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.
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Books
Inside the great deprofessionalisation
Theatre
Shakespeare’s Adonis is out of his depth
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U.S. Senate votes to block military action against Iran for 1st time
The U.S. House of Representatives approved the war powers resolution earlier this month, but the measure is largely symbolic and does not carry the full force of law.
Crime
Officers recently killed in line of duty represent ‘disturbing trend,’ police say
Data shows the number of Canadian police deaths due to intentional harm, such as gunfire, has already exceeded the annual average in 2026.
Crime
Montreal shooter’s ‘anti-women’ manifesto reflects growing warnings: experts
Experts in extremism and gendered violence say the manifesto is representative of authorities' recent warnings about the evolution of ideologically-motivated violent extremism.
Canada
Artist behind controversial photograph in Fredericton gallery defends it as ‘sacred’
The artist behind a controversial photograph blasted as blasphemous by detractors says renewed criticism over its display in Fredericton misses the point.
Canada
Banks must resolve or close consumer complaints within 56 days: watchdog
The FCAC's revised guideline also states that banks are not permitted to pause the legislated 56-day period in order to 'provide consumers greater transparency.'
Crime
Man arrested in Hungary for collecting human body parts from cemeteries
Hungary's National Bureau of Investigation announced that the 30-year-old man from Budapest was arrested on suspicion of illegal use of human bodies.
Canada
Bank of Canada security workers on strike after negotiations failed
Canada
Canadian travel to U.S. has increased for 1st time since January 2025
Consumer
These are the most affordable cities in Canada, Royal LePage says
U-s-news
Savannah Guthrie speaks out following ransom note on mom’s possible death
U-s-news
2 more suspects arrested in alleged plot to attack White House UFC event
Sports
Edmonton Oilers hire Mike Babcock as head coach
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