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Publication Date: February 17, 2026 - 18:20
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Ottawa Now - Rockland speedskater Ivanie Blondin tastes Olympic Gold, defends title in Women's Team Pursuit
February 17, 2026
In 2022, Team Canada captured Olympic Gold in the Women’s Team Pursuit. That was in Beijing. Four years later, this time in Milan, the exact same speedskating trio has done it again. It is headlined by Quebec’s Valerie Maltais, as well as Ottawa natives Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann. Bob Blondin, who lives in Rockland, is getting ready to join his daughter in Italy for the Closing Celebrations. He takes us through today’s adrenaline rush on Ottawa Now.
MUMBAI, INDIA — Confronting concerns over India’s ties to violence on Canada’s streets and attempts to meddle in its elections can only be done through direct engagement, says Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand.
Anand, who is in Mumbai as Canada seeks to deepen its trading relationship with the country of 1.4 billion people, faced a barrage of questions on Saturday over comments a senior government official made to media before the trip downplaying India’s alleged role in ongoing acts of extortion and homicides.
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When I try to trace back my fascination with dreams, a certain memory pops into my head. I was nine years old, sitting in the kitchen of my childhood home in Oshawa, Ontario. My feet snaked around the legs of a creaky wooden chair. My parents hadn’t renovated the kitchen yet, so I was surrounded by faded blue-flowered wallpaper. I pulled my long hair off my face and tilted my head back. Our German shepherds, Pepper and Spice, circled the room, then paused to take a closer look. My father wrestled with a tangle of colourful wires and a pot of sticky white paste. He consulted an official-...
February 28, 2026 - 06:30 | Karen van Kampen | Walrus
It’s an
April Fool’s Day
tradition. MPs give themselves pay raises every year on April 1 under the
Parliament of Canada Act...
February 28, 2026 - 06:04 | Stewart Lewis | National Post



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