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Jan 22, 2026
Netflix will pay for Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming and studio division entirely in cash to edge out its rival Paramount — the latest chapter in a months-long saga that, once concluded, could significantly change the global entertainment industry.
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Jan 22, 2026
Free solo climber Alex Honnold will attempt to scale one of the tallest buildings in the world with no safety equipment this Friday in a live Netflix special. But the idea of watching a person risk his life on live TV makes some people uncomfortable and raises questions about what we consider entertainment.
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Jan 22, 2026
Former special counsel Jack Smith will make the case before a large American audience for the first time on Thursday as to why he believes that Donald Trump committed fraud in his actions and statements after his 2020 election loss. The details could serve as a cautionary tale of what the president is capable of doing during the midterms later this year.
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Jan 21, 2026
Crofton Mill employee Tawni Marcil tells The National about the moment she helped save a colony of cats at the site before its closure in Crofton, B.C.
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Jan 21, 2026
A Texas jury has acquitted a former Uvalde school police officer on charges he failed in his duty to confront the gunman during the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting, which left 19 students and two adults dead.
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Jan 21, 2026
A major storm system is set to bring "potentially catastrophic" winter weather across the southern U.S. this weekend, bringing snow, freezing rain and ice pellets to a substantial swath of the country.
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Jan 21, 2026
Jan. 21, 2026 | U.S. President Donald Trump backs down on military and tariff threats after reaching a ‘framework' deal on Greenland. Prince Harry's emotional testimony over the Daily Mail's treatment of Meghan Markle. And, Canada's short-track speed-skating team sets its sights on Olympic gold.
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Jan 21, 2026
People in southwest B.C. were dazzled by the northern lights on Monday and Tuesday, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there's a good chance the aurora borealis will be visible again Wednesday night across much of B.C.
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Jan 21, 2026
Syria's government accused the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces of attacks it said killed 11 soldiers on Wednesday, but the SDF disputed key elements of the account, blaming at least one deadly blast on explosives being moved by Syrian troops.
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Jan 21, 2026
Mexico sent 37 cartel members to the United States at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum saying Wednesday that it was a "sovereign decision" by her government.
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Jan 21, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on ?Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had accepted his invitation to join ?Trump's Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving ?global conflicts, a ?statement that Putin ?quickly ?countered, saying that the invitation was only under consideration.
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Jan 21, 2026
Health Canada is warning people not to buy or use fake or unauthorized versions of GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy. The health agency says it has found retailers in Canada selling unauthorized GLP-1 products — sometimes referred to as "fauxzempic" — both in stores and online.
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Jan 21, 2026
When 10-year-old Myer Gallant from O'Leary, P.E.I., was given the chance to Make-A-Wish, he didn't rush his decision. After carefully weighing his options — like getting a pool or going on a Disney cruise — Myer made up his mind. He wanted to meet Sidney Crosby and Ryan Graves, and see a Pittsburgh Penguins game.
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Jan 21, 2026
Canada's federal court has overturned a ?government order to close TikTok's Canadian operations, allowing ?it to continue to ?operate for the time being.
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Jan 21, 2026
A former flight attendant from Toronto posed as a commercial pilot for four years to take hundreds of free flights, according to U.S. authorities.
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Jan 21, 2026
A former flight attendant from Toronto posed as a commercial pilot for four years to take hundreds of free flights, according to U.S. authorities.
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Jan 21, 2026
A family and community in northern Alberta remember the life of Lilith, a five-year-old girl killed in a hit and run in northern Alberta last week. Police said they believe vehicle that collided with the family was stolen.
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Jan 21, 2026
"To share information that the project will be done in 2050 is irresponsible," said a Dofasco representative at a community meeting Tuesday night. The plan to power the plant with natural gas instead of coal was supposed to be done by 2028 with the help of hundreds of millions of public dollars.
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Jan 21, 2026
Hallie Clarke is set to make her Olympic debut next month at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games as part of the Canadian skeleton team announced Wednesday by Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton and Canadian Olympic Committee.
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Jan 21, 2026
Prince Harry held back tears as he said the Daily Mail had made his wife Meghan's life "an absolute misery," during his appearance in the witness box on Wednesday at London's High Court in his privacy lawsuit against the paper's publisher.
