Unpublished Newswire
When people decide they’ll never own a home, they start spending more, working less, and taking bigger financial risks.That is the central finding of a new U.S. working paper on housing affordability, and it helps explain why today’s housing crisis is not just about housing. Once homeownership feels permanently out of reach, the authors argue that people do not simply adjust their housing plans – they change how they live. For the worse.
January 26, 2026 - 06:00 | Preet Banerjee | The Globe and Mail
For some N.W.T. residents, participating in the federal gun buyback program might not be so straightforward. The Government of the Northwest Territories says it’s not going to administer it.
January 26, 2026 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Jude Valant, a 19-year-old non-verbal student with severe autism, relies on a communication method called Rapid Prompting Method to express his thoughts. His school won’t allow its use because it is not a recognized form of communication.
January 26, 2026 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Toronto residents should give themselves a bit more time to get where they’re going this morning as the city digs out from a weekend snowstorm.City manager Paul Johnson told a news conference yesterday that it’s likely going to be a couple of days until the snow is cleared all the way to the curb.
January 26, 2026 - 05:47 | | The Globe and Mail
Before Ryan Wedding was arrested last week as one of the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted fugitives, and before he was charged a decade earlier for masterminding a plot to sail thousands of kilos of cocaine up from the Caribbean to Canada’s East Coast, Canadian police viewed the former Olympic snowboarder as one of the many middling profiteers in Metro Vancouver’s massive underground cannabis trade.It was 2006, and Mounties, acting on an anonymous tip given to the Vancouver police, raided a farm in the eastern suburb of Maple Ridge. There they found thousands of pot plants and dozens of...
January 26, 2026 - 05:00 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
The internal push to prevent the Art Gallery of Ontario from acquiring a work by photographer-activist Nan Goldin last year – which has led to four resignations – was prompted by the philanthropic executive Judy Schulich, according to documentation reviewed by The Globe and Mail.The Globe reported last week that the Toronto gallery’s modern and contemporary collections committee narrowly voted to not acquire Ms. Goldin’s video work, Stendhal Syndrome, after a heated discussion during a meeting in May, 2025. In the meeting, some committee members alleged that the Jewish-American artist’s...
January 26, 2026 - 05:00 | Josh O’Kane | The Globe and Mail
