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Liberals courting up to eight more potential floor-crossers, sources say
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- Liberals courting up to eight more potential floor-crossers, sources say
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- 10 hours ago
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- As many as eight more opposition MPs are being courted to possibly cross the floor, three Liberal sources told The Globe and Mail.
Conservative and NDP MPs are in the mix, the sources said.
The sources are all veteran Liberal organizers, and two are directly involved in reaching out to potential recruits. The Globe is not identifying them as they were not authorized to disclose internal party operations.
MP Marilyn Gladu's decision to leave the Conservatives for the Liberals last week gave the Liberals 171 of 343 seats in the House of Commons, one shy of a majority. Three of the 343 seats are vacant, and the results of Monday's by-elections could tip the Liberals over the edge. #cdnpoli #canada
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- What you need to know about taxes as the CRA aims to improve
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- 24 hours ago
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- It’s tax season again, an often tedious time dreaded by many Canadians. But this tax season could be different. After ongoing concerns around slow and inaccurate responses, the CRA is trying to improve by implementing AI and digital services, for instance.
The Globe’s personal economics reporter Erica Alini has been looking into how effective these changes have been, and what this means for Canadians.
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- Artemis II splashes down after mission to the moon
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- 3 days ago
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- The four astronauts aboard Artemis II, including Canadian Jeremy Hansen, have officially returned home.
Their Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego just after 8 p.m. ET on Friday, completing the Artemis II crew’s nearly 1.2-million-kilometre journey.
Getting safely back to Earth was a big milestone to overcome.
While hurtling toward the planet at more than 38,000 kilometres an hour, the spacecraft, named Integrity, had to endure a 13-minute high-speed descent through Earth’s atmosphere.
At about 120,000 metres above the Earth’s surface, the capsule was travelling at approximately 33 times the speed of sound. The crew was expected to experience up to 3.9 Gs in the planned entry profile.
At around 1,800 metres above water, three main parachutes deployed, reducing Integrity’s speed to less than 218 km/h.
The capsule landed at an estimated speed of 27 km/h. #artemisii...
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- Poilievre calls for byelections when MPs change parties
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- 4 days ago
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- Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canadians should be able to force a byelection if the MP representing them changes parties.
His comments on Thursday came the day after Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu became the fourth Conservative to defect to the Liberals since November.
Poilievre told reporters the floor crossings are an affront to Canadians.
“Mark Carney is saying to Canadians that your vote does not count, that he will overpower the decision that you made through dirty backroom deals,” he said, flanked by several members of his caucus.
Mr. Poilievre would not comment on speculation that the Liberals may convince other Conservative MPs to cross the floor and insisted his job as party leader remains secure. #cdnpoli #canada
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- Iran’s power grows ahead of peace talks as Gulf remains on edge
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- 4 days ago
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- On Friday, negotiators from the U.S., Israel and Iran are set to talk in Pakistan about the future of the war. The Gulf Arab states, who have been attacked during the conflict, will not be party to the talks. But they have a lot depending on the outcome.
Today, the Globe’s international affairs columnist Doug Saunders joins the show from Dubai, where he is witnessing the impact of the ceasefire in the region. He breaks down what this agreement – and any future long-term deal – means for Iran, the Gulf region and the Strait of Hormuz.
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- Canada won't sanction Israel over Lebanon strikes: Carney
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- 4 days ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney says he isn't considering sanctions against Israel over recent attacks on Lebanon that appear to violate a ceasefire in the Middle East. He says Lebanon must be included in the end of hostilities.
Despite an 11th-hour ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Israel attacked Beirut on Wednesday in a renewed effort to strike at the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.
Those blasts killed at least 203 people and wounded hundreds more in the deadliest day of the war in Lebanon since the latest conflict began on Feb. 28.
Carney was among the world leaders who signed a statement issued Wednesday calling on all sides to implement a ceasefire, including in Lebanon. That statement was reissued Thursday, with more than 10 additional world leaders adding their names to the statement.
“We strongly condemn the air strikes launched by Israel across Lebanon, including in Beirut, which killed civili...
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- What the new Artemis photos reveal about the moon
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- 4 days ago
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- The Artemis II mission has revealed unexpected glimpses of Earth and the moon. While it has been captured by digital cameras in the past, it's the astronauts' human eyes that are helping add details this time. The Globe’s science reporter, Ivan Semeniuk, shares what the crew has discovered. #space #astronaut #science
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- How close are the Liberals to a majority?
