YOU SAID IT: Calm down, Dougie | Page 25 | Unpublished
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Author: Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen
Publication Date: January 29, 2026 - 05:00

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YOU SAID IT: Calm down, Dougie

January 29, 2026
Just spitballing here, but say you own a company — for the sake of argument, let's call it Crown Royal — that is losing money. Is it the mandate of its board of directors to protect the shareholders by trying to stem the flow of red ink? Premier Doug Ford doesn't think so. He certainly doesn't agree with their solution. The only thing Ford is doing is providing the people of the province of Ontario, and by extension the people of Canada, with great gorilla theatre. Read More


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In a few days, when the Canadian men’s hockey Olympic team laces up their skates for their first game at the Milan–Cortina Games, there’ll be someone missing: Quebec players. The province has traditionally supplied an average of four Quebec-born players per squad since the National Hockey League began allowing teams to send players to Olympic rosters. In 2010, at the Vancouver Olympics, when Canada won gold, all three goalies were Quebecers: Martin Brodeur, Marc-André Fleury, and Roberto Luongo. In a historic first, since 1952, Canada’s twenty-five-man hockey delegation won’t have anyone...
February 9, 2026 - 06:30 | Toula Drimonis | Walrus
I open the faucet and water gushes out, frothing as it fills a bright blue twenty-litre plastic jug, its faded sticker declaring BUILT TOUGH. You’ve probably seen one in the outdoors aisle at Canadian Tire: a cubic jug with a red or white screw-top faucet and a built-in handle for convenience. Most Canadians would associate the blue jug with camping trips. I’m lugging six twenty-litre blue jugs in the back of my truck to my permanent residence outside of Whitehorse, a dwelling without running water known as a “dry cabin.” These 120 litres will last myself and my partner—and our three...
February 9, 2026 - 06:29 | Trina Moyles | Walrus
Brady Tkachuk is ready to dig for gold. Read More
February 9, 2026 - 06:00 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen