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Publication Date: January 19, 2026 - 04:00
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Canada's co-hosting the FIFA World Cup — and preparing for a potential surge in health emergencies. Here's how
January 19, 2026
As Toronto and Vancouver gear up to co-host FIFA World Cup games this summer, an emergency doctor worries that Canada’s overburdened health-care system won’t be able to handle the extra demand from possible infectious disease outbreaks or weather-related illnesses.
A public hearing into the 2015 police beating death of Myles Gray gets underway today in Vancouver.
January 19, 2026 - 06:41 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
ON APRIL 18, 2020, Gabriel Wortman murdered thirteen of his neighbours in Portapique, Nova Scotia. He hid in a nearby field overnight and killed nine more people the following day, including a pregnant woman. He died later that morning, after RCMP officers fired on him at a gas station.
Lisa Banfield, Wortman’s common-law partner, endured years of violence from Wortman. She escaped with her life the night his shooting rampage began. Six months following the murders, Banfield went back to Portapique and walked officers through her last moments with Wortman.
Her account of that fraught...
January 19, 2026 - 06:30 | Lisa Banfield | Walrus
Good morning. A growing rift between Europe and the U.S. is on display as international politics heat up in Greenland. More on that below, along with concepts for a peace initiative and a proposal for an auto strategy. Let’s get to it.TOP STORY
January 19, 2026 - 06:17 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail


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