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Jan 21, 2026
Taylor Swift, Kiss's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Tricky Stewart, Alanis Morissette and Kenny Loggins make up the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees.
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Jan 21, 2026
Last fall, a beloved granite rock used by climbers in the area vanished. But now, the rock dubbed 'Portable' by locals, has been located.
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Jan 21, 2026
Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides' recall bid got 6,500 signatures, but was still far short of its goal. Other MLA recalls appear to be struggling even more than that.
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Jan 21, 2026
Israeli fire killed 11 Palestinians, including two boys and three journalists, in Gaza on Wednesday, local medics said, and the Israeli military said it had "eliminated" a Palestinian militant who posed a threat to soldiers.
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Jan 21, 2026
Israeli fire killed five Palestinians, including two boys, in central and southern Gaza, local health authorities said, and the Israeli military said it had "eliminated" a Palestinian militant who posed a threat to soldiers.
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Jan 21, 2026
Analysts say an energy deal between Canada and China signals a reset in a relationship that had largely stalled following years of tension. Could it impact Canada's plans to pursue a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest B.C. coast?
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Jan 21, 2026
Victoria Mboko of Toronto punched her ticket to the third round of women's singles at the Australian Open on Wednesday in Melbourne with a 6-4, 6-3 win over American Caty McNally.
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Jan 21, 2026
As families fight to avoid forced patient transfers from faith-based hospitals that refuse to perform medical assistance in dying (MAID), an advocacy group says there are more than 100 forced transfers a year across Canada.
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Jan 21, 2026
A Windsor man says he is being asked by the city to undo the repairs he made to his backyard. Robert Redmond says he took out the berm, worth 52 dump truck loads of dirt, from his backyard at about $6,700. Now, the city is asking him to put it back. But that could cost upwards of $50K.
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Jan 21, 2026
Elders in Paulatuk, N.W.T., say more can be done to save their coastal dialect of Inuvialuktun. A language program that's gained momentum recently in Tuktoyaktuk sheds light on a successful strategy — and a reason to hope Sallirmiutun won't disappear.
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Jan 21, 2026
A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday.
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Jan 21, 2026
Public consultations on the proposed high-speed rail line begin Wednesday in Ottawa and Montreal.
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Jan 21, 2026
Oxford Properties is fighting in court to stop Fairweather from taking over the large space that was once occupied by Hudson's Bay, arguing its stores feel "downmarket" and could damage the mall's image.
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Jan 21, 2026
Some are hoping Premier François Legault's successor will revive some of the commitments his government previously made, like recognizing UNDRIP and concluding a major treaty, which never came to fruition.
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Jan 21, 2026
Dalhousie University has revoked Buffy Sainte-Marie's honorary degree after her claims to Indigenous identity were the subject of a 2023 CBC News investigation, and a formal request from a medical student who raised concerns about the harms in keeping the honour.
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Jan 21, 2026
Canada's lone Formula One driver has spent his career plagued by the claim that he hasn't earned his spot in F1. But all eyes are on 2026 and the overhaul in F1's technical regulations that could finally change everything.
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Jan 21, 2026
The trial for a couple who'd been trying to adopt two brothers before one was found dead in their Burlington, Ont., home four years ago is set to end proceedings on Friday. Following her wife's testimony, Becky Hamber answered questions from lawyers, including about how the two treated the children. Here's what we've heard from Hamber so far in Milton Superior Court.
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Jan 20, 2026
Air Force One returned to the Washington, D.C., area after the president's plane, which was set to fly to Switzerland where he is scheduled to speak at the World Economic Forum, experienced a minor electrical issue, according to White House officials. Trump boarded another flight shortly after midnight ET.
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Jan 20, 2026
Air Force One returned to the Washington, D.C., area after the president's plane, which was set to fly to Switzerland where he is scheduled to speak at the World Economic Forum, experienced a minor electrical issue, according to White House officials.
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Jan 20, 2026
Martin Froger Silva, a videographer for the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, tells The National about the moment he filmed the inside of a glacier in Antarctica that's millions of years old.
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Jan 20, 2026
Canadian actress Rachel McAdams became the latest star to land a spot onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday.
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Jan 20, 2026
A Vancouver, B.C., palliative care doctor, who says she chose to resign rather than authorize patient transfers for the purpose of medical assistance in dying (MAID), took the stand in the B.C. Supreme Court case that will determine the constitutionality of faith-based, publicly funded health-care facilities prohibiting MAID in their buildings.
