
January 29, 2026 - 06:51 | | CBC News - Canada
Conservative Party members from across the country are gathering today in downtown Calgary for the federal party’s convention, set to run through the weekend. They’ll cast non-binding votes on a variety of policies and conduct a mandatory leadership review. But their real task will be to demonstrate that the party is both unified and gaining momentum, even after a federal campaign this past April in which the Conservatives lost their grip on a twenty-four-point lead, and party leader Pierre Poilievre lost his own riding, allowing the Liberals to stay in power with a minority government....
January 29, 2026 - 06:30 | Claire Porter Robbins | Walrus
To pray, not to ask, but to have the line open.
To listen to the almost silence on the other end,
to know your almost silence
is being listened to as well (distant cars,
clicks of a keyboard, a child laughing),
to know your listening is being listened to
(both sides on speakerphone, no one speaking)
as you go about your respective days,
tiresome appointments, dark highways.
The sounds from either side coming through
that narrow frequency range, the crackle
and the hiss of this world,
of that world. And OK, maybe a few words
from you at the end of a hard day,
a few words from the voice...
January 29, 2026 - 06:29 | Raoul Fernandes | Walrus
Good morning. The Conservatives will decide tomorrow night if they should keep Pierre Poilievre around as leader – more on that below, along with the U.S. Democrats’ ICE demands and Canada’s Olympic flag-bearers. But first:
January 29, 2026 - 06:27 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured when a truck driver went through a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey team's bus at a rural intersection.
January 29, 2026 - 06:25 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A new policing law that came into effect in 2025 raised standards for training and regulations but was not accompanied with new funding for forces to action the changes.
January 29, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa


