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Publication Date: January 13, 2026 - 04:00
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We started drinking more during the pandemic — and that habit hasn't changed much, a new survey finds
January 13, 2026
Many people are starting 2026 by taking part in Dry January, swearing off alcohol for the first month of the year. But new research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is raising concerns about how much Canadians are drinking.
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OTTAWA — Housing Minister Gregor Robertson tabled legislation on Thursday to establish the federal government’s new affordable housing agency, but acknowledged Build Canada Homes has no set targets on how many homes it will build.
“There aren’t top-line targets set for the number of homes to build,” said Robertson, during a press conference on Parliament Hill. “There is $13 billion allocated in Budget 2025 to Build Canada Homes and Canada Lands Co. combined that will be leveraged for maximum delivery of affordable housing.”
Build Canada Homes was introduced by the federal government...
February 5, 2026 - 13:54 | Jordan Gowling | National Post
An RCMP manager in Nova Scotia says he takes issue with officers being called white supremacists and Nazis during a recent police raid of an Indigenous-run cannabis dispensary.
February 5, 2026 - 13:51 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
What to make of a United States which threatens the sovereign territory of an allied democracy? Which invades another country to snatch its head of state and then makes the rest of the regime “an offer it can’t refuse” with respect to its oil resources? Where the head of the central bank is subjected to a sham criminal investigation for refusing to let the head of state interfere where the law forbids it? Or in which gangs of masked government thugs roam the streets, picking up anyone they wish and consigning them, with seemingly no due process, to a semi-legal hell on earth—and even...
February 5, 2026 - 13:48 | Peter Jones | Walrus
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