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- 5 days ago
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- MP Marilyn Gladu's decision to cross the floor in the House of Commons could have big implications for the Liberals. The Globe’s Stephanie Levitz explains what’s needed for the party to achieve a majority. #cdnpoli #canada
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- Groceries, airfare and EVs: the war is changing how we spend
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- 5 days ago
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- After the U.S., Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday night, oil prices eased on Wednesday. Many details of the ceasefire remain unclear – including when and how the Strait of Hormuz will become passable again. Since the effective closure of the Strait, the rising cost of oil has been impacting prices across a number of industries – from airfare, to delivery, to groceries. In some cases, fuel surcharges are as high as 45 per cent.
Today, the Globe’s consumer affairs reporter, Mariya Postelnyak, breaks down why we’re seeing prices go up, whether they’ll stick around, and how consumer behaviour is shifting.
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- Mark Carney makes a very Canadian call to space
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- 5 days ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney had a video call with the astronauts on Artemis II, and as he quickly learned, the lag is real when you're talking to space.
Speaking primarily with mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, who is Canadian, Carney commended the crew on their bravery, their willingness to take risks and to learn from failure, especially for the young people watching.
"We do think risk is necessary, but calculated risk, well thought-out risk, and risk that you balance with others," Hansen responded. "For youth that are making those decisions, do it in collaboration with others."
The planned splashdown for Artemis II is on Friday.
#artemisii #space #markcarney #jeremyhansen
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- Mark Carney makes a very Canadian call to space
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- 5 days ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney had a video call with the astronauts on Artemis II, and as he quickly learned, the lag is real when you're talking to space.
Speaking primarily with mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, who is Canadian, Carney commended the crew on their bravery, their willingness to take risks and to learn from failure, especially for the young people watching.
"We do think risk is necessary, but calculated risk, well thought-out risk, and risk that you balance with others," Hansen responded. "For youth that are making those decisions, do it in collaboration with others."
The planned splashdown for Artemis II is on Friday.
#artemisii #space #markcarney #jeremyhansen
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- What we learned from Artemis II and what comes next
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- 5 days ago
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- The Globe's science reporter Ivan Semeniuk answers reader questions about the Artemis II program.
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- Why this Ontario MP crossed the floor to the Liberals
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- 5 days ago
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- Marilyn Gladu, a four-term Conservative MP who once sought leadership of that party, decamped Wednesday for the Liberal government, saying she could achieve more on that side of the aisle.
“We need a global leader with a plan to make a more resilient Canada, a stronger Canada, a more self-reliant Canada for this critical moment,” she said as she stood next to Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Mr. Carney said Ms. Gladu had distinguished herself as a collaborative MP willing to work across party lines. He also noted her past experience as an engineer. “We couldn’t be happier to have this expertise, experience and energy coming to our team,” he said.
Ms. Gladu was first elected as the MP for Sarnia–Lambton–Bkejwanong in 2015. In last year’s election, she won just over 53 per cent of the vote.
Ms. Gladu’s decision to leave for the Liberals stunned fellow-Conservatives; as recently as late March, Ms. Gladu had accused the Lib...
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- Another crucial strait that could strangle the global economy
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- 5 days ago
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- A lot of attention has been given to the Strait of Hormuz amid Iran’s closure in response to attacks by the U.S. and Israel. But another key strait in the region, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the coast of Yemen, has also been threatened with a shutdown, and it’s similarly vital to trade.
Thomas Juneau is a professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. As an expert on Yemen and the Houthis, Juneau discusses the importance of the strait, the relationship between Iran and the Houthis, and what it would mean if the Bab al-Mandeb Strait were closed.
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- Oil dives, stocks surge as Trump agrees two-week ceasefire
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- 6 days ago
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- Oil prices dived, bonds rallied and stocks surged on Wednesday (April 8) after a two-week ceasefire in the Middle East spurred a relief rally as investors cheered the possible resumption of oil and gas flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.
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- Michael Pollan Says AI Isn't Conscious – But Plants Might Be
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- 6 days ago
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- Four years ago, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine went public with a strange claim: he thought the large language model he’d been working on had become sentient. At the time, virtually no one took him seriously. (Including, it would seem, Google, who promptly fired him). But lately, it’s started to seem like Lemoine might have been on to something.
