Rideau Hall says Governor-General Mary Simon was released from hospital today and is now recovering at home.
The 78-year-old head of state missed the annual Remembrance Day service in Ottawa on Tuesday after being hospitalized with a respiratory illness.
The Ontario Provincial Police’s anti-rackets branch is looking into a company that has received more than $40-million from the provincial government, in order to determine whether to launch a criminal investigation.
The force confirmed on Friday that the government had referred “suspicious activity” related to transfer payments to the company, an online counselling platform called Get A-Head.
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Jarrod Dyer Cambridge says he can go another week before washing his Tyson Philpot jersey — at least until the end of Sunday’s Grey Cup championship between the Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The Montrealer hasn’t washed the wide receiver’s No. 6 jersey since the Canadian Football League season began in June and has worn it to every Alouettes game since then. He believes leaving the jersey steeped in body odour is good luck — washing it can jinx the team.
The interim Parliamentary Budget Officer released a report Friday that includes strong criticism of the Liberal government’s 2025 budget, saying it takes an overly broad definition of capital spending and includes fiscal targets that are unlikely to be met.
One key element of the Nov. 4 budget was a new financial presentation that divides all spending into either operational or capital spending.
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The former registrar of the Real Estate Council of Ontario was contemplating an unusual deal with the principals of iPro Realty Ltd. just minutes after learning of a multimillion-dollar shortfall in consumer trust accounts held by one of Ontario’s largest brokerages.
That was among the findings of a recent report from Dentons LLP to investigate RECO’s mishandling of the iPro situation. It was commissioned by RECO’s board of directors on Aug. 22, the same day that registrar Joseph Richer left the organization.
Many words have been used to describe Tony Merchant. He’s been called “the king of class action” (Regina Leader-Post), “living proof of the maxim that there is no such thing as bad publicity” (Maclean’s magazine), “The Merchant of Menace,” (Globe and Mail), “quite possibly the last guy you want to see across from you in a court of law” (Canadian Lawyer Magazine), “a god in my eyes” (former client Flora Northwest), a man of “sleazy standards” (former PC MP Jim Balfour) and “candid, intelligent, loyal, organized, goal-organized and productive, made for television” (Tony Merchant).
One of Canada’s best known and arguably most controversial lawyers, Mr. Merchant was a politician, radio host, and pugnacious litigator who filed reams of class-action lawsuits on everything from asbestos to breast implants, repeatedly battled allegations of unethical behaviour and financial impropriety, and ultimately became the single biggest advocate for – and beneficiary of – the federal government’s settlement payout to survivors of Indigenous residential schools.
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A team at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto has successfully completed 10 brain angiograms using a robot controlled remotely by a neurosurgeon, paving the way to eventually providing critical stroke care to patients in northern Ontario.
A brain angiogram is a minimally invasive diagnostic procedure where doctors place a catheter in the femoral artery through the groin and thread it up to the brain, then inject contrast dye that allows the medical team to see any problems in the blood vessels with an X-ray.
Good morning. For the next year, The Globe will be exploring our relationship with time, for better and for worse. More on that below, plus news on pharmaceutical temperature troubles and India’s issue with pollution. But first:
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Twenty years ago, Cosmo Jacobson was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of a Crown witness who had been set to testify against him for charges in an earlier home-invasion case.
Last week, he participated as a speaker at a seminar for some judges on the Ontario Court of Justice in a panel about the treatment of inmates and conditions of life behind bars.
Now, some attendees are complaining. A written statement from Jason Gennaro, a spokesman for the court, said some had “expressed concerns about the panel.” Correspondence was sent to all 356 judges on the Court of Justice to acknowledge the concerns.
Nathan Rourke led a West Division sweep of the CFL’s individual awards Thursday night.
The B.C. Lions quarterback earned the George Reed Trophy as the CFL’s outstanding player and was also named top Canadian at the league’s awards banquet. Rourke joins Brady Oliveira, Jon Cornish, Russ Jackson and Tony Gabriel as the only players to capture both honours in the same year.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Thursday said an agreement with Ottawa is expected to be signed in the coming days that would address federal regulations she has repeatedly said hamper private-sector investment in the energy industry.
