AI has turned mathematics upside down.
On September 8, OpenAI announced a resolution of the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem — one of the most famous outstanding problems in mathematics. Navier–Stokes was difficult enough to be designated one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000, with each problem bearing a $1 million reward for a satisfactory answer.
h/t Mauser
What happened this week in the U.S. midterm elections was – as has been jubilantly reported wall-to-wall – historic, a blue tsunami, a firm rebuke of President Donald Trump. Bravo.
North of the border, on social media, radio call-in shows and the streets of this fair land, the relief, even joy, has been palpable. There is no other way to read the results than as a rejection of Mr. Trump, the President who targeted our country with his tariffs and his 51st state baloney.
November 7. Riots are still erupting in France’s major cities, the fourth weekend in a row, perhaps only slightly less destructive than before. On October 19, the government imposed a curfew in many cities, then sent in police and water cannons. More than 3,000 shops — including several supermarkets — have been looted or destroyed. Stores that survived had boarded up their doors and windows, transforming the centers of Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other cities into bleak, barren ghost towns.
France. Boarded-up shops in the middle of the city centre. H&M behind plywood. Homeless on the sidewalk. This is what they did to Europe. This is not progress. This is decline. https://t.co/775uRMXOyK
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) November 8, 2026
Canada has multimillion-dollar contracts with Palantir, a controversial U.S. software company. Experts warn the deals could expose Canadian military data to U.S. authorities and leave Canada reliant on critical technology supplied by a foreign company.
Documents obtained by the Investigative Journalism Foundation revealed that the Department of National Defence (DND) has had a contract for Palantir’s Gotham software since 2020 that was internally flagged as “not for public disclosure.” Initially valued at $14 million, it could be worth up to $63 million.
The risk apparently is its effectiveness in immigration and border control applications.
The leader of a Kenyan doomsday sect has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult disasters in recent history.
The sentence, comprising 100 years for murder by starvation and 100 years by direct homicide, came two weeks after the court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa found the cult leader guilty of the crimes.
Prosecutors said Paul Mackenzie and his Good News International church ran a Christian doomsday sect whose members were ordered to starve themselves and their children to death to go to heaven before the world ended.
Americans don’t want authoritarianism. They don’t want the economic mismanagement that comes with it. They don’t want the corruption. They don’t want their trade policy and their military run on the basis of the insane whims of a single man’s unquenchable vanity. They don’t want masked federal agents on the streets shooting their neighbours. They don’t want to be the victims of the tech lords’ oligarchic manipulations. The midterm results amounted to a radical repudiation of Donald Trump and all he represents. Trumpist candidates, all down the line, bought it. The American left will have a gleeful week. So what.
On Halloween night, a woman named Deryka Minor suffered a vicious assault at a Cincinnati nightclub. According to Minor’s attorney Clyde Bennett, 20-year-old Kameiro Blair-Martin, who worked at the nightclub as a barback and busser, assaulted his client.
Bennett says Blair-Martin punched Minor in the face at least 15 or 16 times, leaving her close to losing consciousness. As the beating continued, he allegedly reached toward his waistband in a manner that Minor interpreted as an attempt to draw a firearm.
Don’t look now but the OPP has decided to not charge a man for shooting to death two young men who allegedly invaded his home near Cornwall last year.
The bad guys know what this means. It means they don’t have the advantage anymore and can end up dead themselves. The message is loud and clear to home invaders: Enter at your own risk because the legal system is sticking up for victims now.
The rumors were rattling around the bowels of The Royals subreddits, and they sounded completely implausible. There wasn’t much evidence discussed, just a lot of pervy speculation. The half-brother of Meghan Markle, the onetime princess, who was demoted to duchess when she decided she didn’t want to work so hard, got in touch with her to break the news that their dad possessed pervy stuff pertaining to kids at his home in the Philippines.
For Abby Daniel, graduating from university was supposed to mark the beginning of her career. Instead, more than a year after completing her degree, she’s still trying to find a job in her field.
Daniel, who graduated from Ottawa-based Carleton University in 2025 with a degree in health sciences, expected to land work in public health, government or a health-care organization.
“When I graduated, I thought that … by now I’d have some sort of job that is linked to my actual undergrad degree,” she told National Post.
This is why we need mass immigration.
The international banker who is Canada’s Prime Minister has announced he will import 2.3 million extra migrants to reanimate an economy paralyzed by millions of prior migrants.
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne delivered this week’s budget in an environment that had suddenly become both more and less benign for Canada.
The government is right to set a goal of making Canadians “masters of our destiny.” Ottawa had a revenue windfall and chose to spend it largely on stimulus instead of paying down debt. The budget introduced tax cuts and measures to boost major infrastructure projects and private-sector investment.
This city has been racked by a vile campaign to target “Zionist” businesses. A group of lefty cyclists called Philly Bike on Your Left is urging locals to tour the city this weekend and intimidate owners, employees and patrons of prominent Jewish-owned restaurants. “Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are,” the Instagram announcement says. Other radical groups, such as Philly Writers Against the War on Gaza, have promoted it.
CFB Gagetown, which is Canada’s second-largest military facility, sprawls over 1,100 square kilometres.
It has ample room for approximately 6,500 troops and reserves, 1,000 civilian staff, and 10,000 soldiers, cadets, and police who head there to train annually.
But there’s no room for Jesus anymore in St. Luke’s Protestant chapel on the base.
Early one morning in June 2024, Bas pulled up next to his parents’ campervan, parked on a sunny marina in the north of the Netherlands.
His father and mother, Jan and Els, had spent most of their married life on water. Now in their 70s, they could no longer manage a houseboat. Their campervan, positioned close to the yachts and dinghies, was the next best thing.
Jan and Els got into their son’s car. Bas started the engine. This would be the final time he drove his parents anywhere. For Jan and Els, this journey – to the local hospice – would be their last.