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Jan 20, 2026
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham held nothing back in a seething social media rant calling out his superstar parents — soccer legend Sir David Beckham and ex-Spice Girl Lady Victoria Beckham.
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Jan 20, 2026
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham held nothing back in a seething social media rant calling out his superstar parents — soccer legend Sir David Beckham and ex-Spice Girl Lady Victoria Beckham.
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Jan 20, 2026
A Barcelona commuter train crashed Tuesday after a retaining wall fell onto the tracks, Spanish regional authorities said, killing one person and injuring at least 14 others.
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Jan 20, 2026
Commuter rail service in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region was suspended Wednesday after a Barcelona commuter train crashed the night before, Spanish authorities said.
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Jan 20, 2026
Andrew Chang explains what $1 billion US buys members on Trump's new Board of Peace.
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Jan 20, 2026
The party confirmed Damien Kurek — who held the seat previously — would run in the Battle River-Crowfoot riding in the next election. Kurek gave up his seat last year so Poilievre could run in that electoral district.
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Jan 20, 2026
Witness testimony ended Tuesday in the trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack, setting up the case to go to the jury.
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Jan 20, 2026
Veronika the brown cow's dexterous and graceful tool use upends long-held assumptions about the intelligence of cows, say scientists.
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Jan 20, 2026
China has lifted its years-long ban on Canadian beef exports — a move industry officials hope will contribute to the sector's growth and support future market diversification.
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Jan 20, 2026
The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, put on a show in parts of Canada, the U.S. and Europe overnight Monday into Tuesday, with the vivid display seen much farther south than usual amid intense geomagnetic and solar radiation storms. Video that has been verified by Reuters shows shimmering green and pink hues in the sky over the Yukon hamlet of Mount Lorne.
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Jan 20, 2026
The country's top court spent a second morning hearing arguments about whether it's constitutional for police to make traffic stops without reasonable suspicion the driver has committed an offence.
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Jan 20, 2026
Star moguls skier Mikael Kingsbury heads to the Milano-Cortina Winter Games looking for two medals as part of Canada's freestyle skiing team. Freestyle Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced the 25-athlete team in a joint release on Tuesday.
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Jan 20, 2026
Mounties in B.C. will hold a news conference Tuesday afternoon to provide a four-month update on their provincial extortion task force as the crime continues to hit Lower Mainland cities.
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Jan 20, 2026
Police are probing the 35th case of suspected extortion in Surrey, B.C., this year alone — but B.C. RCMP assistant commissioner says it does not constitute a crisis.
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Jan 20, 2026
Management at Le Massif de Charlevoix and its striking unionized employees have been called to a meeting just one day after the resort announced the cancellation of its ski season.
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Jan 20, 2026
An unseasonably mild winter is coaxing blossoms to bloom early in some Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods, as it experiences one of the warmest Januaries on record.
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Jan 20, 2026
A Calgary mother has been reunited with her son after police arrested the boy's father in Mauritius, more than two years after he's accused of abducting the then-five-year-old.
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Jan 20, 2026
Veteran forward Greg Westlake will head to his sixth Paralympic Games as Canada's Para hockey team looks for its first Olympic gold medal in 20 years at the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics.
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Jan 20, 2026
Australian band Midnight Oil announced on Tuesday that Rob Hirst, their powerhouse drummer and co-founding member, has died at age 70.
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Jan 20, 2026
A former elementary school teacher from Burlington, Ont., has been sentenced for sexually assaulting seven male students in the 1980s. Court heard victim impact statements at the hearing for the 88-year-old.
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Jan 20, 2026
Syria on Tuesday announced a ceasefire with Kurdish forces it has seized swathes of territory from in the northeast and gave them four days to agree on integrating into the central state, which their main ally, the United States, urged them to accept.
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Jan 20, 2026
It wasn't too long ago that Donald Trump's administration hailed the "growing influence of patriotic European parties," but many of those party leaders have taken exception to his aggressive bid to seize control of Greenland for the United States.
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Jan 20, 2026
Officials in Kashechewan First Nation have confirmed 19 people from the community have tested positive for a parasite called cryptosporidium.
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Jan 20, 2026
Penguins in Antarctica are changing their breeding habits at record speed to survive rising temperatures from climate change, a decade-long study has found.
