Unpublished Newswire
There’s a viral quote that makes the internet’s rounds every so often about how mothers are expected to work like they have no kids and parent like they have no job. The moment I was close to having one, it started to feel like I was losing the other.
My ambition had taken me from Toronto to London, England, five months postpartum with my first child, working as a digital commissioner at a broadcaster’s headquarters in Oxford Circus. It was everything I thought I had ever wanted—when I thought being a journalist was as much as I was allowed to want, the culmination of decades of graft,...
January 30, 2026 - 06:29 | Amil Niazi | Walrus
LAST NOVEMBER, WE received a letter from a grade five student in New Kent, Virginia, asking for advice. The child was beginning work on an “editorial” and wanted information on how to “save the walrus from extinction.” He meant the wrinkled, tusked-and-whiskered mammal, not this organization.
There is a lot to love here. First, the charming analogue quality of the act. The letter was printed, crisply folded, slipped into an envelope, and dropped into a mailbox. No email address was provided, ensuring our reply would travel by slow technology. Second, undergirding the letter—and this, in...
January 30, 2026 - 06:28 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
A man has been charged with murder after the remains of his common-law partner were found in an Edmonton-area apartment, and RCMP say their baby is also believed to be dead.
January 30, 2026 - 06:20 | | The Globe and Mail
Good morning. Canada could become the first country in the world to get generic Ozempic, so we are launching a series to explore the medical and cultural shifts in how we treat weight loss. More on that below, along with mass arrests in Iran and negotiations at the White House. But first:
January 30, 2026 - 06:16 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
As January 2026 ends, the bill still hasn't been passed into law, and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing can't say when it will.
January 30, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
The Ryan Hill Ice-Carving Public Challenge is one of this year’s featured events at Winterlude in the capital region. Hill's friends and family hope the challenge inspires others to remember his work and learn the craft themselves.
January 30, 2026 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
