Unpublished Newswire
LAST SUMMER, a friend was visiting from Australia. Our plan was to meet at my place at noon, and then he showed up thirty minutes ahead of schedule. “You’re early. I need to tidy up, it’s a mess,” I lamented like some kind of 1950s fridge-magnet lady come to life. It wasn’t. Messy, that is. I just hadn’t had time to do a pre-company spit polish. And now here was my dear pal, standing in my kitchen, and I was spinning out over coffee rings. As we hugged, I surveyed the dishes in the sink from over his shoulder, the high chair caked with egg-something, the bowl on the butcher’s block...
January 7, 2026 - 06:29 | Courtney Shea | Walrus
Yuri Fulmer said the Conservative Party of B.C. needs to be a “grand coalition” that refrains from “undisciplined” behaviour if it wants to govern, as he becomes the first high-profile candidate to run for the party’s leadership. Fulmer, the chancellor of Capilano University who made his fortune with fast food franchises, said that means that the Conservatives have to “welcome a lot of people” into the party who don’t feel comfortable there now – including former B.C. Liberals.
January 7, 2026 - 06:25 | Wolfgang Depner | The Globe and Mail
Good morning. Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland are no longer being brushed aside – more on that below, along with the newest Toronto Blue Jay and pricier cellphone plans. But first:Today’s headlinesU.S. control of Venezuela’s oil reserves is not a threat to Canadian producers, Carney saysThreats from Trump spark renewed fears in Colombia after U.S. attack on VenezuelaThe podcaster accused of harassing a former Alberta Health Services board member says he was hired by an Edmonton lawyer, according to court records
January 7, 2026 - 06:08 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
A drunk driver who killed a Somali immigrant and severely injured her daughter when he ran them over as they were walking across a Niagara Falls intersection, then fled the scene only to crash into two parked cars a short distance away, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
John Franco Bonaldo met friends at a restaurant on the evening of Nov. 16, 2024. The Ontario Court of Justice heard the 32-year-old consumed six pints of beer over four hours before getting behind the wheel at 12:42 a.m.
“Every drunk driver is a potential killer. That this does not happen in most cases of...
January 7, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Doug Ford confirmed he would pull the Canadian whiskey from the shelves of the province's alcohol stores next month to punish international drinks conglomerate Diageo.
January 7, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Canada
Leslie Burns and her husband Michael have wintered in Tavernier, a small, laid-back community in the Florida Keys, since 2010. The Collingwood, Ont., couple doesn’t see themselves as tourists anymore. “We stay in a residential neighbourhood and do our best to blend in,” Leslie said from their long-term winter rental where the weather reached 21 degrees Celsius this week under “Windex-blue” skies.
The retired couple is part of a formidable flock of snowbirds still wintering in the U.S. New border scrutiny and anger over the U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have thinned the flock....
January 7, 2026 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
