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Carney on what's needed for a U.S. trade deal
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- Carney on what's needed for a U.S. trade deal
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- 1 month ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney said a new trade deal between Canada and the United States remains possible, but it would have to respect Canadian sovereignty and independence.
The Prime Minister spoke Monday afternoon at the Davie shipyard in Lévis, Que., where he announced that Ottawa will spend more than $11-billion to build six new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard.
Carney was also asked to respond to comments by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who said Canada will come back to the negotiating table because American tariffs will be devastating.
“Look, when the Americans go to the negotiation table first, with the right attitude toward our industries and a true partnership, of course we’ll come to the negotiating table,” Mr. Carney said.
Earlier Monday, The Globe and Mail reported that Mr. Carney has no immediate plans to ask Mr. Trump and his negotiating team to return to the table for more trade talks, a source...
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- Why Canada’s biggest paid plasma collector has paused operations
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- 24:49
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- 1 month ago
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- Plasma is the golden fluid part of the blood and it’s used to make life-saving medications for people with immune deficiencies. In Canada, plasma donors were historically volunteers, for the most part. While paid donation was legal in some provinces, it wasn’t especially common.
But in 2022, Canadian Blood Services partnered with Grifols, a Spanish company, to expand paid plasma donation. Now, they operate 17 sites across six provinces. After the deaths of two donors in the past year, however, Health Canada has been examining the company’s procedures. Earlier this month, Grifols announced they were pausing operations.
Chris Hannay covers the business of health for The Globe. Today, he’s here to talk about what we know about Grifols’ temporary closure, what we’ve learned about the deaths, and what this all means for Canada’s access to plasma-based medication.
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- Carney announces retaliatory tariffs on various U.S. sectors
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- 1:37
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- 1 month ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney announced “dollar for dollar” retaliatory tariffs on imports from the U.S. Saturday morning, and said his team walked away from trade negotiations after the American side made unacceptable requests that would have infringed on Canadian sovereignty.
Speaking with reporters Saturday morning on Parliament Hill, Mr. Carney offered several examples of U.S. demands that Canada could not accept, including the fine print related to potential agreements on steel, aluminum and autos, and language that he said would have restricted Canada’s trade negotiations with other countries.
The Prime Minister said Canada is preparing retaliatory measures, which would be revealed in the coming days and will take effect Sept. 8.
#Canada #Breakingnews #tarriffs #unitedstates
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- 'No!' What you told us about buying U.S. booze
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- 1:20
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- 1 month ago
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- Bottoms up? Not so fast.
Trade talks could potentially bring American alcohol back to Canadian shelves, so we asked whether you would buy it or boycott it.
We expected many people would say no, but we didn't expect just how many of you would weigh in. We got nearly 2,000 replies (and counting), each one more creative than the last.
The Globe's consumer affairs reporter, Mariya Postelnyak, breaks down the overwhelming response and why Canadians seem to be in no hurry to wet their whistle with U.S. alcohol. #tradetalks #canada #unitedstates
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- Demis Hassabis wanted to solve intelligence. Then came ChatGPT. (Sebastian Mallaby)
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- 51:24
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- 2 months ago
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- When Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010, his mission was simple: solve intelligence, then use it to solve everything else. What began as a scientific quest would eventually become a fierce global AI race.
Today, DeepMind is owned by Google and is one of the world’s leading AI labs. Journalist and author Sebastian Mallaby spent years interviewing Hassabis, his collaborators, rivals and critics for his new book, The Infinity Machine. It tells the story of the remarkably small group of people who shaped modern AI.
When we recorded this conversation, Hassabis was still CEO of DeepMind, caught between the science he wanted to pursue and the commercial race Google needed him to run. Hours later, he announced he was stepping down as CEO to become Alphabet’s (Google’s parent company) chief scientist.
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- Why Alberta needs thousands more referendum workers
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- 1:28
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- 2 months ago
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- Alberta has a big referendum coming up — but it needs thousands more election workers to pull it off.