When I interviewed Geoffrey Hinton last year, he was pretty confident that artificial intelligence was already exhibiting signs of sentience. Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, has said that he can’t be sure that his chatbot, Claude, isn’t conscious.
But what exactly does that mean? A chatbot may be intelligent, but does it have a sense of self? And what would happen if it did?
These are the kinds of strange, mind-bending questions Michael Pollan wrestles with in his new book, A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness.
It’s the kind of book that raises more questions than...
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- After daring moon flyby, Artemis II astronaut says 'it really just bent your mind'
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- 7 days ago
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- After travelling deeper into space than any other humans, the Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar cruise that revealed views of the far side never beheld by eyes until now.
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- Saskatchewan’s new massive ‘pink gold’ mine
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- 7 days ago
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- Australian mining company BHP has made the largest investment in the company’s history in Saskatchewan, opening the province’s biggest potash mine. The potassium compound, known as “pink gold,” is key to growing food and is an essential part of Canada’s economy. Thirty per cent of the global supply comes from Saskatchewan alone.
The Globe’s agricultural and food policy reporter, Kate Helmore, got to see the mining project first-hand. She joins the show to talk about the development, whether it could serve as a blueprint for other major projects and what it could mean for Canada’s economic sovereignty.
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- Emotional moment as astronauts make history
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- 7 days ago
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- Artemis II astronauts have set the record for furthest distance that humans have ever travelled from Earth, surpassing the distance of 400,171 kilometres set by Apollo 13 in April, 1970.
After breaking the record, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said the crew came up with suggestions of names for two unnamed features on the lunar surface. One is a feature close to the transition between the near and far side of the moon, which they requested it be called Carroll, after Carroll Taylor Wiseman, commander Reid Wiseman’s wife, who died of cancer in 2020.
#Artemis2 #ArtemisII #space #moon
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- Navigating Canada's fertility industry
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- 8 days ago
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- A growing number of Canadians are struggling with fertility, and the business helping people make babies is booming. The global fertility services market was valued at over $21-billion in 2021 and is projected to more than quadruple by 2031. As more hopeful parents turn toward services like in-vitro fertilization – or IVF – and surrogacy to conceive, Globe investigative journalist Kathryn Blaze Baum worries they may not know exactly what they’re signing up for.
Today, Blaze Baum shares her first-hand story and reporting into the fertility industry in her new book, In Fertility: The Story of a Miracle and the Big Business Behind It. Kathryn will explain what it’s like to navigate assisted reproductive technology, its high costs financially and emotionally, and what she thinks needs to change about how Canada handles fertility.
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- Why some doctors are critical of B.C.'s new health care regulations
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- 12 days ago
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- April 1 marked the start of a new regime to regulate health care in B.C. – the first overhaul of the system in 30 years. The Globe’s health reporter and columnist André Picard describes it as the biggest change in the regulation of health professionals the country has ever seen.
Today, André explains the changes now implemented – including amalgamation, disciplinary changes and punishment for misinformation – why the B.C. government says they’re necessary, and why some of them have caused controversy.
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- Artemis II lifts off on mission ‘for all humanity’
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- 12 days ago
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- NASA launches three U.S. astronauts and a Canadian on humanity's first crewed lunar voyage in more than half a century, a 10-day flight around the moon on Artemis II. The primary focus of this mission is to test life-support systems in preparation for long-term space travel to Mars.
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- Artemis II lifts off for ten-day mission around moon
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- 12 days ago
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- NASA's Artemis II has lifted off, sending four astronauts - including Canadian Jeremy Hanson - on a 10-day flight around the moon. The launch marks the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans to the lunar surface. #NASA #ArtemisII
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- Alberta Education Minister introduces wide-ranging bill meant to remove ‘ideology’ from classrooms
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- 13 days ago
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- Alberta is introducing legislation to remove “ideology” from classrooms by prohibiting teachers and school boards from making political or social statements outside their purview and ensuring schools can display no flags but those of Canada and Alberta, with some possible exemptions, among other measures.
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- Artemis II: A Canadian heads to the far side of the moon
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- 13 days ago
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- April 1st marks the earliest possible date that lunar mission Artemis II could lift off. Decades have passed since humans last visited the moon. After launch, four astronauts – including Canadian Jeremy Hansen – will travel all the way around the celestial body. If all goes according to plan, he’ll become the first Canadian – and non-American – to go to the moon.
