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.
Politics
Exclusive: Andy Burnham has the nominations to trigger a leadership challenge
Burnham plans to present the list to Starmer to encourage him to stand down without a contest
The Politics Interview
Wes Streeting: I’m a career politician. I think it’s a strength
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
Makerfield days
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Politics
Liberals dismiss ‘tinfoil hat’ privacy fears as lawful access bill passes
Conservatives and other opposition parties sought to address privacy concerns in Bill C-22, but the Liberal government shut down debate and fast-tracked the bill.
Politics
‘No secret’ Trump dislikes CUSMA, Carney says after threat to terminate it
Carney was asked about Trump's comments Wednesday that he would prefer the continental trade deal be 'terminated' rather than extended.
Trending
Cervical cancer death risk drops near zero for young women after HPV shot
If not immunized, it is estimated that 75 per cent of sexually active Canadians will have an HPV infection at some time in their lives.
Canada
People on GLP-1 drugs appear to do less physical activity: study
Participants' daily steps decreased from about 5,047 to 4,487 per day. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity also dropped, from 28 minutes a day to 22 minutes a day,
World
Why strategic oil reserve refills will take ‘a lot of time’ after Iran deal
If the Strait of Hormuz reopens following the signing of the Iran peace deal on Friday, experts say it will still take some time to replenish the world's strategic oil stockpiles.
Canada
Secretary of state Sahota says ‘foreign entity’ hired people to shoot at synagogues
Ruby Sahota suggested the shooters were recruited online and said that if authorities had been able to find them sooner, there would have been fewer victims.
Entertainment
Lil Nas X breaks silence on rehab, reveals bipolar diagnosis
Politics
Carney says B.C. infrastructure funding to include new Tumbler Ridge school
Health
Actor Daveigh Chase is dead at 35 after meningitis. What is it?
Trending
Banff staff explore unknown underground structure found at Lake Minnewanka
Politics
House of Commons to rise for summer Thursday after passing flurry of bills
Entertainment
Shania Twain says ‘I don’t see myself as a feminist,’ reflects on menopause
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British Politics
PMQs review: Burnham haunts the benches
After Andy
What will happen in a Manchester mayoral by-election?
Appreciation
Roy Hattersley, bon viveur and Labour hero
The Politics Column
Why Keir Starmer deserves your sympathy
British Politics
Have the Greens all but conceded defeat in Makerfield?
British Politics
Healey and Carns fire their parting shots in the Commons
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
What Jürgen Habermas leaves behind
Economy
What Trump’s Anthropic AI ban means for Britain
The Data
Labour has no right to win Makerfield
Theatre
Shakespeare’s Adonis is out of his depth
Film
Does Virginia Woolf need updating?
Books
Thank God for George Michael
TV
OnlyFans, a Great British export
Music