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Jan 20, 2026
Penguins in Antarctica are changing their breeding habits at record speed to survive rising temperatures from climate change, a decade-long study has found.
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Jan 20, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump shared an altered image of a map of the United States that includes Canada, Greenland, Venezuela and Cuba as part of its territory. The original image is from August, when NATO leaders including U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron visited Trump in the Oval Office.
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Jan 20, 2026
Canada's newly named ski jumping team has high hopes heading into the Milano-Cortina Winter Games - and that has a lot to do with Abi Strate.
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Jan 20, 2026
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and international pop star Katy Perry took their relationship to the next level, appearing together at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where Trudeau delivered a speech to the world's elite on the virtues of soft power.
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Jan 20, 2026
Israel demolished structures inside the UN Palestinian refugee agency's East Jerusalem compound ?on Tuesday after seizing the site last year, in an act condemned by the agency as a violation of international law.
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Jan 20, 2026
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Tuesday that Ottawa does not plan to pay the $1-billion US price tag for a permanent seat on U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," that will oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.
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Jan 20, 2026
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.
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Jan 20, 2026
The aunt of a man who was shot and killed in his home by an RCMP officer in Neqotkuk First Nation shared fond memories of her nephew, Bronson Paul, and said she's "angry at the system" for his death.
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Jan 20, 2026
The provincial government says it will work as quickly as it can to secure the St. Mary's fish sauce plant was falling into the ocean, but isn't exactly sure when the decades-old fish sauce inside will be removed.
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Jan 20, 2026
Tens of thousands of Instagram users appear to have been duped by an account purporting to belong to Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding. Instead, a CBC News analysis finds the page features content generated by AI, including images showing a helicopter, a statuette of Wedding and an autographed motorbike.
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Jan 20, 2026
Canada is lagging in robotics adoption, industry watchers say, especially outside of the auto sector. At the same time, robots are taking off, thanks to a boom in China and new approaches incorporating AI. At a time when Canada is concerned about productivity, are we missing the boat?
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Jan 20, 2026
A trio of British hunger strikers is taking food again last week, after claiming victory in a standoff with the U.K. government over the group Palestine Action. The activist group, best known for vandalizing British companies associated with Israel, has been proscribed as a terrorist organization by the government.
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Jan 20, 2026
A relatively new class of autoimmune diseases that affect the brain is throwing psychiatrists for a loop.
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Jan 19, 2026
Alberta emergency room doctors have counted what they say are six potentially preventable deaths as well as numerous close calls for patients who they say waited too long for care in emergency rooms across the province.
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Jan 19, 2026
Actor François Arnaud, who co-stars in the hit Canadian series Heated Rivalry, says while it seems the NHL has figured out that the steamy hockey romance is a big deal, he'd like to see the league do more to promote actual diversity on the ice, rather than just capitalize on the show's success for marketing purposes.
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Jan 19, 2026
Former federal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she will be starting treatment for breast cancer.
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Jan 19, 2026
Jan. 19, 2026 | Trump links his Greenland threats to being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize in a message to Norway's prime minister. A Canadian tourist is found dead in Australia surrounded by dingoes. And food prices hit another high.
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Jan 19, 2026
Ben Maize, a Calgary man accused of tunnelling into his neighbour's apartment, ran his own criminal trial Monday. Betty Golightly testified that she arrived home one day to find her apartment locked from the inside, then discovered holes in the drywall near her fireplace that appeared to lead to a tunnel to the unit below.
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Jan 19, 2026
There are strong signals Canada could fall short of its legally-binding emissions targets, as federal data shows the goal for 2030 is likely out of reach. But beyond the numbers, there's another issue. The group meant to guide Canada to meet those targets is slowly bleeding out.
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Jan 19, 2026
Gerald Benn, who was serving a life sentence for two counts of murder, should not have been found guilty, said the province's top court Monday in its decision to overturn the convictions and enter acquittals.
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Jan 19, 2026
Thaioronióhte Dan David, a renowned Kanien'kehá:ka journalist who helped establish the news department of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, has died.
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Jan 19, 2026
Missing out on infielder Bo Bichette and fellow free agent Kyle Tucker sours what started out as a solid off-season for the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays. But Toronto still has a good enough team to compete for a World Series title.
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