Decibel producer Madeleine White takes us on a journey along with The Globe’s science reporter, Ivan Semeniuk, They explore how Jeremy Hansen got a seat on this coveted mission, explain why it’s so hard to return to the moon, what the mission entails, and how Canada fits into it all.
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- Can Bangladesh make the July revolution stick?
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- 13 days ago
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- In February, Bangladesh held its first free and fair elections in almost a decade. But two years after student-led protests led to the ouster of its authoritarian leader, many fear that, without reforms, the country could slide once again into dictatorship. The Globe’s James Griffiths reports from the country’s capital, Dhaka. #bangladesh
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- What it takes to get Artemis II to the moon
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- 14 days ago
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- The countdown has begun for Artemis II, the mission set to fly a Canadian astronaut and three U.S. crewmates around the moon over the next several days.
If the weather forecast holds up — and there are no interruptions to the preparations — the rocket could lift off as early as 6:24 p.m. ET on Wednesday or up to two hours after that to be in position for a lunar flight.
There are additional launch opportunities every day until April 6, after which the shifting position of the moon relative to Earth would require waiting another 24 days.
Depending on the timing of the launch, Artemis II astronauts could see parts of the Moon’s far side that no humans have ever seen directly. #artemis #space #spacetravel #astronaut #nasa
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- Who is Avi Lewis, the new NDP leader?
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- 14 days ago
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- On Sunday, the New Democratic Party elected Avi Lewis as its new leader. He takes the reins of a political party still reeling from losses in last year’s federal election, which cost them official party status and left them with only seven seats. Another blow came earlier this month, when Nunavut MP Lori Idlout defected to the Liberals. Without a seat in Parliament and overseeing a party with minimal resources, how Lewis will rebuild the party and what it will look like remain big questions.
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- Artemis II: The journey to the moon's far side, step-by-step
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- 14 days ago
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- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be the first Canadian to fly beyond low Earth orbit. Hansen explains the stages of the Artemis II, a mission that will fly astronauts around the Moon’s far side.
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- Can Avi Lewis bring the NDP back to life?
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- 14 days ago
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- On Sunday, the New Democratic Party elected Avi Lewis as its new leader. He takes the reins of a political party still reeling from losses in last year’s federal election, which cost them official party status and left them with only seven seats. Another blow came earlier this month, when Nunavut MP Lori Idlout defected to the Liberals. Without a seat in Parliament and overseeing a party with minimal resources, how Lewis will rebuild the party and what it will look like remain big questions.
So today, we’re convening a panel with Campbell Clark, The Globe’s chief political writer, and Robyn Urback, a current affairs columnist for The Globe. They join the show to talk about where Lewis might steer the NDP and what it all means for the party’s future.
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- Will Drake ever come back to the Junos?
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- 14 days ago
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- Drake seemingly ended his Junos boycott on Sunday when he made a video appearance for a Nelly Furtado tribute.
The Canadian rapper hasn’t attended the show since he hosted the 2011 ceremony in Toronto. He lost all six of the awards he was nominated for that year.
Drake took a moment in his tribute to rehash how Canadian rapper Shad had won all those awards back in 2011.
“To the Junos, because you are honouring one of my dearest friends tonight, I will spare you,” he said, in what seemed more like self-deprecating humour than true grudge. “Tonight we’ll let it go... This is about Nelly.” #junos #music #drake #canada
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- Céline Dion announces 10 comeback concerts in Paris
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- 15 days ago
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- Céline Dion is returning to live performances.
The legendary Canadian singer will hold a series of 10 concerts in Paris, starting September 12, 2026.
Dion posted a video announcing the events on Monday, which was also her 58th birthday.
The singer has publicly struggled with stiff person syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, in recent years. Her last performance was a celebrated rendition of Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l’Amour” at the 2024 Paris Winter Olympics opening ceremony. #celinedion #canada #music
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- Prediction trading is coming to Canada
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- 15 days ago
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- Prediction trading is exploding in popularity, with the industry set to rake in about US$2 billion in revenue this year alone. Companies like Kalshi and Polymarket have popularized the practice, which lets you bet on nearly anything – from Taylor Swift’s marriage status to election outcomes. This past week, Canadian company Wealthsimple cleared hurdles to offer Canadians something similar, but the rules will be different here and a fragmented system makes regulation tricky.
