
Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas says he believes the city should spare no expense to replace a key water main quickly as it deals with an ongoing second breakage.
January 8, 2026 - 08:30 | | The Globe and Mail
Politicians flew to northern Manitoba to get a look at the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, which is scrambling to clean up and repair homes devastated by a frozen water catastrophe.
January 8, 2026 - 08:30 | | The Globe and Mail
Rogers Communications RCI-B-T says it is investing $50-million over five years to address the excessive time teens and tweens spend on screens.The telecom giant launched a national school program Thursday that Tony Staffieri, the president and CEO of Rogers, said is meant to change behaviour and help youth develop healthy relationships with screens. It involves bringing professional athletes to schools to talk about healthy screen use.
January 8, 2026 - 07:58 | Hannah Alberga | The Globe and Mail
Line 2 trains were not running between Dow's Lake and Carleton stations earlier Thursday because of a switch problem, while Line 1 briefly had a train problem for the second morning in a row.
January 8, 2026 - 07:18 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Numbers can tell a story. Canada is home to
41.58 million people
, according to the latest population estimates, and the
average age was 41.7...
January 8, 2026 - 07:00 | Laura Brehaut | National Post
Usually, if a child swats another child with a toy dinosaur, it does not cause catastrophic injury.
Usually, if a child gets hurt at a daycare, it is the daycare owners who get dragged into court.
And usually, if someone goes to court claiming someone else owes them thousands of dollars to compensate for a finger that three years ago was “essentially severed at the bone but still attached,” they bring along some medical records to illustrate such a gruesome claim.
A court case newly decided in Grande Prairie, Alta., bucked all these trends.
It also offered what a judge called a...
January 8, 2026 - 07:00 | Joseph Brean | National Post

