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Publication Date: January 29, 2026 - 11:00
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No sea ice, no problem for these Barents Sea bears — for now
January 29, 2026
Studying close to 800 bears over nearly 25 years shows that polar bear populations in the rapidly warming Barents Sea, off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, are doing better than polar bears in other parts of the Arctic.
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In the beginning, there were pigs. Domestic breeds, such as Duroc, Landrace and Yorkshire have been staples of the Prairie Provinces for more than a century, and while plenty escaped their resident farms over the years, few survived their first Saskatchewan winter.
Then came European wild boar, a species imported gleefully throughout the 1980s to diversify Canada’s livestock sector. For meat, and for “shoot farms,” boars materialized in most Canadian provinces, but especially in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. When these escaped their resident farms, the result was a slow-moving...
February 20, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
“I’m the most hated man in town,” Ray McKelvie told me. The town in question was Clinton, British Columbia, approximately 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, on Highway 97. Later, I asked another Clinton resident whether McKelvie’s claim was true. She thought for a moment. “Well, there’s Joe, who lives in the trailer park,” she said. “We don’t like him much either. But it’s about even.”
McKelvie and I were sitting in the North Road Trading Post, the antique store McKelvie ran in a converted gas station at the north end of town. The garage and lot were dotted with rusty vehicles, some...
February 20, 2026 - 06:30 | Steve Burgess | Walrus
Good morning. A Globe and Mail survey has found that Canadians aren’t feeling the love, but some of the results might surprise you. More on that below, along with heartbreak in women’s hockey at the Olympics and proposed protections for those who fall victim to fraud. But first:
February 20, 2026 - 06:16 | Graham Isador | The Globe and Mail
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