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Author: Jill Mahoney, Tom Cardoso, Ian Bailey, Meera Raman, Tavia Grant, Gayle MacDonald
Publication Date: January 26, 2026 - 21:46
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Toronto digs out after a record snowfall
January 26, 2026
In Toronto’s west end, eager kids carrying toboggans took over the “dog bowl,” a steep pit in Trinity Bellwoods Park usually reserved for four-legged fun seekers.
Nearby, Darryl Spector helped shovel out a Mini Cooper, which had become beached on a snow-covered street. “Once you start driving, don’t stop,” he told the driver as he got the car on its way.
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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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