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Publication Date: February 2, 2026 - 18:02
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Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. February 2nd, 2026
February 2, 2026
The wheels to manufacture Canada’s first high-speed rail network are in motion. Today, the discussion shifts to the network’s transit hubs, and the best locations to put them. Is the old Union Station the best spot for Canada’s Capital? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Plus, it’s a Monday afternoon, which means it’s time to talk politics with our Political Heat Panel. And this week, the idea of an Alberta separation is on everyone’s mind.
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Conservative delegates’ resounding show of support for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership in Calgary is more interesting than a more tentative vote would have been. The way people talk about Poilievre in Ottawa and Toronto, including a lot of long-time Conservatives, suggests they think he’s trying to be like Prime Minister Mark Carney, and he’s bad at it. The weekend’s events in Calgary suggest Poilievre’s trying to be different from Carney, and that the party thinks he’s good at it.
No leader is safe forever. Three more floor-crossing members of Parliament or some unimaginable caucus revolt...
February 5, 2026 - 06:30 | Paul Wells | Walrus
Underpants
My Value Village doesn’t take underwear.
I could not possibly throw nearly a month’s
worth of his briefs down the chute
to be landfill-crushed, so I’ve made them a lair
in one of my own deep drawers. Do I hear
them thrumming in there? They don’t feel
like they were ever filled by him. Their condition,
flattened, piled like leaves, is spiritual,
the most disembodied of underpants
never again waiting to wrap his ass,
his athlete’s glutes — nor expecting to.
They’re now the residents of a dresser,
tame sirens of the derrière,
red, navy, black in a penis parlance,
and as I pull...
February 5, 2026 - 06:29 | Molly Peacock | Walrus
Good morning. Danielle Smith wants more control over Alberta’s judges and she’s willing to withhold funding to get it – more on that below, along with Ottawa’s scrapped EV mandate and Canada’s best shots at Olympic medals. But first:
February 5, 2026 - 06:27 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
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