Elections Alberta says it needs at least 60,000 workers for the Oct. 19 vote, calling it one of the “largest referendum recruitment efforts ever undertaken in Canada.”
As of two weeks ago, the agency had received 24,000 applications.
It’s also looking for experienced staff in other provinces to help with the marathon 48-hour ballot count that will follow the 12-hour voting day.
Elections Alberta is printing 45 million ballots, as each of the province’s 10 referendum questions will appear on its own sheet of paper.
The agency says the skilled workers from out of province are separate from the 60,000 people and that it’s normal for provinces to help each other during major votes.
Video by Alex Migdal and Matthew Scace. #alberta #abpoli #referendum
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- CNE food options on a $50 budget
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- 0:51
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- 2 months ago
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- Will Canada and the U.S. finally reach a trade deal?
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- 1:51
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- 2 months ago
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- U.S. President Donald Trump said his country has reached a tentative trade deal with Canada, which has postponed the original Aug. 19 deadline to Aug. 21.
Scant details about what's in the deal are beginning to emerge, such as the potential to revive the Keystone XL pipeline, but there is still little known.
At stake are tariffs some of Canada's biggest industries, including automobile manufacturing, steel, aluminum and lumber.
#breakingnews #tariffs #trade
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- Foreign actors target Alberta’s separatist referendum
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- 24:45
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- 2 months ago
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- New research from the University of Regina and the University of Alberta provides evidence that Russian content farms and right-wing U.S. influencers are targeting Alberta’s upcoming referendum. Some foreign actors are trying to foment discord in Canada, while others overtly try to persuade Canadians to join the separatist cause.
Grant Robertson is an investigative reporter with The Globe. He explains how these campaigns work, what messages these foreign actors are pushing and how ready Alberta – and Canada – are to fight back against them.
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- The fate of ship crews stuck in the Strait of Hormuz
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- 21:51
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- 2 months ago
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- More than 6,000 ship workers, including some Canadians, have been stranded in the Persian Gulf – some in the Strait of Hormuz – since the war in Iran began at the end of February. Some workers – also known as seafarers – have been stuck on board without pay, or help from their ships’ owners. With little signs of progress on talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the fate of these workers remains unclear.
One of the people they turn to for assistance is Mohamed Arrachedi, a co-ordinator for the International Transport Workers’ Federation, a group that represents unions across every sector of global transport. Mr. Arrachedi shares what he’s hearing from these stranded seafarers and the challenges involved in getting them the help they need.
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- Carney expects to speak to Trump before tariff deadline
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- 1:29
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- 2 months ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney says he expects to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump before Wednesday's tariff deadline while in St. John's, Newfoundland where he announced a new agreement on the Churchill Falls generating station and the launch of new hydro, wind and transmission projects on Monday. (Aug. 17)
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- Ticks are spreading more than just Lyme disease
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- 24:57
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- 2 months ago
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- Canada is in the middle of one of its worst seasons for ticks. The tick population and tick-borne diseases are climbing year-over-year, and it’s not just Lyme disease that experts say we should be concerned about.
Today, the Globe’s health science reporter Jennifer Yang joins the show to discuss the emergent tick-borne disease causing concern in Canada, why our country’s tick problem is only getting worse, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
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- Tracking and controlling the spread of invasive species in Mediterranean
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- 1:45
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- 2 months ago
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- Marine biologists in Cyprus are tracking and controlling the spread of invasive species such as the lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea. It's part of a growing number of newcomers from the Red Sea and beyond that are displacing native species, reshaping food chains and threatening fisheries because of climate change, experts say.
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- Testing deep space detectors at the bottom of the ocean
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- 0:39
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- 2 months ago
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- History is what scientists hope to make once their gear is deployed at sea.
The cable and spheres are the first instalment of a larger project known as the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment, or P-ONE. As the name suggests, its aim is to detect neutrinos, the lightest and strangest particles of matter known to science.
Neutrinos are everywhere, but interact so rarely with other forms of matter that neither people nor planets pose much of an impediment to them. It’s precisely because neutrinos are so hard to stop or deflect that they have become intriguing.
