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Real Canadians: Doctor takes passion for mountain biking to the trails

What do you do when you recognize the village doctor’s vehicle pulled over on the side of the road? You stop to see if he needs help of course. When you find out he’s trying to build a mountain bike trail with all the wrong tools, you head back to your house to get some tools and start helping — even though you don’t own a mountain bike and you’re pretty sure this is a harebrained idea. Read More
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Chris Selley: The Order of Canada provides far more division than unity

It is hardly surprising, in the year 2025, to see a public figure strung up — figuratively, thank goodness — for something he didn’t quite say or mean. If cinema is “a machine that creates empathy,” as critic Roger Ebert once said, then social media is something like the opposite: a machine for grinding people into the radioactive dust of their own presumed worst intentions. Read More
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Margaret Atwood pens ‘suitable’ story for teens as Alberta pauses order to remove sexually explicit content for students

Canadian author Margaret Atwood penned a satirical short story "suitable" for teens over the weekend in response to the Edmonton school board following a government directive to crack down on sexually explicit material for students. The directive was paused Tuesday afternoon. Read More
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Welland man facing child sex assault charge freed early after similar attack, victim family says

A 25-year-old man who police allege forced his way into a home during the night in Welland, Ont., and violently sexually assaulted a toddler inside has been arrested and charged — and neighbours and friends say they are outraged that the man had been released from jail in March from a previous child sex offence. Read More
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