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Publication Date: January 6, 2026 - 04:00
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Websites are selling illegal drugs online. Here's why it's so hard to stop them
January 6, 2026
Advertisements on popular social media platforms are promoting illegal drugs for sale online, then shipping them through Canada Post. The problem, experts say, is much bigger than a few ads, or stopping some parcels.
In a few days, when the Canadian men’s hockey Olympic team laces up their skates for their first game at the Milan–Cortina Games, there’ll be someone missing: Quebec players.
The province has traditionally supplied an average of four Quebec-born players per squad since the National Hockey League began allowing teams to send players to Olympic rosters. In 2010, at the Vancouver Olympics, when Canada won gold, all three goalies were Quebecers: Martin Brodeur, Marc-André Fleury, and Roberto Luongo.
In a historic first, since 1952, Canada’s twenty-five-man hockey delegation won’t have anyone...
February 9, 2026 - 06:30 | Toula Drimonis | Walrus
I open the faucet and water gushes out, frothing as it fills a bright blue twenty-litre plastic jug, its faded sticker declaring BUILT TOUGH. You’ve probably seen one in the outdoors aisle at Canadian Tire: a cubic jug with a red or white screw-top faucet and a built-in handle for convenience. Most Canadians would associate the blue jug with camping trips.
I’m lugging six twenty-litre blue jugs in the back of my truck to my permanent residence outside of Whitehorse, a dwelling without running water known as a “dry cabin.” These 120 litres will last myself and my partner—and our three...
February 9, 2026 - 06:29 | Trina Moyles | Walrus
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February 9, 2026 - 06:00 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen






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