The Premier said she is also encouraged by the latest batch of projects announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney this week that will be fast-tracked through his government’s newly created Major Projects Office, headed by former Trans Mountain Corp. chief executive Dawn Farrell in Calgary.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s chief of staff is warning employees not to have any contact with a company that received about $40-million from the province, after the government referred findings from a forensic audit scrutinizing the business to the Ontario Provincial Police, according to an e-mail obtained by The Globe and Mail.
The company, an online counselling platform, received more than $32-million from the Ministry of Colleges and Universities since 2020. It was also awarded $7.5-million in grants approved by Labour Minister David Piccini’s office from the Skills Development Fund.
Health Canada says more than $20-million worth of pharmaceutical products were lost from the national stockpile this year because of a temperature-control issue, spurring a call from the federal Conservative health critic for a House of Commons investigation.
The department confirmed the incident on Thursday after figures were identified in the public accounts, an annual financial report on government revenues and spending, and reported by The Canadian Press.
Seven games into his tenure as Canada rugby coach, the learning continues for Stephen Meehan.
Club commitments, injuries and the demands of everything from work to school have affected his squad selection since taking over earlier this year. While the veteran Australian coach is not complaining, it hasn’t helped in making connections on the playing field.
One of Don Hewitt’s core memories from three years as the furry, minuscule mascot of the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the late 1970s can be summed up in two letters — P.U.
“They’d wash the suit once at the end of the season, and it just stunk,” Hewitt said of the rancid Gainer the Gopher getup.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge says self-defence rules that allow people to arm themselves against an intruder can also include situations where someone refuses to leave after initially being welcomed.
The ruling comes in the case of a B.C. man acquitted of manslaughter by a jury in July, after he accidentally stabbed and killed his brother who had become an unwelcome guest in his home on the Ditidaht First Nation reserve on Vancouver Island.
Major League Soccer is changing its schedule to start in summer and end in spring starting in 2027.
MLS says in a release that the move, approved Thursday by the league’s board of governors, is one of the most significant developments in the league’s history.
The British Columbia General Employees’ Union has voted to ratify an agreement with the provincial government, marking the “official end” to a public sector strike that lasted eight weeks.
The union said in a statement Thursday that 79 per cent of members participated in the vote, and 89 per cent voted in favour of the deal that includes a 3 per cent wage increase each year for four years.
An unfolding corruption scandal in Ukraine will not deter Canada from continuing its support for the war-torn country, but Ottawa expects Kyiv to implement reforms to fight graft, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said on Thursday.
Anti-corruption authorities said this week that they had detained five people and identified two others suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to control procurement at the country’s nuclear agency, Energoatom, and other state enterprises.
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Under the leadership of Dawn Farrell, Canada’s new Major Projects Office is considering a number of priority projects to help fast-track through existing regulatory frameworks.
They include both projects that are under way and ones that are looking for proponents in the private or public sector.
The list of five projects announced in September and six projects announced Thursday – all of them perceived by the MPO as vital to nation-building – includes new or expanded developments in energy, port infrastructure, critical minerals mining and public infrastructure. They represent billions of dollars’ worth of investment.
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The Art Gallery of Ontario says it has received a significant gift of more than 450 pieces of art, including works by pop titans Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney.
The trove of modern and contemporary works comes from the family of late Toronto art patrons Carol and Morton Rapp.
A growing number of people are filing complaints to Ontario’s patient ombudsman office, which says it wrapped a record number of investigations last year including a case where a person was discharged by a hospital without being told they had cancer.
The Patient Ombudsman’s annual report released Thursday says there were 4,886 new complaints filed between April, 2024 and March, 2025, a 10 per cent increase over the year before. It also notes it resolved 4,863 complaints, some of which carry year-over-year.
Canadians continued to steer clear of the United States in October, with the month marking yet another major drop in year-over-year visitors.
