orders striking teachers back to work
October 27, 2025
The Alberta government has tabled legislation ordering thousands of striking teachers back to work, invoking the notwithstanding clause to put an end to their weeks-long job action. The bill imposes on teachers a previous deal they had already overwhelmingly rejected: a 12 per cent wage hike over four years and a promise to hire 3,000 more teachers. (Oct. 27, 2025)
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In the late 1960s, the urbanist Jane Jacobs bought a cavernous rooming house on Toronto’s Albany Avenue. She and her husband – a freelance writer and a young architect – moved their family into the Bohemian Annex.Forty years later, the house sold for $850,000 and got renovated. It’s now worth millions, and sports an Audi SUV in the driveway. The building remains; everything else has changed.
November 1, 2025 - 08:30 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
A new court ruling combines sociological analysis and the facts of a minor crime to create a new genre of narrative that could be called Rural Ontario Gothic. Here is that ruling, in the case of His Majesty the King and Neil Valliant, handed down October 21, 2025, in Pembroke, Ont., by Justice J.R. Richardson, who compellingly tells the story of a shooting that injured no one but revealed a great deal:
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November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
At 2 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 2, daylight saving time (DST) will end and clocks will “fall back” one hour for most Canadians, forcing people to adjust their sleep schedules.
In Canada, DST always starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
DST is practiced in over 70 countries and by an estimated one billion people globally, but how did Canada come to participate in this peculiar routine, and why do some provinces just not bother? What are the potential benefits and downsides? Here’s everything you need to know about daylight saving time ahead of...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | National Post | National Post
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