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  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • Thousands of public servants seek exemptions to Ontario’s return-to-office mandate
    Thousands of public servants have requested exemptions to the Ontario government’s upcoming order to return to the office full-time, as unions say they are set to meet with the province’s top bureaucrat later this month to plead their case for flexible work arrangements.Dave Bulmer, president of Ontario’s professional employees union AMAPCEO – which has 17,000 members – said there have been about 4,500 requests for remote or hybrid work arrangements in the last three weeks.
     

Thousands of public servants seek exemptions to Ontario’s return-to-office mandate

18 septembre 2025 à 17:55
Protestors at the All Out For Remote Work Rally on Sept. 18, 2025. Several hundred provincial civil servants took part in the rally in front of Whitney Block, the building across from Queen’s Park in Toronto.

Thousands of public servants have requested exemptions to the Ontario government’s upcoming order to return to the office full-time, as unions say they are set to meet with the province’s top bureaucrat later this month to plead their case for flexible work arrangements.

Dave Bulmer, president of Ontario’s professional employees union AMAPCEO – which has 17,000 members – said there have been about 4,500 requests for remote or hybrid work arrangements in the last three weeks.

Canada Post sending new offers to union with aim of moving talks forward

18 septembre 2025 à 16:32

Canada Post is sending new offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in an effort to move negotiations forward, the postal service said Thursday.

The new terms will allow the two sides to return to the bargaining table next week, with work already underway to make that happen, the Crown corporation said.

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A Canada Post vehicle with a frequent stops sticker is seen at a facility in Ottawa, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • Holocaust survivor Fania Fainer’s memento became a symbol of resilience and friendship
    When Sandy Fainer was growing up in Toronto in the 1950s, she loved reading Nancy Drew mystery books and channelled her admiration for the girl detective by conducting her own investigations in the family’s suburban bungalow. “I was snooping through my mother’s underwear and found it,” she recalled. It was what her mother, Fania Fainer, called in Yiddish “the little book,” a tiny heart-shaped autograph book covered in purple fabric, with a letter F stitched onto the cover.
     

Holocaust survivor Fania Fainer’s memento became a symbol of resilience and friendship

18 septembre 2025 à 16:28
Fania Fainer.

When Sandy Fainer was growing up in Toronto in the 1950s, she loved reading Nancy Drew mystery books and channelled her admiration for the girl detective by conducting her own investigations in the family’s suburban bungalow.

“I was snooping through my mother’s underwear and found it,” she recalled. It was what her mother, Fania Fainer, called in Yiddish “the little book,” a tiny heart-shaped autograph book covered in purple fabric, with a letter F stitched onto the cover.

What survivors learned from Canada’s worst wildfires

18 septembre 2025 à 12:40

When fires burned near towns or villages in the past, they were stamped out, and fast. “Redshirts,” as Canada’s wildland firefighters are still known – although they wear banana yellow now – reliably came to the rescue.

Those days are over.

© DARREN HULL

Residents watch the McDougall Creek wildfire in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on August 17, 2023, from Kelowna. Evacuation orders were put in place for areas near Kelowna, as the fire threatened the city of around 150,000. Canada is experiencing a record-setting wildfire season, with official estimates of over 13.7 million hectares (33.9 million acres) already scorched. Four people have died so far. (Photo by Darren HULL / AFP) (Photo by DARREN HULL/AFP via Getty Images)
  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • RCMP recover $56-million from cryptocurrency platform called TradeOgre
    The RCMP say they have taken down a cryptocurrency platform that was being used mainly for criminal transactions, what the force claims is the largest crypto bust in Canadian history. In a statement Thursday, the force’s federal policing wing in Quebec said it had recovered $56-million from a platform known as TradeOgre, “the first time that a cryptocurrency exchange platform has been dismantled by Canadian law enforcement.”
     

RCMP recover $56-million from cryptocurrency platform called TradeOgre

18 septembre 2025 à 12:32
The RCMP said their money-laundering team began an investigation last year after a tip from European authorities

The RCMP say they have taken down a cryptocurrency platform that was being used mainly for criminal transactions, what the force claims is the largest crypto bust in Canadian history.

In a statement Thursday, the force’s federal policing wing in Quebec said it had recovered $56-million from a platform known as TradeOgre, “the first time that a cryptocurrency exchange platform has been dismantled by Canadian law enforcement.”

