Unpublished Newswire
This story contains details about violence against children that some readers may find disturbing.
During the summer of 1994, the American Peterson family were holidaying in Canada. The parents, David and Paula, along with their children, Rachel (five years old) and William (almost two), were celebrating Paula’s birthday at an Ontario restaurant. At some point, David and the children left the restaurant to collect a gift for Paula that was in the car. The children were in the back seat and, as noted by the Ontario provincial court judge hearing the case, “almost immediately, young...
January 24, 2026 - 06:30 | Ailsa M. Watkinson | Walrus
On Jan. 19, 2026, the body of B.C. teen Piper James was found on K’gari, an island off the coast of Queensland. It was discovered in the early hours of the morning, surrounded by a pack of dingoes. An autopsy concluded signs of drowning, as well as extensive dingo bites inflicted after death. “Pre-mortem dingo bite marks are not likely to have caused immediate death,”
the coroner told reporters...
January 24, 2026 - 06:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Set for release Jan. 27, Lament for a Literature is the new book from Richard Stursberg, in which he laments the decline of Canadian literature, for which he blames multiple factors. In this excerpt, he addresses the impact of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, arguing they took over a badly weakened cultural sector from the Harper Conservatives and threw money at it without addressing the difficult structural issues affecting it, only making things worse. The government, he said, did not understand “that as Canadian media eroded and Canadians embraced the new foreign digital platforms, they...
January 24, 2026 - 06:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
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January 24, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
Following his successful (?) trade trip to China, PM Mark Carney announced that he "expects" Chinese investment will be forthcoming to Ontario's automotive sector. My definition of "expects" as he expressed it is that there will possibly, or tentatively, be investment money coming. Read More
January 24, 2026 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
In late 2023, preparing for a hearing at the Supreme Court of Canada, lawyer Jeremy Opolsky wondered how much time he would have before the judges launched their fusillade of questions.The general answer, he knew, was not much time at all – and, indeed, in the courtroom on a corporate bankruptcy case, Mr. Opolsky had spoken for 72 seconds when Justice Suzanne Côté interjected with a query.
January 24, 2026 - 05:00 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
