Unpublished Newswire
Recently, I reported for The Walrus on how Alberta lost the plot on measles in 2025.
First, a reminder of the timeline. Canada’s recent trouble with measles began late in October 2024, when an infected traveller brought it to New Brunswick. By November 1, public health officials declared an outbreak in the Fredericton area, and soon, more than forty people—mostly unvaccinated children—contracted the virus.
By March 2025, measles had made it to northern Alberta, and by the summer, the province reported more measles cases than the entire United States. (The population of Alberta is 5...
February 10, 2026 - 06:30 | Monica Kidd | Walrus
Mark Carney cultivates the image of a sophisticated technocrat ready to fight Donald Trump’s tariff war. Accountability advocates warn his private-sector record tells a different story. “Prime Minister Carney has as many financial conflicts as Trump,” claims Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, one of Canada’s leading government watchdogs.
Launched in 1993, the non-partisan group campaigns for stricter oversight of public officials of all stripes. It files complaints with ethics commissioners, challenges government actions in court, and pushes for democratic reforms at the...
February 10, 2026 - 06:29 | Taylor C. Noakes | Walrus
Technological advances in the management of Type 1 diabetes mean that most kids wear a pump that administers insulin so separate needle injections are not needed.
February 10, 2026 - 06:27 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
A public inquiry is set to begin today on cost overruns and controversy linked to a building project led by the City of Winnipeg.
February 10, 2026 - 06:18 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Good morning. A new report shows Canadians are increasingly relying on chatbots for medical advice – and it’s not going well. More on that below, along with a second medal in Milan Cortina and the start of tax season. But first:
February 10, 2026 - 06:12 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
Tacked on the plywood fence keeping intruders away from the long-closed St-Eusèbe-de-Verceil church in Montreal, next to "Free Gaza" and anti-police graffiti, is a poem.
February 10, 2026 - 06:11 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