  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • Number of asylum seekers turned back by Canada grows despite U.S. deportation threat
    Canada’s government is sending more asylum-seekers hoping to file claims in Canada back to the U.S. under a bilateral pact, even as the U.S. says it may deport them to third countries. Some of the people Canada is turning back should be eligible to file refugee claims in Canada, lawyers say, under exemptions to the Safe Third Country Agreement. The agreement broadly requires asylum-seekers at the Canada-U.S. border to be sent back to the first of the two countries they entered but allows some pe
     

Number of asylum seekers turned back by Canada grows despite U.S. deportation threat

18 septembre 2025 à 12:10
Asylum seekers cross into Canada from the U.S. border near a checkpoint on Roxham Road near Hemmingford, Que., in 2022. Canada turned back 3,282 people under the Safe Third Country Agreement in the first eight months of 2025.

Canada’s government is sending more asylum-seekers hoping to file claims in Canada back to the U.S. under a bilateral pact, even as the U.S. says it may deport them to third countries.

Some of the people Canada is turning back should be eligible to file refugee claims in Canada, lawyers say, under exemptions to the Safe Third Country Agreement. The agreement broadly requires asylum-seekers at the Canada-U.S. border to be sent back to the first of the two countries they entered but allows some people - for example those with close family in Canada or stateless persons - to file claims.

Premier Smith’s Alberta Next panel met with praise, pushed to act in Grande Prairie

18 septembre 2025 à 11:02
The Alberta Next panel will host a final in-person town hall in Calgary at the end of the month.

Premier Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next panel, aimed at wrenching more political control from Ottawa, was spurred to take action in Grande Prairie Wednesday.

The panel is expected to eventually pick six ideas that could become potential referendum questions, and the naysayers were again outnumbered in a packed house of more than 500 attendees.

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  • Progressive groups plan protests to challenge parts of Carney agenda
    Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging “common front” to elements of the new Liberal government’s agenda.Prime Minister Mark Carney’s support for new fossil-fuel projects, expected public service cuts, expanded military support and new border measures are some of the concerns motivating Saturday’s co-ordinated day of action, organizers of the Draw The Line protests say.
     

Progressive groups plan protests to challenge parts of Carney agenda

18 septembre 2025 à 10:49
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s support for new fossil fuel projects and expected public service cuts are among some of the concerns motivating Saturday’s protests.

Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging “common front” to elements of the new Liberal government’s agenda.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s support for new fossil-fuel projects, expected public service cuts, expanded military support and new border measures are some of the concerns motivating Saturday’s co-ordinated day of action, organizers of the Draw The Line protests say.

  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • Sarah McLachlan considers if Lilith Fair could ever be revived
    Vancouver-based musician Sarah McLachlan says working on the new documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery kicked up old emotions tied to her memories of the influential all-female tour. But she says if it were ever to be revived for another iteration it would have to be done by a younger artists. The film is streaming on CBC Gem and premieres on Hulu in the United States on Sept. 21.
     

Sarah McLachlan considers if Lilith Fair could ever be revived

18 septembre 2025 à 09:17
Vancouver-based musician Sarah McLachlan says working on the new documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery kicked up old emotions tied to her memories of the influential all-female tour. But she says if it were ever to be revived for another iteration it would have to be done by a younger artists. The film is streaming on CBC Gem and premieres on Hulu in the United States on Sept. 21.

  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • Telus partners with Samsung on software platform to drive AI-powered networks
    Telus Corp. T-T is partnering with Samsung to deploy what it calls Canada’s first commercial radio access network intelligent controller, a software platform that will help eventually deliver networks fully powered by artificial intelligence.Samsung said its technology will enable automation, enhanced energy efficiency and optimized performance across Telus’s wireless network.
     

Telus partners with Samsung on software platform to drive AI-powered networks

18 septembre 2025 à 08:48
Samsung Canada's head of networks says the partnership will allow Telus to run a more robust, high-performing network, reduce energy consumption and automate certain tasks.

Telus Corp. T-T is partnering with Samsung to deploy what it calls Canada’s first commercial radio access network intelligent controller, a software platform that will help eventually deliver networks fully powered by artificial intelligence.

Samsung said its technology will enable automation, enhanced energy efficiency and optimized performance across Telus’s wireless network.

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