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Author: Marcus Gee
Publication Date: January 24, 2026 - 04:35
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What Toronto can learn about transit, museums and parks from Melbourne
January 24, 2026
Melbourne and Toronto are similar in many ways.
Both began their modern lives as distant outposts of the British Empire and grew into vibrant, prosperous cities. Both have been enriched by waves of immigration from first Europe, then Asia. Both boast thriving downtowns with thickets of glass towers. Both are national hubs for finance and the arts. And both are home to roughly a fifth of the national population, when their hinterlands are factored in.
Unpublished Newswire
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
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