Unpublished Newswire
I was doing laundry one night in late November and looking for something to do to pass the time. Too restless for film and too tired for a novel, I settled on an episode of Heated Rivalry. Two hours later, I abandoned the laundry and all common sense.
It didn’t take long for me to turn into a literal one-person promo machine, bordering on evangelist, telling everyone to just watch the damn show. I was fixated, cancelling plans and feigning illnesses, stocking up on Kleenex and ketchup-flavoured chips (don’t judge me), and wishing Friday nights could roll in faster. I wanted a distraction...
February 13, 2026 - 06:26 | Filipa Pajevic | Walrus
Avid viewers of Jacob Tierney’s homo-hockey smut sensation Heated Rivalry—girls and gays, overwhelmingly—are likely unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the National Hockey League. So, it might come as a surprise to anyone not tuned in to Canada’s national sport (I can count the games I’ve sat through on one hand) that the league’s thirty-two teams include only seven Canadian ones. Since their expansion in the 1920s, a consortium that began as 100 percent Canuck has been steadily overtaken by Yankee enormity. So it goes in North America.
The overwhelming success of this...
February 13, 2026 - 06:25 | Alexander Mooney | Walrus
The year is 2008. The banks are failing, a confident ingenue named Lady Gaga is taking over pop radio, and Barack Obama is riding a wave of hope to the American presidency. And, in director Jacob Tierney’s world, a teenage Shane Hollander approaches Ilya Rozanov at the International Prospect Cup. The rest is history.
This is where Heated Rivalry begins its decade-spanning first season—though if you blink, you’ll miss the timestamps. Fans and critics alike have poked fun at the show’s disorienting timeline, which rapidly jumps from 2008 to 2017 as it chronicles Hollander and...
February 13, 2026 - 06:24 | Rosie Long Decter | Walrus
Good morning. After a mass shooting shattered the tiny community of Tumbler Ridge, more information has helped shed light on how events unfolded. Below, we have more on the victims, and from our reporters on the ground.
February 13, 2026 - 06:07 | Marsha Lederman | The Globe and Mail
Well, I see Alto has started a huge campaign in hopes of garnering support from the public for a high-speed rail line from Quebec City to Toronto. Read More
February 13, 2026 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
The City of Ottawa was aware that Ottawa's largest school board, currently under provincial supervision, would list a vacant school on Draper Avenue for sale, but said it didn't fit the city's "operational needs." Read More
February 13, 2026 - 04:00 | Joanne Laucius | Ottawa Citizen
