Toronto is a “world-class city,” says its mayor Olivia Chow. But for a growing number of its residents, the city is unrecognizable from decades ago, whether it’s the homelessness, open drug use, empty storefronts, or crumbling infrastructure.
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As the race to lead in artificial intelligence intensifies, Silicon Valley startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996”
SAN FRANCISCO — Magnus Müller works around-the-clock, including Saturdays and Sundays. Sometimes that might mean starting at 7 a.m. until he goes to sleep at midnight or 1 a.m. The co-founder and CEO of the AI start-up Browser Use lives in a co-living space known as a “hacker house” with five others in the upscale Marina neighborhood of San Francisco. This living situation allows his team to convene around a whiteboard at 1 a.m. to work out new ideas for AI agents.
We are living in an era of historic spending on Indigenous priorities. The 2024–25 federal budget devotes nearly $32 billion toward programs and services. That level of commitment demands more than applause — it demands evidence and accountability. The question is simple: where is all that money going, and is it truly reaching the people it is meant to help?
When China tightened restrictions on rare-earth exports this month, stunning the White House, it was the latest reminder of Beijing’s control over an industry vital to the world economy.
Its dominance was decades in the making.
Since the 1990s, China has used aggressive tactics to build up and maintain its lock over rare-earth minerals, which are essential to making magnets needed for cars, wind turbines, jet fighters and other products.
Bringing an end to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives within Canada’s government, as proposed by Pierre Poilievre, would allow people to be chosen for roles based on merit and character, says the founder of a Canadian think tank.
“It goes to the basic question of what kind of society you want and what governments should be doing. Governments should not have bureaucracies whose job it is to discriminate based on skin colour, ethnicity, gender,” Mark Milke told National Post.
Prince Andrew allegedly asked his taxpayer-funded Metropolitan Police bodyguard to gather information on Virginia Giuffre.
Documents show Andrew saying he had asked one of his elite personal protection officers to find damaging information about Giuffre shortly before a notorious photograph of the pair with Ghislaine Maxwell was published in 2011, according to the Mail on Sunday.
There is no suggestion that the officer complied with this request.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is steering Canada toward an economic wreck with his plan to ban the sale of new gas and diesel vehicles by 2035.
Carney has announced a one-year pause and a two-month consultation to find a way out.
The Louvre Museum in Paris has been forced to close while police investigate a brazen heist which targeted France’s priceless crown jewels.
Thieves wielding power tools broke into the world’s most visited museum in broad daylight, before escaping on scooters with eight extremely valuable items of jewellery.
Here is what we know about the crime which has stunned France.
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— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 20, 2025
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As the saying goes, when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them. And where cars are concerned, Donald Trump has been telling us exactly who he is.
He warned in April, “We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us.” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently confirmed this goal, telling a Canadian audience “car assembly is going to be in America, and there is nothing Canada can do about it.”
Rah Rah!
This tiny piglet was hanging off the back of a livestock truck and then pic.twitter.com/KJFvymZxOx
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) October 18, 2025
Russian spies and hard-left humanitarian groups are working with people smugglers to flood Europe with illegal migrants, a Bulgarian minister says.
Daniel Mitov, the interior minister, said his government had evidence that Russia’s foreign intelligence service had direct links with the criminal gangs facilitating illegal immigration into the European Union.
He said Russian spies were helping people smugglers find weaknesses in the EU’s external borders, including Bulgaria’s border with Turkey, and were telling migrants how to exploit EU and UK asylum systems and avoid removal.
This is very plausible and applies also to Canada and the USA except they have a Trump and we have co-conspirators and fellow travelers.
The left wing is so radicalized that this is their reaction to simply reading the words “TPUSA” on a press badge
This guy started telling me what a “racist bigot” Charlie was & called me a “token” before police stepped in due to how aggressive he was: pic.twitter.com/FOP7l3d6W9
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) October 19, 2025
Canadians with disabilities are being offered medical assistance in dying (MAID) when accessing health care for regular health concerns, a disabilities advocate told a parliamentary committee on Oct. 8.
“People with disabilities are now very much afraid in many circumstances to show up in the health care system with regular health concerns, because often MAID is suggested as a solution to what is considered to be intolerable suffering,” Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, told the Parliamentary Finance Committee on Oct. 8.
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