Business
The next SEO battle is not rankings. It is AI citations
As Google, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity reshape online discovery, brands are discovering that visibility now depends on whether AI systems can understand, trust and cite them.
Politics
Carney's ‘AI for All’ is a pro-worker plan that forgot the workers
The Prime Minister has bet more than $2bn on artificial intelligence and 250,000 new jobs. But a strategy with no duty to retrain — or even to warn — is straining the limits of his pro-worker branding.
Comment
The shop window is being rebuilt in data — and Canada is dangerously unprepared
AI agents now do the comparing for shoppers. Canadian retailers who treat product data as a technical afterthought will pay for it in sales they never knew they lost.
Business
The Bank of Canada is quietly running out of room — and Carney knows it
Tiff Macklem has cut rates twice this year and signalled a third. But Ottawa's borrowing programme, a stubborn loonie, and a housing market that refuses to clear are leaving the central bank with very little ammunition for the recession nobody is yet calling.
Culture
Canada's World Cup superfans are betting savings, sleep and sanity on a home tournament
From red-eye flights between Mexico City and Toronto to the Voyageurs' singing section at BC Place, a generation of Canadian soccer obsessives is treating 2026 like a once-in-a-lifetime audition for the country.
Why the Islamic Republic of Iran endures
The brutal theocracy maintained from Tehran came to power on the back of decades of misrule
Music
Lola Young isn’t messy on stage
Hollywood
Hollywood failed Marilyn Monroe
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusion
Decentralising power isn’t a solution to any of Britain’s problems
Britain can’t talk about religion
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U-s-news
U.S. Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump order
The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment and federal law in ruling that anyone born in the U.S., with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.
Canada
Carney to visit Saudi Arabia, meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
In 2018, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency concluded that the prince had ordered the killing of a Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
World
Ukraine drone strikes hit major Russian satellite centre near Moscow
In a post on X on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote that long-range defences had reached the Dubna space communications centre in the Moscow region.
World
U.K. lays out future defence plan with technology focus, fight over money
Like other NATO countries, the U.K. is under pressure to increase defence spending to counter a more aggressive Russia and less reliable United States.
Economy
Canadian economy grows 0.5% in April after technical recession
Statistics Canada said Tuesday that real gross domestic product rose 0.5 per cent in April, the fastest growth rate for the economy since July 2025.
U-s-news
Constitutional privacy rules apply to phone location info: Supreme Court
Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the 6-3 court that people don’t forfeit expectations of privacy even when they opt into Google’s location history.
Canada
‘Elbows up’ is now part of the Oxford English Dictionary
World
Best known example of Etruscan paintings displayed in Italy
Canada
Alberta to detail ‘million-barrel-per-day’ pipeline to West Coast Thursday
Health
Canada approves 1st generic semaglutide shot for weight loss
Sports
Toronto ticket prices surge for Ronaldo World Cup game as Vancouver’s plummets
Canada
All 10 provinces now have long-term sick leave after N.B. law comes into effect
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Banning people for their ideas will backfire on Britain
Lawless in Gaza
Alexis Tsipras has found another left to break
The Weekend Interview
Maggie Oliver: “They’re going to re-traumatise victims”
All Change
The late style of Anas Sarwar
Chancellor choices
Who will it be then, Mr Burnham?
The Brexit Decade
We want to rejoin – on certain conditions
Hang on a minute...
Did the public actually want Starmer to stay?
Fresh Machiavelli
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British Politics
PMQs Review: Kemi Badenoch loses her head
The Burnham Project
The Productive State: A framework for Manchesterism
International Politics
ECHR derangement syndrome
Discontented dictators
Putin can no longer hide the consequences of his war
Health
The Amos review tells us nothing we did not already know
Book of the Day
George Forster: Enlightenment iconoclast
Theatre
Billy Budd’s epic universality
TV
Alice and Steve is an embarrassing mess
Film