The only practical way to observe them is with a detector of enormous volume. The frigid, dark waters of the Pacific are ideal for this. When completed, P-ONE will have 70 strings with 20 optical modules each for a total of 1,400. Together, they can monitor about one cubic kilometre of water for signs of incoming neutrinos.
But step one is to risk everything to make sure the machin...
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- Data centres are 'the way of the future': Ford
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- 0:35
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- 2 months ago
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- Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Thursday that data centres are "the way of the future," while also adding that the centres would need to cover all their energy costs and could pay more for electricity than other industrial users.
The province released a data centre framework as it faces pressure to bring in guardrails around the facilities powering the artificial intelligence boom. Ontario will also favour projects that use closed-loop cooling systems to minimize water use, and technology that reduces noise and captures waste heat to warm nearby buildings.
AI data centres have become more controversial in the past year, with some municipalities in Ontario implementing or considering temporary bans on new construction to allow time to study the impacts. Residents in some communities have raised concerns about energy use, water consumption, noise and the true economic benefits.
Oakville, Ont., introduced a one-year moratorium this month, while counci...
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- Japan's Chiba under water as record rainfall disrupts
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- 0:56
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- 2 months ago
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- Record rainfall left thousands of travellers stranded at Tokyo's Narita airport on Friday (Aug. 14) as flooding in the surrounding area disrupted transport, knocked out power to homes and claimed at least four lives. Japan's Chiba is flooded after more than 14 inches of rain fell in 24 hours in parts of the prefecture.
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- Marineland's beluga whale move
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- 0:27
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- 2 months ago
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- On Wednesday, Marineland moved a third batch of whales to U.S. and Spanish aquariums.
Marineland closed its doors to the public in 2024. Before it began shipping the whales to the United States last month, the park had 30 belugas, the last captive whales in Canada.
Marineland has said it hopes to have all the whales gone by the end of August. Footage courtesy of The Canadian Press. #marineland #whales #niagarafalls
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- A look back at Karoline Leavitt's exchanges with the media
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- 1:34
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- 2 months ago
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- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her role at the end of the month, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.
Read more Leavitt leaving at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-to-leave-donald-trump/
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- Puerto Rico drought triggers water rationing
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- 2:02
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- 2 months ago
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- Residents in San Juan lined up at community wells and water distribution points this week as a deepening drought and government rationing program left thousands of households struggling to obtain enough water for daily needs. This comes as Puerto Rico recently began a rotating water rationing program in response to severe drought conditions, forcing tens of thousands of residents to go without running water for up to 48 hours at a time.
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- What it’s like to flee the B.C. wildfires
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- 32:58
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- 2 months ago
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- Summerland, B.C., has been devastated by the Bald Range wildfire. More than 20,000 people have evacuated, and by Wednesday, it had burned 178 square kilometres.
The evacuees don’t know when they can return home yet, and many don’t know if their home is standing at all. Today, we bring you conversations with people on the ground about how they fled the fast-moving wildfire, and how they’re coping with uncertainty and loss.
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- Syria's Bashar al-Assad and why was he sentenced to death
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- 2:34
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- 2 months ago
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- A Syrian court has handed former president Bashar al-Assad a death sentence in absentia, the first conviction against the leader ousted in 2024 after more than two decades in power. But who is Assad, what crimes was he convicted of, and how are Syrians reacting to the landmark ruling?
Read more at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-former-syrian-president-al-assad-sentenced-to-death-in-absentia/
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- Woman and cat rescued after Colombia earthquake
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- 0:26
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- 2 months ago
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- A woman identified as Daniela Largo Sanchez was rescued alive in Pereira, Colombia, on Tuesday after spending 36 hours trapped under rubble, the Bogota Fire Department reported. Rescue crews also pulled a kitten out of a collapsed building elsewhere in the city.
