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Author: Liam Casey
Publication Date: January 26, 2026 - 15:14
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Marineland granted conditional approval to export remaining belugas to U.S.
January 26, 2026
Marineland’s belugas have cleared a significant hurdle after federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson conditionally approved the export of the theme park’s whales to the United States.
Thompson met with Marineland on Monday to discuss the proposed plan by the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction to ship its whales south. They are the last whales being held in captivity in Canada.
Unpublished Newswire
Conservative Party members from across the country are gathering today in downtown Calgary for the federal party’s convention, set to run through the weekend. They’ll cast non-binding votes on a variety of policies and conduct a mandatory leadership review. But their real task will be to demonstrate that the party is both unified and gaining momentum, even after a federal campaign this past April in which the Conservatives lost their grip on a twenty-four-point lead, and party leader Pierre Poilievre lost his own riding, allowing the Liberals to stay in power with a minority government....
January 29, 2026 - 06:30 | Claire Porter Robbins | Walrus
To pray, not to ask, but to have the line open.
To listen to the almost silence on the other end,
to know your almost silence
is being listened to as well (distant cars,
clicks of a keyboard, a child laughing),
to know your listening is being listened to
(both sides on speakerphone, no one speaking)
as you go about your respective days,
tiresome appointments, dark highways.
The sounds from either side coming through
that narrow frequency range, the crackle
and the hiss of this world,
of that world. And OK, maybe a few words
from you at the end of a hard day,
a few words from the voice...
January 29, 2026 - 06:29 | Raoul Fernandes | Walrus
Good morning. The Conservatives will decide tomorrow night if they should keep Pierre Poilievre around as leader – more on that below, along with the U.S. Democrats’ ICE demands and Canada’s Olympic flag-bearers. But first:
January 29, 2026 - 06:27 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
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