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Rogers Communications RCI-B-T says it is investing $50-million over five years to address the excessive time teens and tweens spend on screens.The telecom giant launched a national school program Thursday that Tony Staffieri, the president and CEO of Rogers, said is meant to change behaviour and help youth develop healthy relationships with screens. It involves bringing professional athletes to schools to talk about healthy screen use.
January 8, 2026 - 07:58 | Hannah Alberga | The Globe and Mail
Line 2 trains were not running between Dow's Lake and Carleton stations earlier Thursday because of a switch problem, while Line 1 briefly had a train problem for the second morning in a row.
January 8, 2026 - 07:18 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Numbers can tell a story. Canada is home to
41.58 million people
, according to the latest population estimates, and the
average age was 41.7...
January 8, 2026 - 07:00 | Laura Brehaut | National Post
Usually, if a child swats another child with a toy dinosaur, it does not cause catastrophic injury.
Usually, if a child gets hurt at a daycare, it is the daycare owners who get dragged into court.
And usually, if someone goes to court claiming someone else owes them thousands of dollars to compensate for a finger that three years ago was “essentially severed at the bone but still attached,” they bring along some medical records to illustrate such a gruesome claim.
A court case newly decided in Grande Prairie, Alta., bucked all these trends.
It also offered what a judge called a...
January 8, 2026 - 07:00 | Joseph Brean | National Post
Rachel Reid is the bestselling author of the Game Changers hockey romance series that includes Heated Rivalry, the TV adaptation of which (by director Jacob Tierney) has become a massive hit since it premiered on Crave in November. Rachel and I talk about how she, as someone who submitted the manuscript of her first novel without even telling her partner or her family, is handling the sudden explosion of attention, about the pressure she feels to make her next book worthy of this attention, and about her rules when it comes to writing explicit sex scenes.
The interview has been edited...
January 8, 2026 - 06:30 | Nathan Whitlock | Walrus
Good morning. Generic semaglutide is now legal in Canada, putting Ozempic on the brink of a price reset – more on that below, along with Chrystia Freeland’s last day as an MP and the drop in U.S.-bound flights. But first:Today’s headlinesThe U.S. seizes two oil tankers under sanction linked to VenezuelaThe fatal shooting of woman in Minneapolis sparks protests against ICEThe former head of AHS says she faced a campaign of intimidation since her lawsuit against the Alberta government
January 8, 2026 - 06:04 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