Footage courtesy of Reuters. #colombia #earthquake
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- Luluemon’s fight to stay on top of athleisure
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- 25:44
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- 2 months ago
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- For years, the Canadian athletic-wear brand Lululemon both pioneered and dominated the athleisure retail market. It turned workout gear into a status symbol, growing its international operations to 30 countries. But there’s trouble – a public battle with its founder, controversies over its marketing and a cratering stock price have all amounted to serious problems for the once-stalwart brand.
Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe’s retailing reporter, dives into the issues Lululemon faces, crunches the numbers of its financial outlook and asks what happens when a big brand loses its cool.
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- Canadian banks are going big on AI
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- 24:54
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- 2 months ago
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- Canadian banks are leaning heavily into AI adoption. More than 30 per cent of finance and insurance firms are using AI, compared to just 1.5 per cent of businesses in accommodation and food services. The banks are spending millions, in some cases billions, of dollars on AI programs, like chatbots for customers, for employees, and even for a CEO’s morning briefing.
Today, we’ve got The Globe’s banking reporter Stefanie Marotta on the show. She’ll explain how banks are using AI (including ways customers don’t ever see), the risks they’re weighing, and what it means for the adoption of AI across Canada.
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- Colombia quake traps residents under rubble
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- 0:55
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- 2 months ago
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- At least 47 people were killed and dozens of buildings collapsed in cities across western Colombia on Monday after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the South American nation.
The quake trapped residents under debris, leaving more injured and forcing people to evacuate their homes as far as the capital of Bogotá.
#colombia #earthquake #naturaldisaster
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- Making Halifax into Canada’s defence city
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- 22:39
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- 2 months ago
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- Steeped in military and naval history, Halifax is increasingly used as the backdrop for announcements of defence investment. The city is poised to benefit from substantial investment thanks to Mark Carney’s commitment to meeting NATO targets. But as more development arrives, is Halifax able to support the demands of an increased strain on its infrastructure and housing supply?
Chris Wilson-Smith went there to find out. He’s a business reporter and the author of one of The Globe’s daily newsletters, Business Brief. He’s on the show to explain how Halifax is trying to make sure it makes the most of this moment.
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- Christian nationalists are building a pre-civil rights community in America
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- 2:02
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- 2 months ago
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- Pastor Doug Wilson is out to make America Christian again – according to his own version of the faith – the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding.
For decades, Mr. Wilson was a Christian nationalist in a nation that paid him little heed. He insisted on holding beliefs that, each year, grew further out of step with the mainstream.
Yet the Idaho preacher is no longer a voice in the wilderness. In the 1990s, he counted three congregations in the Calvinist denomination he founded. He’s now at 170, with a global church body in the tens of thousands, including in Canada.
Developers are acquiring land in places such as rural Tennessee to build communities filled with people who share his views.
And Pastor Wilson’s influence now extends to Washington, where the congregation of a new church includes U.S. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth and more than a dozen members of the Trump administration.
Video by Nathan VanderKlippe an...
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- Scenes of wildfires raging in B.C.'s Okanagan and Summerland region
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- 0:16
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- 2 months ago
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- The British Columbia government declared a state of emergency as wildfires burned large swathes of the Okanagan and Summerland region.
The Bald Range wildfire was first reported at 4:29 p.m. Friday, but it grew in size, burning 50 square kilometres in a few hours. By Saturday afternoon, the fire had doubled, growing to 103 square kilometres.
More than 20,000 residents were forced to evacuate Summerland, population 12,000, and other Okanagan Lake communities Friday night and Saturday morning as the wildfire destroyed homes in its path.
About 8,000 more people were ordered to leave their homes Saturday in and around Peachland. By Saturday evening, the evacuation alert extended to the northern edge of Penticton.
On Sunday, about 10,000 homes were under evacuation orders in Summerland, Peachland, the regional districts of Okanagan-Similkameen and Central Okanagan, and the Penticton Indian Band lands. More than 3,300 homes were under evacu...
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- 'I don't have confidence' in FIFA's Infantino: Carney
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- 0:34
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- 2 months ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that he did not have confidence in FIFA president Gianni Infantino, and endorsed CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani as Mr. Infantino's successor.
