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const title = "Weekly Quiz: Strategic Romance, Buying “Canadian,” and AI Pricing";
const date = "January 17, 2026";
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title: "The Strategic Love Story of Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry",
url: "https://thewalrus.ca/the-strategic-romance-of-justin-trudeau-and-katy-perry/",
question: "Justin Trudeau’s return to the limelight via his relationship with pop star Katy Perry isn’t an anomaly but part of a larger pattern...
January 17, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
The provincial government and the Toronto police are butting heads. The subject is how to manage pro-Palestinian protests in the city. The province says that the police are not doing enough. The police say they are doing everything they can within the law. The police, in this case, are right.The clash comes against a background of rising antisemitism across Canada. The Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel and the ugly war in Gaza that followed were the match that lit the tinder.
January 17, 2026 - 06:00 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
Saskatchewan is the only province where RCMP have a drone in every detachment. The technology was vital in a recent night rescue near Prince Albert.
January 17, 2026 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
In most major cities, water transmissions lines are wide enough to drive a truck through. They carry as much water as a small river and can reach internal pressures of 200 pounds per square inch, about five times more intense than a car tire. When they fail, they fail spectacularly.
January 17, 2026 - 05:30 | Patrick White | The Globe and Mail
Whether it's city staff, council or some combination of both, do they ever learn? Read More
January 17, 2026 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
When it’s done, the building will barely register as new. The three-storey apartment complex will settle onto a leafy street as if it had always been there – faced in brick, its twin balconies nudging toward the sidewalk.But inside, this project in an older Toronto neighbourhood will express radical ambition. Its design unmakes more than half a century of North American assumptions about fire safety, architecture and how to build cities. Designed by Toronto’s Office Ou, the six-unit building will only have a single staircase, not two as Canadian building codes usually require.
January 17, 2026 - 05:00 | Alex Bozikovic, John Lorinc | The Globe and Mail
