Unpublished Newswire
The escalating cost of living keeps making headlines and inspiring furious Reddit threads. Food prices remain a flashpoint, especially when it comes to coffee. But behind every grocery store gripe lies a deeper unease about whether wages are keeping up and the tariffs that continue to dominate economic news.
While Canada isn’t subject to the highest tariff rate when compared to other countries, and many of our own counter-tariffs were lifted last September, uncertainty can still ripple through supply chains and shape consumer expectations. Analysts warn some imported goods could get...
January 15, 2026 - 06:30 | Vass Bednar | Walrus
Off the Mark
Mark Bourrie’s “Who Is Mark Carney, Really?” (November 2025) stayed with me. It’s something many Canadians are still wondering. People seem tired and want someone steady and predictable instead of another politician full of grand ideas. But comfort is not the same as inspiration. When we start valuing competence above everything else, politics can begin to feel like maintenance work instead of a space for imagination. Things might run smoothly, but the sense of possibility starts to fade. A technocrat can fix problems, but a leader makes people believe in something. Carney...
January 15, 2026 - 06:29 | Readers | Walrus
Good morning. Motherhood changes many things in a woman’s life – that includes a fundamental shift in how they make financial decisions. More on that below, along with more news from protests in Iran and strife in Uganda. But first: Today’s headlinesQuebec Premier François Legault will resign ahead of the fall election, shaking up the province’s political and business landscape British Columbia is ending its contentious drug decriminalization pilotDonald Trump’s annexation threats raise thorny questions for Greenland and Denmark
January 15, 2026 - 06:08 | Ann Hui | The Globe and Mail
Facing a forecast of 15 to 25 centimetres of snow, all school bus agencies in eastern Ontario have cancelled school buses on Thursday.
January 15, 2026 - 06:05 | | CBC News - Ottawa
The Ford government is delaying its own affordable housing measures in several major Ontario cities, calling the rules it wrote 'unnecessary red tape and requirements.'
January 15, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
A Toronto lawyer charged last year with a string of criminal offences, including allegedly driving with a suspended licence with a machete in his car and threatening people at a store with a box cutter, has seen his licence to practice law in Ontario suspended temporarily.
The Law Society of Ontario learned last August that Behrouz Shafiei-Sararoodi, who goes by Shafiei, was facing criminal charges that he hadn’t told them about.
“There is no dispute that Mr. Shafiei has struggled with mental health and substance abuse difficulties. It appears likely that these difficulties have...
January 15, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
