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Author: Alanna Smith
Publication Date: January 9, 2026 - 19:27
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Flu numbers start to ease after hitting three-year peak in December
January 9, 2026
Influenza cases peaked in late December, reaching a three-year high in Canada, but they continue to roar across the country.
Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada, updated on Friday, show the positivity rate for flu hit 33.3 per cent at the end of December – the highest rate recorded over the last three viral seasons. The previous record was 27.6 per cent in the 2024-25 season.
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February 7, 2026 - 07:15 | Lindsay Jones | The Globe and Mail
Harley Finkelstein is interested in buying the Hudson’s Bay sign recently removed from the exterior wall near the entrance to the company’s former Queen Street flagship store in Toronto.
“Who is calling for this removal? If this decision is done, I’d love to buy that sign and post it loud and proud for every entrepreneur to see. Can someone help me do this?,” Shopify’s president p
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February 7, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
TEL AVIV — With his slick black ponytail and confident stride, Dor Shachar emanates a kind of Israeli Jewish cool in the lobby of a luxe Tel Aviv hotel. But Shachar was born Ayman Abu Soobuch, a Muslim from Khan Younis in Gaza, where he was taught to hate Jews.
Born in 1977, he grew up in the alleys and markets where Hamas and other terror factions were local fixtures, long before the January 2006 elections that vaulted the Islamist group into power 20 years ago.
He watched the movement’s rise from the inside; he says the ideology represented not just the gunmen in balaclavas, but...
February 7, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
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