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 long goodbye
The timeline: How Starmer lost control
It all went so wrong so quickly
Political Sketch
Thank you, Keir Starmer, next
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
Theatre
Shakespeare’s Adonis is out of his depth
Keir Starmer: A Political Obituary
He arrived in politics unprepared for what a career in politics actually means
Will Keir Starmer resign?
From Canada
via Global News
Canada
Canada commits to purchase Arctic radar system components from Australia
Canada and Australia have agreed on terms to allow Ottawa to buy components of the Arctic over-the-horizon radar system from BAE Systems Australia.
Economy
Statistics Canada to release May consumer price index Monday morning
Statistics Canada will release its latest reading for May inflation today.
World
U.K.’s Keir Starmer announces he is resigning as prime minister
Starmer is the sixth prime minister in a decade to stand outside 10 Downing Street and announce a premature departure, two years after a landslide election victory.
Sports
Tanenbaum’s Kilmer Sports Ventures invests in PWHL
Toronto businessman Larry Tanenbaum is once again investing in women's sports.
Canada
Feds’ AI bill good ‘first step’ but safety advocates say more work needed
The bill includes measures to lower the risk of chatbots communicating harmful content and crisis intervention protocols for cases involving self-harm, suicide or violence.
Canada
Civilians behind international police probe into Russian cybercriminals
An international joint operation targeted SocGholish malware which exploited thousands of WordPress sites with the aim of gaining unauthorized access to computer systems.
World
Pressure mounts on U.K. PM Starmer to resign as Trump weighs in
Canada
More than 100mm of rain falls on Montreal: floods homes, causes outages
Canada
The hard-fought race to build Canada’s next submarine fleet
Crime
Alleged attack on imam in B.C. condemned by Muslim groups, federal minister
Entertainment
Communities mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day
News
Quebec town recognizes the rights of trees
More headlines
Nigel Farage flailing is extremely funny
Makerfield days
A modern Canterbury tale
Elon Musk is the bastard heir of liberal capitalism
David Hockney was a swirling, explosive star
Trump’s glittering climbdown in Versailles
“I’m Palestinian, it’s impossible to look away”
Donald Trump’s war on Iran was an incoherent failure
The biggest New York Knicks fans are in London
Banning people for their ideas will backfire on Britain
Lawless in Gaza
Alexis Tsipras has found another left to break
British Politics
The Tories are a local party now
Northern boy
Makerfield proves the potency of Brand Burnham
British Politics
What does Andy Burnham really think?
One Battle After Another
Green Party’s Manchester mayoral candidate revealed
After Makerfield
What happens now?
TV
The series that predicted Burnham’s Makerfield victory
International Politics
ECHR derangement syndrome
The Weekend Essay
Apartheid fetishism
King of the North
Andy Burnham has one chance to save the North
The Burnham Project
The Productive State: A framework for Manchesterism
Film
Does Virginia Woolf need updating?
Books
Thank God for George Michael
TV
OnlyFans, a Great British export
Music