Mr. Carney’s comments came days after Mr. Infantino abandoned a proposed sale of 20 per cent of FIFA to private investors to raise US$4.2-billion. The plan had received fierce opposition from the Union of European Football Associations, national soccer federations and senior FIFA advisers.
Mr. Montagliani is FIFA's vice president and the CONCACAF president. The Canadian was instrumental in the country’s bid for the 2026 World Cup.
#fifa #canada #Carney #Soccer
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- How much Canadians spend on skincare in their 50s
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- 1:14
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- 2 months ago
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- We asked six Canadians in their 50s to share how much they spend on skincare and beauty products each year.
Fifty looks a lot different now than how it used to - and that's thanks to everything from a generation that loves Botox to skincare to staying the heck out of the sun.
The mid-life beauty conversation is moving away from anti-aging messaging and toward longevity and aging well, experts say. The latest data from Statistics Canada showed households including those aged 40 to 54 spent $2,467 on personal care in 2023 and those aged 55 to 64 spent $1,759, increases since 2021. This included a boost in skin care spending. The non-stop rollout of products and technology begs the question: is it worth it?
#beauty #skincare #beautytips #canada #personalfinance
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- Trade Off: Can you beat the stock market?
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- 0:50
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- 2 months ago
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- Want to test your investing smarts? Last year's winner of The Globe's simulation trading game, Trade Off, was able to yield a 78-per-cent return. Think you can build a killer portfolio? The game begins on August 10.
#investing #trading #stocks
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- 'El-Nino is a blessing' for Indonesian salt farmers
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- 2:25
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- 2 months ago
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- Salt farmers in Indonesia's West Java province are reaping the benefits of an El Nino-driven drought even as crop farmers brace for a prolonged challenge from the baking heat.
This report by Reuters.
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- How Gen Z says ‘oui’: Meet Quebec’s young sovereigntists
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- 24:20
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- 2 months ago
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- With a Quebec provincial election on deck this fall, and the Parti Québécois leading in the polls, there’s a good chance Quebec will hold another referendum on independence. Support for separation is polling at around 30 per cent — far below the majority vote result needed to form an independent country. However, a new generation of sovereigntists is cropping up, one that hadn’t even been born for the last referendum, in 1995.
Maura Forrest is a Quebec correspondent for The Globe and Mail. She’s on the show to talk about what Gen Z sovereignty looks like, how it differs from previous movements, and the implications for the upcoming election.
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- The remains of the Okanagan Lake fire
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- 1:08
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- 2 months ago
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- Charred debris and still-smouldering fires are all that remain along the shores of Okanagan Lake in British Columbia's Interior.
Okanagan Indian Band Chief Dan Wilson said Tuesday that 30 homes of band members and 200 non-band homes have been destroyed in the wildfire, which started late Friday and prompted the issuing of evacuation orders Saturday.
The BC Wildfire Service said the province had about 120 active wildfires as of Tuesday, with roughly 50 of them burning out of control. Footage courtesy of The Canadian Press. #wildfires #okanagan #britishcolumbia
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- Canadian NATO intern accused of spying
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- 20:43
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- 2 months ago
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- A Canadian woman has been arrested and accused of spying for a third country during her internship at NATO’s headquarters in Belgium. The woman had a work history with Canadian government agencies and was once found to have committed fraud when trying to apply for a job with the Canada Border Services Agency.
This case is now raising questions about how the Canadian government vets its candidates, especially for roles that could have access to sensitive information. Greg Mercer is an investigative journalist with The Globe and one of a team of reporters working on this story. He joins the show to explain what we know so far.
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- Evacuees recount fleeing wildfires near Okanagan Lake
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- 0:50
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- 2 months ago
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- Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes over the weekend because of multiple fires burning near Okanagan Lake, British Columbia.
Vernon, B.C. has become a place for people to gather as they figure out next steps. The fire is now measured at more than 26 square kilometres in size after first being discovered on Friday and spreading rapidly over the weekend with winds reaching 115 kilometres an hour in some locations.
