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.
The Weekend Essay
Tony, Gordon, and me
Why the Islamic Republic of Iran endures
The brutal theocracy maintained from Tehran came to power on the back of decades of misrule
Music
Lola Young isn’t messy on stage
Hollywood
Hollywood failed Marilyn Monroe
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Sports
London Knights stretch draft streak to 58 years
It's a streak that reached 58 years when the Philadelphia Flyers called the name of Maksim Sokolovskii at number 27 overall on June 26 in Buffalo, N.Y.
Weather
Flooding concerns, tornado threats sweep across Canadian Prairies
Flooding concerns are mounting in Alberta as Edmonton nears a June rainfall record, while tornado watches and severe storms threaten parts of Saskatchewan.
Weather
Manitoba wildfire forces mandatory evacuation of Lynn Lake
A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for Lynn Lake as a rapidly advancing wildfire threatens the community. Residents and visitors have been told to leave immediately.
Canada
B.C. premier visiting China to pitch LNG project as province’s ‘really big fish’
B.C. Premier David Eby says his first trade mission to China will focus on forestry, seafood and LNG as the province looks to expand trade beyond the U.S.
Canada
Canada’s first offshore wind farms move closer to reality as regulator clears bidders
Canada’s first offshore wind farms moved closer to reality as Nova Scotia regulators approved companies to bid on seabed licences later this year.
World
Canadian teacher in Venezuela describes chaos as earthquakes’ death toll climbs
A Canadian teacher living in Venezuela says people are digging through rubble by hand and sleeping in parks as search efforts continue following a pair of devastating earthquakes.
Entertainment
Museum exhibit on displaced Palestinians to open
Canada
Teens terrorize Vancouver Island neighbourhood with ‘door-kick challenge’
Politics
More Haitian asylum seekers to come, advocate says
Health
Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it’s a bad idea
Environment
Alberta woman catches close encounter with Kananaskis grizzly bear on camera
World
Burnaby Urban Search and Rescue team deploys to Venezuela after deadly earthquakes
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Banning people for their ideas will backfire on Britain
Lawless in Gaza
Alexis Tsipras has found another left to break
The Brexit Decade
We want to rejoin – on certain conditions
Fresh Machiavelli
Can James Purnell do a better job than Morgan McSweeney?
British Politics
PMQs Review: Kemi Badenoch loses her head
The Sketch
Andy Burnham does a Lenin
Left flank
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The Burnham Project
The Productive State: A framework for Manchesterism
International Politics
ECHR derangement syndrome
The Weekend Essay
Apartheid fetishism
The Weekend Essay
“How the World Declared War on America”
Ideas
What Jürgen Habermas leaves behind
Economics
Andy Burnham has made a fragile peace with the bond markets
Left Hook
Elon Musk is the bastard heir of liberal capitalism
The Weekend Report
How Britain can cool off
TV
Alice and Steve is an embarrassing mess
Book of the Day
George Forster: Enlightenment iconoclast
Theatre
Billy Budd’s epic universality
Film