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Author: Lindsay Jones, Marcus Gee
Publication Date: January 4, 2026 - 20:05
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Venezuelans living across Canada carry complex feelings about Maduro’s ouster
January 4, 2026
Juliana Fombona said she felt a surge of hope when she learned that the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas on Saturday. But that optimism was fleeting as she began to ponder what the future might hold.
The same political forces behind Mr. Maduro are still entrenched in her home country despite his removal, said Ms. Fombona, an architect who has lived in Halifax for 23 years. And it’s still unclear who will run Venezuela, whether democracy will be restored and when the humanitarian crisis may improve.
Unpublished Newswire
Toronto residents should give themselves a bit more time to get where they’re going this morning as the city digs out from a weekend snowstorm.City manager Paul Johnson told a news conference yesterday that it’s likely going to be a couple of days until the snow is cleared all the way to the curb.
January 26, 2026 - 05:47 | | The Globe and Mail
Before Ryan Wedding was arrested last week as one of the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted fugitives, and before he was charged a decade earlier for masterminding a plot to sail thousands of kilos of cocaine up from the Caribbean to Canada’s East Coast, Canadian police viewed the former Olympic snowboarder as one of the many middling profiteers in Metro Vancouver’s massive underground cannabis trade.It was 2006, and Mounties, acting on an anonymous tip given to the Vancouver police, raided a farm in the eastern suburb of Maple Ridge. There they found thousands of pot plants and dozens of...
January 26, 2026 - 05:00 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
The internal push to prevent the Art Gallery of Ontario from acquiring a work by photographer-activist Nan Goldin last year – which has led to four resignations – was prompted by the philanthropic executive Judy Schulich, according to documentation reviewed by The Globe and Mail.The Globe reported last week that the Toronto gallery’s modern and contemporary collections committee narrowly voted to not acquire Ms. Goldin’s video work, Stendhal Syndrome, after a heated discussion during a meeting in May, 2025. In the meeting, some committee members alleged that the Jewish-American artist’s...
January 26, 2026 - 05:00 | Josh O’Kane | The Globe and Mail
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