Footage courtesy of The Canadian Press.
#Wildfires #BritishColumbia #Okanagan
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- Can You Really Teach a Robot Empathy? This Roboticist Says Yes.
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- 32:08
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- 2 months ago
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- You've probably seen one by now: a human-sized robot doing very human feats – landing a perfect backflip, racing through the streets of Beijing, or dancing in a crowd at a Knicks game. But behind these viral moments, there is serious money. Analysts predict the market for humanoid robots could be worth trillions in a matter of decades.
Everyone from trillionaire Elon Musk to Chinese President Xi Jinping is betting humanoids are the future – that one day, they will live alongside us – in our homes, and even our military. The question is: can we trust them?
Angelica Lim has spent her entire career trying to build trustworthy robots. A roboticist based at Simon Fraser University, Lim joins Machine’s Like Us to share lessons from building the world’s first mass-produced humanoid named Pepper, and why empathy in robotics is more important than ever.
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- The family keeping a love for pinball machines alive
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- 2:07
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- 2 months ago
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- The Astill family, helped by a dozen volunteers and pinball collectors, organized the fourth annual Ontario Pinfest. For these pinball enthusiasts, love for the arcade game runs deep – and across generations.
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- Inside ‘Davos on the dock,’ the invite-only Muskoka conference
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- 23:00
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- 2 months ago
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- The Dock has been around since 2015. It’s an invite-only conference where tech, business and political leaders gather to talk. This year it was at a billionaire real estate magnate’s cottage estate in Ontario’s Muskoka region. And Prime Minister Mark Carney attended for part of the three-day conference.
Guests are asked not to talk about what happens there, but business reporters Tim Kiladze and Sean Silcoff managed to report details about who goes, what ideas get suggested to the government and a dramatic moment involving Shopify CEO and co-founder Tobi Lütke.
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- The surprising source of most wildfire smoke
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- 1:36
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- 2 months ago
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- Where does wildfire smoke actually come from?
When we're talking about wildfires and the smoke in the air, it's natural to think about the trees that are burning and the carbon that's in the branches and leaves. But that's only part of the story. Video by Ivan Semeniuk and Sarah Espedido.
#Wildfire #Canada #Environment
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- Body of missing Calgary boy, Parker, found in underground pipes
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Calgary Police say Parker, the 11-year-old boy who had been missing for 13 days – and whose disappearance sparked a massive search by officers and community members – has been found dead.
Calgary Police Chief Katie McLellan said Parker was discovered on Wednesday afternoon deep in a network of pipes near one of the city’s major expressways after a citizen discovered his shoes at the mouth of a culvert near an industrial park in the city’s northeast.
Parker was neurodivergent and non-verbal. Since he disappeared, police had maintained foul play was unlikely and, on Wednesday, they said that they still believe he wandered off on his own volition.
Hundreds of police officers and thousands of Calgary residents had been searching for clues ever since he vanished. Investigators struggled to track down CCTV evidence of his most recent whereabouts and Calgary Police committed more than 400 officers to the search.
#calgary #parker #canada <...
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- Ontario’s failed bid to expand Toronto’s island airport
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- 28:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Billy Bishop Airport, located on the western edge of the Toronto Islands, just south of downtown, has long been the subject of controversy. There was opposition to its expansion when Porter Airlines launched back in 2006, and again in the early 2010s when Porter wanted to allow jet traffic. The latest push to expand Billy Bishop took off in earnest in the spring, when Ontario Premier Doug expropriated Toronto’s stake in the agreement between three levels of government that govern the airport. However, after six weeks of public consultation, the Liberal government declined to allow jets at Billy Bishop “at this stage.”
Jeff Gray covers Ontario politics for the Globe. Today, he’s here to explain why the question of expanding Toronto’s downtown airport is so hotly contested, the unique agreement that governs it and where the saga goes from here.
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- The bike rides helping seniors beat isolation
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- “The right to wind in their hair.”
That’s the motto of Cycling Without Age, a charitable volunteer group that takes seniors from care facilities on recreational bike rides.
