Unpublished Newswire
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
On a Saturday morning in Nepean, shoppers leave the James Bartleman Archives and Library Materials Centre with tote bags tugging at their shoulders, loaded with paperbacks priced lower than a cup of coffee. Across town in Stittsville, donated titles pile up at the Re-Read Used Books counter and vanish by day's end. Read More
January 17, 2026 - 04:00 | Sofia Misenheimer | Ottawa Citizen
Hundreds of Kashechewan First Nation evacuees have arrived in Niagara Falls, one of the Ontario cities taking in people from the Cree community as it endures a water crisis. With 1,700 expected in the Niagara Region city alone, authorities and local Indigenous groups are doing everything they can to help them feel at home.
January 17, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Hundreds of Kashechewan First Nation evacuees have arrived in Niagara Falls, one of the Ontario cities taking in people from the Cree community as it endures a water crisis. With 1,700 expected in the Niagara Region city alone, authorities and local Indigenous groups are doing everything they can to help them feel at home.
January 17, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
