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.
The Politics Interview
Wes Streeting: I’m a career politician. I think it’s a strength
The former health secretary on why he thinks Labour is failing – but not finished
The Data
Labour has no right to win Makerfield
David Hockney was as serious as he was fun
Behind the uncomplicated joy was an artist who always pushed boundaries
Books
Inside the great deprofessionalisation
Makerfield days
There is a white rage in the air and no by-election is going to change that
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Sports
Canada shooting for 1st FIFA World Cup victory against Qatar in 2nd matchup
Canada and Qatar have faced each other once before, with Canada securing the 2-0 win in a friendly played in Austria in September 2022.
Politics
Ford government refusing to release secret report that suggested selling off ROM artifacts
Consultancy firm Ernst & Young completed an audit of the Royal Ontario Museum toward the end of 2022 after the government tasked them with digging into its finances.
Canada
Canada still doesn’t have a foreign influence registry, and advocates are worried
Six months after publishing draft regulations, the Liberal government has yet to enact the Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act.
Sports
Davies available for Canada against Qatar after injury absence
Short-handed Canada got a boost Wednesday when coach Jesse Marsch said captain Alphonso Davies would be available after missing the opener because of a hamstring injury.
Canada
‘Our lives are here’: U.S. man in limbo after Ottawa suspends citizenship
Some newly approved citizens have been asked to surrender their certificates as Ottawa reviews genealogy records.
Politics
Intimate partner violence will soon have tougher penalties under new law
The Conservative bill essentially leapfrogged the Liberal government's own intimate partner violence bill that includes many of the same measures as 'Bailey's Law.'
Canada
U.S. CDC travel advisory issued for Manitoba over hepatitis A outbreak
Canada
Trump says he would prefer to see CUSMA ‘terminated’
Trending
New evidence of origin of the black death a ‘complete surprise’ experts say
Weather
30% of Canadians say they were hit by extreme weather in last year: poll
Crime
Preliminary hearing for D4vd in killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez delayed
U-s-news
2 teens injured in black bear encounter in Washington state
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Appreciation
Roy Hattersley, bon viveur and Labour hero
The Politics Column
Why Keir Starmer deserves your sympathy
British Politics
Have the Greens all but conceded defeat in Makerfield?
British Politics
Healey and Carns fire their parting shots in the Commons
The case for Burnham
Labour needs a leader who actually enjoys the job
Comment
The social media ban won’t work. It’s still a good thing
Comment
We haven’t learned from Jo Cox’s death
The Weekend Essay
The case for Manchesterism
International Politics
ECHR derangement syndrome
The Weekend Essay
Apartheid fetishism
The Weekend Essay
“How the World Declared War on America”
The Sketch
Chris Philp wants another go at fixing immigration
Theatre
Shakespeare’s Adonis is out of his depth
Film
Does Virginia Woolf need updating?
Books
Thank God for George Michael
TV
OnlyFans, a Great British export
Music