The goal is to promote recreation and social connection for seniors.
The organization has 144 chapters across Canada and a burgeoning network of 3,700 chapters across 56 countries.
Globe health reporter and columnist André Picard recently spent a day riding with the group and saw firsthand how it leaves residents feeling energized and re-invigorated.
This story is part of The Globe’s series Care Between The Lines, which profiles volunteers in health care who fill gaps and provide compassion in a system that can feel isolating and scary.
Video by André Picard and Alex Migdal. #vancouver #seniors #cycling #volunteerism
- Title
- OpenAI's rogue agent compromised a customer at second tech firm
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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.
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- What’s up with Canada’s condo market?
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- 25:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The Canadian condo market is crumbling. As prices continue to plummet, thousands of condo units sit empty and unsold in Vancouver and Toronto – two of Canada’s largest real estate markets. While buyers grow increasingly hesitant, both federal and provincial governments are trying different tactics to revive the market, with degrees of success.
The Globe’s real estate reporter, Rachelle Younglai joins The Decibel to talk about how the condo market ended up in this state, what’s being done about it and what its future may hold.
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- ‘It’s something inhuman.’ says volunteer aiding firefighting in Spain
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Volunteers who are joining the fight against wildfires in Ávila, west of Madrid, express their anger over lack of assistance from authorities as they fight to save the the city and area west of Madrid. The fire has become Spain’s largest on record, scorching more than 500 square kilometres, the government said.
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- Why chicken is so expensive right now
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- 23:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- First, beef prices went sky-high. Now, the price of chicken is getting more expensive — and Canadian chicken production is struggling to keep up with demand. Between a protein craze driving up demand and a supply crunch affecting producers, the wholesale price of chicken has shot up 12 per cent since May, 2025.
Kate Helmore is The Globe’s agriculture and food policy reporter. She joins us to explain what’s contributing to chicken’s dramatic rise, and when prices might start to level out.
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- Taiwan's civilian defence strategy against a China invasion
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- For decades, Taiwan knew it could count on U.S. support if China were to make good on its vow to unify the self-governed island of 23 million with the mainland.
But under President Donald Trump, that security guarantee is no longer a certainty.
Taiwan’s small, but growing, civilian vanguard does not expect to stop an invasion. Instead, the movement is focused on what it would take for the island to survive the first days of a war, blockade or emergency that disables the systems it depends on.
Video by The Globe’s Marcus Yam, Moira Wyton and Sarah Espedido.
#taiwan #china #geopolitics
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- The Odyssey and IMAX’s Canadian roots
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- 25:45
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- When’s the last time going to see a movie was a cultural event? Director Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has people flocking to theatres for its star-studded cast and action-packed storytelling — but also because of the way it was made. The Odyssey is the first full-length feature shot entirely with IMAX film and getting a ticket to see it in ‘the best format’ has sent some Canadians on odysseys of their own.
Today, the Globe’s Deputy Arts Editor and Film Editor, Barry Hertz, is here. He’ll explain how this movie has become such a box-office phenomenon, what IMAX and its Canadian roots has to do with it, and why he thinks it’s the future of filmgoing.
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- Why one bridge is testing Canada-U.S. ties
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Canada celebrated the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge on Friday – without the United States.
A Canadian premier, ambassador and a federal minister attended the ceremony, but no U.S. representatives were present. They were disinvited after U.S. President Donald Trump announced 50-per-cent tariffs against Canada.
The ceremony marked the official opening of a bridge between Windsor and Detroit that has been 25 years in the making. It was originally supposed to open in June, but the Trump administration blocked it over a toll-revenue dispute.
The first vehicle will cross the bridge on Monday. Its competitor – the Ambassador Bridge – has been the only bridge to service the intertwined communities for more than 100 years.
The Globe’s Kate Helmore explains the bridge’s stalled opening and the tension it reflects between the two countries.
Video by Kate Helmore and Kelsey Wilson. #GordieHoweBridge #Windsor #Detroit #C...
