Culture
American classicist Daniel Mendelsohn calls The Odyssey a blueprint for all comedy
The Bard College professor and New York Review of Books editor brings levity and moral gravity to his new Penguin Classics translation of Homer.
Culture
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey brings Hollywood spectacle to Homer's epic
The director's new adaptation sparks casting debate while the original poem remains untouched.
Culture
George Cottrell's U.S. money-laundering case and ties to Nigel Farage
The British operative pleaded guilty to U.S. wire fraud charges before resurfacing in London with Nigel Farage.
Culture
Loyalist exodus shaped Canada after American Revolution
Thomas Hutchinson became the face of loyalist defeat, but thousands who fled north built the foundations of modern Canada.
World
Putin's offensive stalls as Ukrainian drones hit Russian fuel, testing NATO resolve
Russia's fuel crisis deepens while Canada and allies weigh next steps in long war.
Culture
Rolling Stones' latest album feels familiar to North American fans
The British icons' new record delivers the reliable sound that has filled arenas across Canada and the United States for decades.
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.
World
The Russian design bureau at the centre of Europe's shadow-fleet investigation
PKB Petrobalt rarely features in discussions of Moscow's naval power. Now the EU is examining its role in designing the civilian vessels Western officials fear are mapping undersea cables and pipelines.
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.
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.
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.
Politics
Canada Football 2026: A nation's confidence test
As the country co-hosts its first FIFA World Cup, the politics of national pride collide with the realities of public investment.
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Consumer
Canada’s avocado supply not impacted by U.S. pause on Mexico inspections
The U.S. government this week halted inspection activities in Michoacan, Mexico's top avocado-producing state, where organized crime groups have extorted growers and exporters.
Trending
Abbot’s kneecap returned 70 years after it was taken from 13th century grave
George Box, who died last year, was 11 when he swiped the bone fragment while on a school trip to Glastonbury Abbey in the summer of 1956.
Health
Stanford scientists just used AI to build a virus to target E. coli
Scientists at Stanford University have created the first-ever virus designed by AI. Researchers used a generative AI model called EVO 2 to create a specific kind of virus.
Canada
Perseid meteor shower and partial solar eclipse to light up skies next week
Cited by the Canadian Space Agency as 'the best meteor shower of the year,' the peak viewing night is set to be Aug. 12-13.
U-s-news
Minnesota woman sues Chipotle after being hospitalized for salmonella
In the lawsuit, the woman claims she was hospitalized with 'a life-threatening complication of the salmonella infection caused by Chipotle's grossly contaminated food.'
Trending
Miss North Carolina USA stripped of pageant title after racism allegations
Brittany Boltinhouse, 27, had her title revoked after A Blaze Productions — the pageant organizer — said it had conducted a thorough review of 'recently surfaced information.'
Crime
Child driving car strikes woman walking dog in California, police say
U-s-news
U.S. Senate passes bill that would impose punishing new sanctions on Russia
Canada
Ottawa sells 10 retired military planes to convert for aerial firefighting
Entertainment
Country musician Tommy Detamore dead at 70
Canada
Ford is planning an EV under $40K. Can it compete with Chinese vehicles?
Health