Anti-doping chiefs have said they will look into extraordinary claims that Olympic ski jumpers have injected acid into their penises to enhance performance.
While Witold Banka delivered his warning here in Milan, host of the Winter Games, on Thursday with a wry smile in response to one of the more unusual questions he has faced during his presidency at the World Anti-Doping Agency, there may be some legitimacy to the concerns.
Elon Musk’s pivot away from the electric vehicles that made him rich and famous raises a thorny question: Whither the EV market when its Atlas shrugs?
On Tesla Inc.’s quarterly earnings call last week, Mr. Musk said the company would stop production of its model S and X cars. Instead of retooling affected plants to build new models, the factory space will be converted to build humanoid robots.
MARIJAMPOLE, Lithuania—European governments are preparing for war with Russia. A newly released wargame suggests they aren’t ready.
A Russian incursion, or outright invasion, into countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union has become more likely because of Europe’s tensions with President Trump over Greenland, Ukraine, trade and other matters, many European security and political leaders say.
They point out that Russia has switched to a war economy, focusing national resources on a rearmament program and military recruitment that goes well beyond the needs of the campaign in Ukraine.
More than two-thirds of young Canadians are worried they will face greater challenges than their parents in accumulating savings for their retirement years, a new survey suggests.
But the survey also found more and more parents plan to help their adult children, even to the detriment of their own finances.
A report published this week by the Bank of Montreal (BMO) found that 73 percent of Millennials surveyed say retirement planning will be more difficult than it was for their parents, followed by Generation X at 67 percent, Generation Z at 61 percent and Boomers at 60 percent.
Police say seven current and one former Toronto cop have been linked to a criminal conspiracy which allegedly sought to murder an Ontario corrections officer.
York Regional Police revealed the results of Project South on Thursday morning alongside Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw.
💥NOW: Toronto Police released never-before-seen shootings by Indian gangs in the GTA with the help of corrupt police. pic.twitter.com/uKJGlACSyD
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) February 5, 2026
More … Toronto police officers accused of leaking information to ‘key’ organized crime figure after corruption probe
The face of an angel on a fresco in Italy that provoked outrage because of its resemblance to Giorgia Meloni has been scrubbed out by the artist who restored it.
The painting in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, a short walk from the Italian parliament, triggered a political and religious row last week when a restoration appeared to give the winged figure the features of the Italian prime minister.
Visitors noticed the likeness, prompting an investigation by Italy’s culture ministry and heritage officials.
Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta’s separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington’s possible intentions.
Some even see dangerous parallels between American efforts to inflame Alberta separatism and the Russian campaign to gin up a separatist movement in eastern Ukraine a decade ago.
Last week, an Alberta separatist group revealed that it was hosted at three meetings by the U.S. State Department.
Honestly as the true nature of the Carney ChiCom alliance is revealed annexation looks better and better.
Energy minister won’t rule out Chinese state-owned companies from buying majority stakes in Canada’s oil patch
An Afghan man accused of targeting and repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl has denied “circling the streets” to find her after she was allegedly strangled on a bridge.
Giving evidence for a second day at Warwick Crown Court, Ahmad Mulakhil said he did not have a sexual interest in the girl after she spoke to his friend, Mohammad Kabir, in Nuneaton in July.
The 23-year-old previously admitted oral rape but denied two other counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, child abduction and taking indecent images of a child.
NEW: A Chicago man and woman have been shot in their car with a baby in the back seat.
Three people were seen running up to the vehicle and firing at least two dozen shots. They then ran away & jumped into an Alfa Romeo.
Witnesses say they ran up to the car to find the baby,… pic.twitter.com/J0GEppngtx
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 4, 2026
York Region saw a 92% rise in shootings and 106% increase in carjackings.
Meanwhile York Regional Police: pic.twitter.com/vyzagtDYeD
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) June 4, 2025
On January 19, the federal government sent an industrial-scale email to nearly every one of Canada’s 2.3 million licenced firearm owners. It wasn’t a standard update. Instead, it was an invitation to a “maybe.” For the next ten weeks, owners are being asked to log into a portal and “declare” property that, in many cases, the government doesn’t even know they have.
They tested whether their dogs would save them.
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) February 3, 2026
When the King first tried to oust Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from his Windsor home, it began a two-year battle described by one source as “the siege of Royal Lodge”.
On Monday night, after a two-year stand-off between the brothers — not to mention a few carefully timed trebuchets thrown by palace courtiers — the duke finally left his £30 million, 31-room mansion.
Andrew, 65, was driven to Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate, where he will stay while his more permanent home, the nearby Marsh Farm, is prepared.
Disgraced Andrew evicted from Royal Lodge in midnight exile pic.twitter.com/hQhVQjtNh0
— The Sun (@TheSun) February 4, 2026
h/t Hermes
What happens when hundreds of mountain bikers start on a glacier at the same time.
This is the Mountain of Hell in France, and this crash was from 2019.pic.twitter.com/J2p8Nltfsc
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 4, 2026
Former prime minister Stephen Harper said late Wednesday that Canada must urgently pivot in the face of an erratic U.S. president and reduce its dependence on the American market to protect its sovereignty and the continued functioning of the economy.
Speaking at a gala in Ottawa to mark the 20 years since he formed a Conservative government, Harper said while he has “largely stayed silent” on U.S. aggression up until now, he feels compelled to speak out about what he described as an existential threat.
He said the U.S. has become “hostile” and its leader, President Donald Trump, is openly questioning Canadian sovereignty, launching threats and betraying trade deals, which poses a “serious challenge” that demands a muscular response.
I don’t know the Canada he’s asking us to defend and frankly we have much bigger problems than Trump.
