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Author: Prisha Dev
Publication Date: January 16, 2026 - 18:47
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Ottawa reduces Toronto housing funding, cancels Red Deer agreement
January 16, 2026
Ottawa is cancelling Red Deer’s housing deal and cutting funding for Toronto and Vaughan after the cities failed to meet commitments under the Housing Accelerator Fund.
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A 12-year-old girl who was gravely injured during the shooting at B.C.’s Tumbler Ridge Secondary School was trying to protect her classmates, a relative says.
Maya Gebala was one of at least two dozen children and teachers wounded when Jesse Van Rootselaar opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, killing eight people in total, including two at a nearby residence, before dying of a self-inflected wound, police say.
Krysta Hunt, a cousin of Maya’s mother...
February 12, 2026 - 17:43 | Chris Knight | National Post
Their job was to draw the shooter’s gunfire.
Mounties who responded to the deadly mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Tuesday were likely scared and full of adrenaline, but they did what their training prescribes, according to West Kelowna-Peachland MLA Macklin McCall, the Conservative party’s critic for Public Safety, and a former RCMP officer with two decades of policing under his belt.
“Those RCMP officers from the local Tumbler Ridge RCMP detachment are heroes, quite frankly,” McCall said Thursday.
“Those officers responded in 120 seconds … to an active threat...
February 12, 2026 - 17:16 | Chris Lambie | National Post
We’re now well past the Conservative Party’s convention. As you might have noticed, Pierre Poilievre, his caucus, and every Conservative with a social media account have been very happy to point out that Poilievre received 87.4 percent approval in his leadership review. With that, combined with Harperpalooza taking over Ottawa, the message is clear: the party is UNITED.
I wasn’t surprised by the result. I’m a pollster by trade, and my team didn’t see any organizing against Poilievre. As my polling from the fall showed, most of the party’s voters don’t have a personal problem with...
February 12, 2026 - 17:12 | Kyla Ronellenfitsch | Walrus
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