The number of Canadian residents who returned by car from the U.S. fell to 1.4 million in October, a 30.5-per-cent drop from the same period in 2024, according to preliminary data from Statistics Canada.
The Public Health Agency of Canada lost more than $20-million worth of pharmaceutical products from the national stockpile this year because of what it calls a “temperature deviation.”
The figure was reported in the 2025 public accounts but Health Canada refuses to say what was lost, citing national security implications.
In a statement, Health Canada says the line item refers to pharmaceutical products such as vaccines held in the national emergency stockpile.
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Good morning. Donald Trump’s shutdown victory barely lasted a day before a fresh batch of Jeffery Epstein e-mails dropped – more on that below, along with the spike in beef prices and Pierre Poilievre’s leadership style. But first:
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The Doug Ford government says it has sent the Ontario Provincial Police the results of a forensic audit scrutinizing a company that received about $40-million from the province – including millions from a controversial worker-training fund.
The Office of the Premier also said the government is reviewing all payments made to the company and could take further action.
York Regional Police say they’ve charged five people in connection with an August home invasion in Vaughan, Ont., that left a father dead.
Police say at least three male suspects broke into Abdul Aleem Farooqi’s home around 1 a.m. on Aug. 31 and allegedly stole cellphones for “monetary gain only” before fatally shooting the man.
Insp. Paolo Fiore says one of those suspects is a 26-year-old Mississauga, Ont., man who now faces charges including first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he has not reflected on his leadership style after losing two members of his caucus last week.
In his first remarks since Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont crossed the floor to join the Liberals and Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux announced his resignation, Mr. Poilievre pointed to Mr. d’Entremont’s past comments critiquing the current government.
In the 1970s, decades before the term Big Data entered the lexicon, computer scientist David Keith revelled in building massive databases and writing comprehensible programming language so users could get the most out of those treasure troves of information.
“He had the idea that data was of value and that he needed to democratize it to make it accessible to people who were not computing professionals. This was unusual at the time,” says software executive Leslie Goldsmith, a protégé and former colleague
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to add the North Coast Transmission Line in British Columbia and the Nouveau Monde Graphite NOU-T battery project in Quebec to his government’s list of nation-building projects, a source told The Globe and Mail.
Mr. Carney is expected to announce the two additions to the list in northern British Columbia on Thursday, as part of the second group of developments to be fast-tracked by his government through Ottawa’s Major Projects Office. An initial group of five projects was announced in September.
The head of a union representing transit maintenance workers said members aren’t giving up on their fight for better wages and conditions, despite new legislation that will give the Quebec government greater power to end strikes.
Montreal’s public transit network was gradually returning to normal on Wednesday after the union decided to suspend its strike about two weeks early.
Baytex Energy Corp. BTE-T says it has signed a deal to sell its U.S. Eagle Ford assets to an undisclosed buyer for about $3.25-billion in a move to focus on its operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The company says the light oil Eagle Ford operations in Texas represent all of its U.S. business.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday scored a legal victory in his government’s push to allow internet gamblers in the province to bet in games with players outside of Canada.
In early 2024, the government asked the province’s top court for an interpretation of the Criminal Code on whether bettors in Ontario were allowed to play in online games with players from outside the country.
Weak policies, insufficient training and a lack of specialized treatment are hindering the Correctional Service of Canada’s efforts to deliver mental health care, the federal prison ombudsman says in his latest annual report.
Correctional investigator Ivan Zinger says it’s “abundantly clear” the prison service is fundamentally ill-equipped to provide long-term mental health care to people experiencing acute psychiatric distress, suicidal thoughts or chronic self-injury.
Holiday job postings are a little more plentiful this year, but that’s hardly a respite for job seekers as competition for those positions is expected to be tough with unemployment still elevated, a new report shows.
Indeed Canada’s holiday hiring trends report released Wednesday finds seasonal postings so far this winter are up 12 per cent from last year, though still weak relative to earlier years.
Good morning. Once you read the fine print, the federal budget’s housing plan is far from a generational investment – more on that below, along with the U.S. military buildup near Venezuela and a flood of A.I.-written resumes. But first:
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