Unpublished Newswire
Food inflation in Canada has been increasing relentlessly, even more than inflation on other goods, spiking again at the end of 2025.
Since 2022, Canadians have seen grocery prices rise by about 22 per cent in contrast with other consumer prices that have gone up on average by 13 per cent, according to the Bank of Canada.
In a
February article...
February 5, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
An Alberta judge recently discounted the prison sentence for a former university football player with Indigenous roots who bled profusely while sexually assaulting a woman, despite her repeated protests over the attack.
An Edmonton jury found Aaron Moore Minshull, whose mother is Indigenous, guilty of the July 18, 2020, “major sexual assault.” A Court of King’s Bench judge sentenced him to three years in prison.
“In deciding on this sentence, I have taken into account the mitigating factors regarding Mr. Moore (Minshull’s) rehabilitation efforts, his Indigenous heritage and his...
February 5, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Conservative delegates’ resounding show of support for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership in Calgary is more interesting than a more tentative vote would have been. The way people talk about Poilievre in Ottawa and Toronto, including a lot of long-time Conservatives, suggests they think he’s trying to be like Prime Minister Mark Carney, and he’s bad at it. The weekend’s events in Calgary suggest Poilievre’s trying to be different from Carney, and that the party thinks he’s good at it.
No leader is safe forever. Three more floor-crossing members of Parliament or some unimaginable caucus revolt...
February 5, 2026 - 06:30 | Paul Wells | Walrus
Underpants
My Value Village doesn’t take underwear.
I could not possibly throw nearly a month’s
worth of his briefs down the chute
to be landfill-crushed, so I’ve made them a lair
in one of my own deep drawers. Do I hear
them thrumming in there? They don’t feel
like they were ever filled by him. Their condition,
flattened, piled like leaves, is spiritual,
the most disembodied of underpants
never again waiting to wrap his ass,
his athlete’s glutes — nor expecting to.
They’re now the residents of a dresser,
tame sirens of the derrière,
red, navy, black in a penis parlance,
and as I pull...
February 5, 2026 - 06:29 | Molly Peacock | Walrus
Good morning. Danielle Smith wants more control over Alberta’s judges and she’s willing to withhold funding to get it – more on that below, along with Ottawa’s scrapped EV mandate and Canada’s best shots at Olympic medals. But first:
February 5, 2026 - 06:27 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
An update is expected today in the case of Canadian businessman Frank Stronach, whose sexual assault trial in Toronto is facing some delays.
February 5, 2026 - 06:15 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
