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Before Ryan Wedding was arrested last week as one of the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted fugitives, and before he was charged a decade earlier for masterminding a plot to sail thousands of kilos of cocaine up from the Caribbean to Canada’s East Coast, Canadian police viewed the former Olympic snowboarder as one of the many middling profiteers in Metro Vancouver’s massive underground cannabis trade.It was 2006, and Mounties, acting on an anonymous tip given to the Vancouver police, raided a farm in the eastern suburb of Maple Ridge. There they found thousands of pot plants and dozens of...
January 26, 2026 - 05:00 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
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January 26, 2026 - 04:00 | Alex Robinson | Ottawa Citizen
Embarking on the Rideau Canal Skateway defines a quintessential Ottawa winter, but for Anthony Balatti it doesn't involve skates. Read More
January 26, 2026 - 04:00 | Natasha Baldin | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Alberta and Ontario are two of Canada’s biggest provincial economies, but they’re going in opposite directions when it comes to building homes for their residents.
Alberta posted a second straight record year for housing starts in 2025, breaking ground
on 54,858 new dwellings
. This...
January 26, 2026 - 04:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Andrew Hale, an economist and trade expert based in Washington, D.C., is a citizen of both the United Kingdom and the United States, and a former resident of Canada, where he attended the former Grenville Christian College boarding school as a teen, and later CEGEP and Western University. Hale led a campaign to
expose abuses
against pupils at Grenville, having experienced them firsthand under the tenure of the headmaster, Rev. Charles R. Farnsworth.
Since then, Hale has gone on to work for the U.K.’s Defence Intelligence Staff and Department for International...
January 26, 2026 - 04:00 | Tracy Moran | National Post
The family of a Gatineau, Que., couple found dead while staying in the Dominican Republic earlier this winter is disputing the official cause of death given by local authorities.
January 26, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
