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
This new history of America, told through political speeches, can’t see that progress truly comes through division
Art & Design
The shame of the Frida Kahlo industry
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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.
Entertainment
Canada will be in Eurovision 2027. How does it work and what are the rules?
Last week CBC/Radio-Canada announced it had become a full member of the European Broadcasting Union, making Canada eligible to participate in the contest.
Weather
Ottawa sees more than 100 mm of rain as severe Canada Day storm floods basements
A storm that started abruptly on Canada Day in Ottawa saw about 118 millimetres of rain fall and left thousands of people without power.
Trending
Venezuelan man pulled alive from basement rubble 8 days after twin quakes
Rescuers initially made contact with Hernán Alberto Gil Flores over the weekend and began a days-long operation to pull him from the ruins.
Trending
11-year-old boy driving a truck crashes into Buddhist monks, killing 9
The victims were among a group of 35 Buddhist monks and five followers who were on their way from a temple in Mukdahan, about 600 km northeast of the capital Bangkok, to another.
Sports
Toronto Raptors extend head coach Rajakovic
The Toronto Raptors have agreed to a multi-year contract extension with head coach Darko Rajakovic, the team announced Thursday.
U-s-news
U.S. hiring slowed in June with 57,000 jobs added amid global turmoil
Weather
Toronto cancels World Cup broadcast at Nathan Phillips Square due to extreme heat
Environment
Heat wave heads to Maritime provinces after bearing down on Ontario, Quebec
Canada
Canada’s UN ambassador says Carney’s Davos speech is being implemented
Canada
Alberta’s Smith set to unveil details of proposed oil pipeline
Canada
Carney’s Davos speech being put in practice at UN, ambassador says
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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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