The Globe’s retirement and financial planning reporter Meera Raman broke the Wealthsimple news. She joins us to explain what the market may look like in Canada and the challenges regulators face in protecting investors.
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- Airlines face fare dilemma as fuel spike threatens travel demand
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- 15 days ago
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- As global airlines begin to hike fares and cut capacity to cope with surging oil prices, the industry's ability to remain profitable may depend on whether consumers pull back on flying to save money amid high gasoline costs.
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- Can the NDP's new leader turn the tide for Canada's left?
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- 15 days ago
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- The NDP currently holds just six seats after winning a record-low share of the popular vote in the 2025 election and losing Nunavut MP Lori Idlout, who crossed over to the Liberals earlier this month. The party remains far from achieving official status in the House of Commons.
But in his first speech as leader, Avi Lewis, who does not hold a seat in Ottawa, sought to revive hopes for the party, pledging to bring it back to what he referred to as the NDP’s glory days. The Globe’s Stephanie Levitz looks at whether Lewis could revive the NDP’s slumping fortunes. #ndp #NewDemocrat #cdnpoli #canada
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- How deer are helping scientists track the changing environment
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- 17 days ago
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- A team from Trent University set traps at Thousand Islands National Park to capture white-tailed deer. Scientists collect DNA and affix the deer with location trackers to study how genes and the environment shape the destiny of an entire species.
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- To ban or not to ban: Canadian teens weigh in on social media
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- 18 days ago
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- This week, decisions in two landmark trials in the U.S. found social media companies responsible for harms to youth on their platforms. They follow years of growing concern about the dangers that social media poses to young people. Now those concerns are starting to show up in policy decisions. Back in December, Australia banned those under 16 years old from creating accounts on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. Other countries are considering similar legislation – including Canada. But what do teenagers themselves think of these potential social media bans?
Samantha Edwards is The Globe’s online culture reporter. She assembled a group of Canadian teenagers to talk about how they actually use social media, what adults get wrong, and what they think about losing access to the platforms they use to talk to their friends.
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- The landmark case over rights and freedoms at the Supreme Court of Canada
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- 18 days ago
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- This week, a case involving Quebec’s use of the notwithstanding clause went before the Supreme Court of Canada. In the last decade, many provinces have used the clause to override federal powers to pass controversial laws.
While cases involving the notwithstanding clause have gone to the Supreme Court before, none have had the potential precedent-setting magnitude of this one, with major implications for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The hearing was one of the longest at the country’s highest court in a decade.
The Globe’s justice reporter, David Ebner, breaks down the landmark case, including when we can expect a decision. #canada #supremecourt #Bill21 #NotwithstandingClause
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- Where did the viral Project Hail Mary cardigan come from?
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- 18 days ago
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- Ryan Gosling's zip cardigan from Project Hail Mary is getting attention from moviegoers and fashion lovers alike. The fox pattern comes from Mary Maxim, a yarn and needlecraft brand founded in Manitoba known for their "curling sweaters." The Globe’s Alex Migdal explains how the film’s designers discovered the sweater and repurposed it for the space film, creating a slew of new fans. #projecthailmary #ryangosling #marymaxim #costumedesign
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- 'Miracle' more weren't killed in Air Canada crash: aviation expert
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- 19 days ago
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- As experts assess the aftermath of the Air Canada Express plane crash at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday, some say they're surprised it wasn't worse — despite the tragedy of a disaster that left two pilots dead.
Industry insiders say commercial planes are built for flight, not for withstanding head-on collisions with fire trucks that can weigh between 25 and 50 tonnes.
John Gradek, an aviation management lecturer at McGill University, says it’s a “miracle” there weren’t more deaths, noting that the jet angling up after the crash minimized damage to the rest of the plane. #aircanada #aviation #laguardia
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- Meta, Google lose landmark U.S. case over youth addiction to social media
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- Alphabet's Google and Meta were found liable on Wednesday for designing platforms that are dangerous for kids and teens, in a landmark verdict that could force tech firms to rethink how they defend themselves against safety claims.
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- How the war in Iran exposes the limits of China’s influence
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- 19 days ago
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- Since the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran almost a month ago, the ripple effects of the war have been felt globally. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has affected oil prices worldwide, but energy shocks are especially felt across the rest of Asia, which is heavily dependent on energy from the Gulf states. The 35 million migrant workers living in the Gulf – the bulk of whom come from South and Southeast Asia – are in a particularly precarious position. And China, a strategic partner of Iran, has found itself on the sidelines of this war.
