Unpublished Newswire
Whether it's city staff, council or some combination of both, do they ever learn? Read More
January 17, 2026 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
When it’s done, the building will barely register as new. The three-storey apartment complex will settle onto a leafy street as if it had always been there – faced in brick, its twin balconies nudging toward the sidewalk.But inside, this project in an older Toronto neighbourhood will express radical ambition. Its design unmakes more than half a century of North American assumptions about fire safety, architecture and how to build cities. Designed by Toronto’s Office Ou, the six-unit building will only have a single staircase, not two as Canadian building codes usually require.
January 17, 2026 - 05:00 | Alex Bozikovic, John Lorinc | The Globe and Mail
On a Saturday morning in Nepean, shoppers leave the James Bartleman Archives and Library Materials Centre with tote bags tugging at their shoulders, loaded with paperbacks priced lower than a cup of coffee. Across town in Stittsville, donated titles pile up at the Re-Read Used Books counter and vanish by day's end. Read More
January 17, 2026 - 04:00 | Sofia Misenheimer | Ottawa Citizen
People over 80 with memory of those in their 50s show less brain shrinkage and other differences. For a Canadian centenarian, the secret might lie in his passion for sharing a vocation turned hobby.
January 17, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Hundreds of Kashechewan First Nation evacuees have arrived in Niagara Falls, one of the Ontario cities taking in people from the Cree community as it endures a water crisis. With 1,700 expected in the Niagara Region city alone, authorities and local Indigenous groups are doing everything they can to help them feel at home.
January 17, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
For nearly a month, Montrealers from African countries have been gathering in the city's cafés, restaurants, bars and the comfort of their own homes to support their respective teams in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, the continent's iconic soccer tournament which ends Sunday.
January 17, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
