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Publication Date: February 4, 2026 - 07:00
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Calgary reflects on rejecting 2026 Olympic bid, as legacy of 1988 Games fades
February 4, 2026
A year-long debate over whether to host the 2026 Winter Olympics dominated headlines in Calgary in 2018. The idea was abandoned after the public voted the idea down in a plebiscite. Now, residents are about to watch the Games they could have hosted kick off on the other side of the world in Italy.
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After losing two family members close to her heart, Cambria Harris is finding her path to healing from trauma through art and sewing.
February 26, 2026 - 07:00 | Marney Blunt | Global News - Canada
In December 2025, United States president Donald Trump struck a deal that—uncharacteristically for such a spectacle-driven politician—barely registered among the general public.
The agreement committed the Belarusian government to releasing 123 political prisoners, a significant concession from one of Europe’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. In return, Washington agreed to lift sanctions on Belarus’s potash exports—sanctions it escalated after the country’s rigged 2020 election and later expanded, in 2022, when Belarus allowed Russia to use its territory to invade Ukraine.
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February 26, 2026 - 06:31 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
My sister Shauna was listed for a liver transplant, the only potentially curative treatment for her end-stage liver disease, in 2003. All along, I believed that she was going to receive a successful transplant and be able to start a new life. I was attuned to the stories of those fortunate recipients who were able to get one and thrive, and I believed my sister would belong to that cast of heroes and survivors.
But during her eighteen-month wait for the “gift of life,” her health precipitously declined, and she died in an intensive care unit. Redemption was out of reach for her.
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February 26, 2026 - 06:30 | Anita Slominska | Walrus
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