Unpublished Newswire
A young Canadian backpacker who was found dead on a beach in Australia earlier this week was likely not killed by a pack of 10 dingoes, an autopsy has found.A spokesperson with the Coroners Court of Queensland confirmed in a statement Friday that a preliminary assessment had been completed on the body of Piper James and was awaiting pathology results, expected to take several weeks.
January 23, 2026 - 07:07 | Aaron Sousa | The Globe and Mail
Indigenous women and girls are killed at rates six times higher than non-Indigenous women — yet the perpetrators are frequently convicted of lesser offences than those guilty in the deaths of non-Indigenous victims.
In virtually all cases involving Indigenous women, the victim and accused knew each other.
The Investigative Journalism Bureau reviewed 1,329 cases in which women and girls were killed or died under suspicious circumstances in Canada between 2019 and 2025. Just over 25 per cent — or 340 victims — were Indigenous. Of those cases, 165 have been resolved in court.
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January 23, 2026 - 07:00 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
A retired Ottawa business consultant and father has taken on Air Canada and won — twice.
Rejean Landry
‘s plans for a summer 2022 trip to Portugal for himself and adult children were disrupted by Air Canada delays and ticket cancellations. Landry eventually took his complaints about the airline’s handling of trip to small claims court late last year. Then when Air Canada appealed, he fought the airline in the Ontario Superior Court.
But...
January 23, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Canadians are divided over whether government support should be offered to protesters in Iran, according to a new poll.
Just 26 per cent of Canadians said the federal government should publicly declare support for the protesters, while 30 per cent said it should not, according to a national poll conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies. Forty per cent of respondents said they didn’t know and four per cent did not respond.
The numbers were similar when Canadians were asked if Canada should pressure allies to support Iranian protesters. The poll found that 22 per...
January 23, 2026 - 07:00 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
For years, there was a box on a back shelf of P’s house in Edmonton labelled “insurance.” (For reasons of privacy, we are using this initial only.) Her husband at the time thought it contained paperwork, but P had filled it with a different kind of insurance: a physical record of smashed phones, broken eyeglasses, and photographs of the bruises his violent episodes had left on her body. “I had a circle of blue bruises around my mouth because he would cover my mouth and smother me,” she told me.
Photographs, videos, and audio recordings are highly persuasive to judges and juries. When a...
January 23, 2026 - 06:30 | Linda Besner | Walrus
Good morning. In 2026, Canada resolves to be more pragmatic and clear-eyed. Parliament will return on Monday with that – and lots more – in mind. More on the country’s new outlook below, along with plans for AI regulation and Gaza’s ceasefire. But first: Today’s headlinesTrump’s Greenland deal could include U.S. sovereignty over military bases and mineral rightsCEO of Vancouver’s Hootsuite says ICE contract will stand as long as the agency honours its terms and conditionsQuebec puts the brakes on emissions targets citing economy and rollbacks
January 23, 2026 - 06:27 | Steven Chase | The Globe and Mail
