Why are AI leaders calling for a slow down?
It's been a remarkable week in the world of Artificial Intelligence. Last Tuesday, a researcher resigned from Anthropic, saying AI companies...
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Risk and reward at Carney’s big investment summit
This week, some of the biggest financiers in the world will be gathering in downtown Toronto along with Prime Minister Mark Carney and the c...
How is Mexico handling the Trump tariffs?
As the trade war between Canada and the U.S. continued to deepen this week, U.S. commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Mexican President Cla...
Is a shaky U.S. bond market good for Canada?
Many economists say the bond market is the most important financial market in the world. It sets the baseline for almost everything Canadian...
Canada retaliates and trade war deepens
The U.S. announced a new string of bans and tariffs against Canadian products, set to go into effect later this month. This came after Canad...
Trump, ICE and the impact of 9/11
This week will mark 25 years since the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Those attacks, by al-Qae...
Why are people vanishing in Dawson Creek, B.C.?
The Mile Zero Murders investigates the baffling wave of disappearances and murders in the small town of Dawson Creek, B.C., a community stru...
Is the age of reading over?
In her piece for the Atlantic, “The end of reading is here”, Rose Horowitch makes the case that across the board in the U.S. – people are re...
Why Quebec’s election has been turned upside down
In just over a month, Quebecers will head to the ballot box. And, until recently, this election seemed like a foregone conclusion: the Parti...
Is Germany's firewall against the far right crumbling?
After a vote this weekend, the far right could take power in a part of Germany for the first time since WWII. Alternative for Germany, or Af...
Protein-maxxing and the age of self-optimization
Protein was once mostly associated with body builders and elite athletes, but today it's advertised everywhere from cereal boxes to fast foo...
Politics! Trade war fallout, byelections
This weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video of an army of geese with orange hair, holding machine guns, defending...
The culture war comes for the WNBA
For most of its history, the WNBA existed on the margins of American professional sports. Its players were outspoken on race, gender and LGB...
What Big Tech wants out of the trade war
When trade talks between Canada and the U.S. broke down last week, one of the issues that reportedly came up was Canadian streaming rules th...
How the trade war is registering in America
On Tuesday, in the ongoing trade war with our southern neighbour, Canada released details on counter-tariffs that will be imposed on a wide...
How will the new tariffs hit Canada's economy?
U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening yet more tariffs, saying he’ll increase levies on cars, trucks and steel to 50% on January 1. Thi...
How the Canada-U.S. trade deal fell apart
On Friday, Canada's trade talks with the U.S. fell apart less than an hour before the deadline for new tariffs hit. While there had been pos...
Carney's big challenge as Canada-U.S. trade deal nears
On Thursday, Canadian trade representatives were in Washington for more talks amid a tentative trade deal with the U.S. Coming out of the me...
Trade war update // What happened to 'woke' politics?
In 2020, the politics of racial justice appeared to be everywhere: the killing of George Floyd sparked one of the largest protest movements...
New U.S. tariffs paused – for now. How did we get here?
Late Tuesday night, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would pause the implementation of the 50 per cent tariffs on a range of Canadia...