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.
Ben Rhodes’ empty words
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Art & Design
The shame of the Frida Kahlo industry
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U-s-news
Florida woman fatally shot man during Walmart parking spot fight: police
'The preliminary investigation revealed an adult female and the victim were involved in a verbal altercation over a parking space in the Walmart parking lot,' police said.
U-s-news
16 children found at Ohio home, trapped in one room for 4 years, police say
The children, whose identities have not been made public, are believed to belong to the same family and were discovered on Tuesday morning at a home in Ohio.
Entertainment
Inside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s love story: A timeline
Over the last three years, Swift and Kelce have taken the world by storm, highlighted with two Super Bowls, a new album and the highest-grossing tour of all time.
Politics
Democrats urge voters to ‘follow the money’ behind Gordie Howe bridge delay
Democratic candidates in the U.S. midterm elections are tying the delayed opening of the Windsor-to-Detroit crossing to U.S. President Donald Trump's alleged corruption.
Entertainment
Everything we know about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s rumoured wedding
Swift and Kelce, who announced their engagement in August 2025, have remained tight-lipped about the details surrounding their wedding.
Canada
Ottawa will ‘fully’ maintain B.C. tanker ban, Carney and Eby say
The future of the ban came into question after the federal government and Alberta signed a memorandum of understanding in November to lay the foundation of a new oil pipeline.
Health
Measles outbreak in Quebec rises to 27 cases, mostly in Quebec City area
Entertainment
Canada will be in Eurovision 2027. How does it work and what are the rules?
Weather
Ottawa sees more than 100 mm of rain as severe Canada Day storm floods basements
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11-year-old boy driving a truck crashes into Buddhist monks, killing 9
Sports
Toronto Raptors extend head coach Rajakovic
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Andy Burnham’s win-win-win-win-win-win economy
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Nigel Farage’s aura loss
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Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t lost the battle yet
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