
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.

Political Economy
Andy Burnham’s crusade against neoliberalism
Unproductive, indebted and internationally uncompetitive, Britain is caught in a savage economic bind

Mad King Trump
Donald Trump’s war on Iran was an incoherent failure
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Entertainment
Singer Bonnie Tyler out of induced coma but ‘remains very unwell’
'Bonnie is no longer in a coma but remains very unwell and in intensive care in hospital in Portugal,' Bonnie Tyler's representatives said in a statement.

Entertainment
Jelly Roll files for divorce from Bunnie XO after nearly 10 years of marriage
The 41-year-old 'Need a Favor' singer filed for divorce from Bunnie XO on May 18, according to court records, viewed by Global News.

Sports
Federal Court to hear case of World Cup player denied entry amid rape claim
Ghana's bid to get midfielder Thomas Partey into Canada for the World Cup heads to Federal Court this morning.

Trending
Multiple arrests thwarted planned attacks on White House UFC event, FBI says
FBI head Kash Patel said authorities learned about the possible threat on June 10, four days before the mixed martial arts extravaganza on the White House’s South Lawn.

Canada
Canada enters talks with Italy on buying advanced trainer jets
The announcement was made after a meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains.

Canada
Canada imposes new Russian sanctions during G7 meeting with Zelenskyy
In 2026, Canada has provided $2.8 billion in military assistance to Ukraine, imposed sanctions on more than 3,400 individuals and entities as well as 600 vessels.
Canada
Ford government scolded agency over cyber attack. Docs show it knew a month earlier
Canada
Refugee board orders deportation of Bishnoi extortion gang gunman
Economy
AI is creating a ‘two-track’ job market, report says. What it means for you
World
Gas prices may not return to pre-Iran war levels anytime soon, experts say
Canada
12 children injured in Cultus Lake B.C. water park electrical incident
Politics
Liberals introduce privacy reform bill amid concerns over AI, data use
Economy
What Trump’s Anthropic AI ban means for Britain
Books
The myth of English insularity

What did the Black Death ever do for us?
A history of the Black Death overlooks its more surprising developments

Books
Living with and without Paul Auster
TV
The kids who want to be Kardashians
Books
England is in a state

Video Games
Britain needs James Bond
Film
Disclosure Day’s earnest hokum
3. “You know you’re not protected”: inside parliament’s staff crisis
4. We haven’t learned from Jo Cox’s death
5. Labour needs a leader who actually enjoys the job
How Britain lost control
Mariana Mazzucato, rockstar economist
Meet Andy Burnham’s northern queens
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
Donald Trump’s definition of “beauty”
Why is America still talking about Kamala Harris?
The Iran debacle didn’t stop Trump in Cuba. It spurred him on
Appreciation
Remembering Roy Hattersley, Labour titan
The Weekend Essay
The left must be honest about immigration
British Politics
How to solve Britain’s defence crisis
Music
Danny Bones: The far right’s Frankenstein’s monster
The Weekend Interview
Wes Streeting on Keir Starmer’s “poor leadership, poor judgement and bad politics”
Pogroms
The Belfast riots: new targets, old hatred
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”
Ideas