The Globe’s Asia correspondent James Griffiths explains the geopolitics at play and how the war is impacting the day-to-day lives of people across the continent.
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- ‘Lack of compassion’ in Air Canada CEO’s English-only condolence video: Carney
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- 20 days ago
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- Air Canada chief executive Michael Rousseau is receiving heavy criticism over his ability and willingness to speak French.
Rousseau offered a video message of condolence almost completely in English to the families of the two pilots who died in a plane crash at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday night.
Antoine Forest, the pilot in command of the Air Canada Express flight when it collided with a fire truck on the runway during landing, was a francophone from Coteau-du-lac, Que. His co-pilot was Mackenzie Gunther from Ontario.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that Canada is a bilingual country and that Air Canada has a responsibility to communicate in both official languages, regardless of the situation.
“I’m so disappointed by the video message by Air Canada’s CEO,” Mr. Carney said. “It lacks judgement and compassion.”
Parliament’s official languages committee summoned Mr. Rousseau on Tuesday to e...
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- Iran war hits global economy
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- 20 days ago
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- Any prolongation of the Iran war risks creating an unprecedented crisis in energy supplies that sooner or later will hit every corner of the global economy. But it is already clear that some countries are either more exposed to that impact or less able to deal with it. Here are the economies to watch.
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- How sweeping cuts could impact Canada’s public sector
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- 20 days ago
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- The federal government is hoping to make room for the new spending outlined in last year’s budget by making cuts across the public sector. The goal is to save $60 billion over the next 5 years. Departments like Library and Archives Canada and the Correctional Service of Canada are reducing their workforces, while some programs, like one for public transit, are seeing funding cuts.
The Globe’s deputy Ottawa bureau chief, Bill Curry, explains what we know so far about the cuts and the potential impacts on the services provided to Canadians.
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- When do newsrooms start calling a conflict a 'war'?
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- 20 days ago
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- When the United States and Israel first launched strikes on Iran on February 28, news organizations were assessing the action in real-time. The first reports used careful language, and within a few hours, outlets started using the term "war."
Globe standards editor Sandra E. Martin shares how those first few hours unfolded, what constitutes a 'war' and how news outlets decide when to start using that term in their reporting.
#IranWar #DonaldTrump #News #MediaLiteracy
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- Afghans speak freely from inside Afghanistan on live TV
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- Afghan expats run Amu TV, and their most popular program is a live call-in show that provides Afghanistan with one of the few platforms for free expression. Callers speak openly about daily life under Taliban rule.
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- Why Did We Stop Talking About The AI Apocalypse (Nate Soares)
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Just a few years ago, it seemed like all anyone in AI wanted to talk about was existential risk – this idea that an artificial super intelligence could eventually break containment and destroy humanity. More than 30,000 experts signed an open letter demanding a pause on AI development; bills were drafted that would constrain the most powerful new models; and the “godfathers” of AI were travelling around the world, warning anyone who would listen that we were hurtling toward our extinction.
And then: we moved on. We started using AI for work, and school, and to plan our kids’ birthday parties. Collectively, we just stopped talking about the end of the world.
But Nate Soares didn’t move on. Last year, the artificial intelligence researcher wrote a book with Eliezer Yudkowsky called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. As you can probably tell from the title, the book is unequivocal: If we keep going down the path we’re on, it will almost certainly lea...
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- The trouble with enforcing Canadian food labels
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Amid threats of annexation and U.S.-imposed tariffs, Canadians are using their dollars to purchase Canadian goods. However, consumer complaints about products mislabelled as Canadian have spiked since the Buy Canadian movement began. Some in the food and beverage industry say cracking down too hard on mistaken labelling could backfire, dissuading retailers from promoting Canadian foods.
Susan Krashinsky Robertson and Kate Helmore, both journalists for The Globe’s Report on Business, join The Decibel to discuss Canadian food labelling, the benefits of the Buy Canadian movement for farmers and producers, and how retailers can leverage patriotic shoppers to rebuild trust with them.
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- ‘Everything in front of me collapsed’: Air Canada passenger
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- Clément Lelièvre recalls the moment the Air Canada jet he was on collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport. Two pilots died and the 39 passengers onboard were taken to hospital. #aircanada #aviation #laguardia
