Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faces police investigation into ‘alleged inappropriate behaviour at Royal Ascot’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On this day in 1986, the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Calgary Flames to win their 23rd Stanley Cup. It was the first All-Canadian Stanley Cup Final since 1967. Patrick Roy won the Conn Smythe as Playoff MVP, the youngest winner in NHL history. 📸 Pierre Obendrauf

Oh hey! Let’s talk about the taxes paid by counties because OooOooOoOh CaNaDA pays So MuCH moRe tAx! Oh look. The OECD for 2026 shows that Canada pays about 2.1% more than the USA. Not bad for healthcare, world-class university at $10K per year, and so much more. www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

Bio of the Day: John Saunders (1754–1834), judge and politician. He fought for Britain during the American Revolutionary War and settled in New Brunswick. Appointed a Supreme Court judge, he was conservative and inflexible, but opposed slavery.

I’m also perplexed - I threatened to bankrupt my neighbour to take over his home, make him and his wife work and hand over his money to me, and now he’s frustrated with me and won’t even pay me to eat at my home. What’s with people? #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

CBC News : Volunteer firefighter dies while fighting Annapolis County wildfire www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Friends and family must engage in a very unpleasant, difficult and necessary conversation about the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, in a movie with a surprisingly hopeful message Read our verdict of this year's Camera d'Or winner at Cannes: dmovies.org/2026/05/24/b...

Not complaining and we’re clearly better for it, but going to the gym or for a run has become a basic expectation for functioning adults that eats up scarce off-work hours that older generations instead had for chilling, cooking, building ships in a bottle or whatever

Canada is expected to kowtow to US demand to drink more American booze & visit the US. #cndpoli "Trump’s man in Ottawa doesn't understand why Canadians are so frustrated right now. U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says tariffs are here to stay, and Canada needs to accept it." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

How a European island ended up in a New Brunswick harbour. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Vibrant colours paint the sky at Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy in this #ScenicSaturday moment by Can Geo Photo Club member Richard Labelle. Join the Photo Club, or tag #ShareCanGeo for a chance to be featured: https://bit.ly/3z9QSOi #HopewellRocks #BayofFundy

House of Commons Agriculture Committee wants federal govt cuts to ag research reversed. www.producer.com/news/agricul...

Why are journalists still amplifying the separatists' 300,000 signature number? Even in pieces like this. The separatist talking point was concocted by a man with a passing familiarity with truth in numbers. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

We're working on an episode about alcohol and want to hear your questions! Why does tequila make me dance? Why can I handle vodka but not whiskey? Is "beer before liquor, never sicker" actually true? Whatever your question is, we want to hear it AND the story behind it. Call us at 877-4-SCIFRI.

Swing voters in North Carolina say they are frustrated with President Trump and the state of the economy but aren't ready to abandon him or his party as the midterms inch closer.

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"On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. It will exercise leverage with dozens of the richest nations in the world." Sounds like Robert Kagan was right www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

My Saturday column this week is all about how Ukraine, facing defundingnand abandonment from its allies, did some unexpected: It started regaining ground. It is a sign that we should be investing more in their fight. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Trump accepts his humiliating defeat.

Here’s what one woman has created with a 124-year-old church in Saskatchewan - The oldest building in Estevan, which predates Saskatchewan as a province, is once again welcoming weary travellers in its latest incarnation.

Rising USD bond rates have US farm industry worried about rising interest rates. After Trump gifts of higher fertilizer prices and tariffs, now his fans are preparing to pay more for loans. Ag runs on debt, so higher interest rates are a disaster. www.farmprogress.com/max-armstron...

First a referendum on independence. Now a constitutional amendment to limit s35. Is Premier Smith deliberately sabotaging her own pipeline bid by threatening to remove treaty rights? Or are her advisors just that naive? nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Thanks, US-owned Postmedia, for the USian take on this story, and ignoring all other points of view.

