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Author: Alex Bozikovic
Publication Date: January 20, 2026 - 04:40
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January 20, 2026
The process began more than a decade ago. In 2016, Toronto’s parks department announced a recreation centre in the gentrified Roncesvalles area. The plan sounded straightforward: a new pool-and-gym complex, budgeted at $40-million, opening around 2023.
Then the city asked the neighbours for their thoughts.
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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — In her 2017 track “Power”, pop superstar Katy Perry warned to not “mistake my warmth for weakness.” On Tuesday, she watched her beau Justin Trudeau argue that it’s a mistake to underestimate soft power amid instability not seen in 80 years.
On Tuesday, the former prime minister gave a keynote address at Brand Finance’s Global Soft Power Summit on the margins of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
As Perry watched impassively from the front row, Trudeau told the crowd of roughly 100 attendees and journalists that democracy is “backsliding” everywhere...
January 20, 2026 - 07:48 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard says he has shared his concerns with his Ontario counterpart and says given trade tensions with the U-S, now is not the time for measures that weaken Canadian supply chains.
January 20, 2026 - 07:33 | | CBC News - Canada
Canada will not be paying a reported US$1-billion membership fee to participate in Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Tuesday in comments that suggest Ottawa is still weighing whether to join.Mr. Champagne, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, would not say whether the fact that Mr. Trump had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to join the “Board of Peace” would affect Canada’s position.
January 20, 2026 - 06:35 | Steven Chase | The Globe and Mail
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