I think it's important to cover these stories, let me be clear. But my God, it's infuriating to read about poor disillusioned young men as though women didn't endure years of #MeToo laying bare how we aren't even seen as human beings. But we're not starting fascist fight clubs!

Danielle Smith called for the losing side of this referendum to “accept the judgement of people and the direction that we go.” That’s unlikely. This referendum is guaranteed to string out this debate. daveberta.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

Could fire tornadoes offer a cleaner way to clean up oil spills? eos.org/articles/the...

Mexico stands with Cuba. Canada stands off in a corner, looking at its shoes.

CBC warns Alberta separatism may not disappear after one failed vote. Brexit, Quebec, Scotland… history shows these movements rarely end quietly once politically organized. So why are UCP insiders acting like this referendum will “put it to rest”? CBC matters. Context matters.

I wrote about how Danielle Smith took a good, hard look at the existential damage that could be done to Alberta and to Canada by a separatism campaign and she decided that one thing mattered above all: Danielle Smith. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

My letter in today's Toronto Star:

European Union’s public debt trajectory could become “explosive,” hurting the bloc's economy, if no action is taken to deal with fiscal pressures, the International Monetary Fund told EU finance ministers today.

ICYMI — Israeli settlers installed screens in a square as if it were a soccer match, cheering every bomb that explodes the homes of families in Lebanon… dystopian… (From Trita Parsi) @tparsi.bsky.social

🔥Democracy scholar & Stanford fellow @FukuyamaFrancis: “🇺🇸 decline is a direct product of Trump's rise. It’s as if he decided try to weaken 🇺🇸 vis-à-vis 🇨🇳 — friends/rivals agree 🇺🇸 is a rogue state contributing to global instability… a laughingstock.” (H/T @clashreport)

'They have been here all along yet were invisible to our tech-enhanced eyes—much like the imperceptible dark matter that seems to make up most of the weight in our universe' Our bodies are full of proteins that shouldn't exist. What are their roles? www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

"approximately 15% of churches in our sample engaged in direct political advocacy during the 2020 and 2024 presidential election cycles, and about 8.4% during the 2022 midterm" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Africa has great potential as a market for Canadian wheat. www.producer.com/news/african...

Tracking down prominent Albertans behind delinquent oil and gas companies: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilp...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith blames Liberal MPs, NDP leader Avi Lewis, and unnamed leaders in BC, for the national unity crisis that erupted after she announced a secession referendum: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @mattscace.bsky.social

Nice try, but nobody is that naive. No country that values sovereignty will buy this well-meaning dog & pony show. "Seeking to reassure U.S. allies, a bipartisan group of senators is departing for a tour of Arctic nations. And this time they’re leaving the men behind." apnews.com/article/arct...

AI solving math problems that humans have struggled to solve. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Spraying crops with drones not as easy as it sounds. Maybe this is a case where an AI controlled drone would be an advantage. www.producer.com/crops/u-s-dr...

**Interrupter Alert** All grades of gas ⛽ will drop 6.2 cents tonight. Tomorrow’s regular will be 1.897, Midgrade will be 1.982, premium will be 2.068 - there will be no change to diesel. It remains 2.279

Welcome to participants of the Miramichi Striper Cup. Here is to a safe weekend on the water and tight lines. Thanks to City of Miramichi staff, Jeff Wilson, sponsors and volunteers for making it happen. For those visiting, please enjoy our community and its many offerings.

'But many on the political left criticized Kirk for making inflammatory and offensive comments that often further divided people' 'many on the political left'? Ok, CTV, what do you mean by that? Do you mean the decent people? www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Statistics Canada staggering rollout of four-day onsite mandate due to lack of office space

This is...breathtakingly xenophobic. "NIH officials are telling grantees...to remove papers that name co-authors affiliated with foreign institutions if NIH had not previously approved a foreign component for the grant." www.science.org/content/arti...

Wondering what the odds are at this stage that the two leaders facing off in Alberta’s next provincial election will be Naheed Nenshi and Jeff Rath?