Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o has admitted that before being cast as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the 2,800-year-old Greek classic The Odyssey, she had never even heard of the epic story, despite having graduated from Yale University.
I confess to never having heard of Lupita before this woke casting calamity.
This week, Liberal MP and former environment minister and ex-Greenpeace activist Steven Guilbeault proved he’s capable of protest that doesn’t involve scaling the CN tower or chaining himself to oil sands equipment.
The Quebec MP announced his forthcoming resignation from the House of Commons, days after the CBC broke the news that 14 Liberal MPs (whom the CBC won’t name — but undoubtedly includes Guilbeault) penned a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling him out for allegedly reneging on the party’s environmental commitments. The letter insists that “climate change is the greatest threat of our time,” which certainly sounds as though it was penned by Guilbeault.
Bill Gates’s employees have spent years carefully cultivating his image—down to keeping a custom-size mannequin to test his outfits for different days of the week.
A styling group stores troves of neutral tone crew and V-neck sweaters, button-down shirts, slacks and extra pairs of the Silver Lining Opticians “Carbon” glasses at an off-site building, current and former employees said. Once options are selected for public-facing engagements, employees usually send three options for approval by senior staff. The goal: to depict someone calm and approachable, like Mister Rogers.
In a Sunday morning letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an emergency parliamentary debate to address the state of Canada’s economy.
“You promised you would deliver the fastest-growing economy in the G7. You delivered the only recession in the G7,” wrote the Official Opposition leader.
On Friday, a report from Statistics Canada showed the country’s economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row — meeting the technical definition of a recession.
Over the past two decades, the New History of Capitalism has transformed debates about Western development by restoring slavery to the center of the story of modern economic growth. A burgeoning literature now contends that slavery was not simply a moral atrocity intertwined with capitalism but the essential engine that powered the rise of the Atlantic economy itself. According to this interpretation, slave labor generated the capital accumulation, commodity production, and financial sophistication that made the modern West rich. When British politician Kemi Badenoch publicly opposed this argument, critics accused her of minimizing slavery’s economic significance. Yet the central empirical difficulty with the enrichment thesis remains unresolved: if slavery is such a powerful generator of prosperity, why did societies organized around slavery remain poor for most of human history, despite slavery existing across nearly every major civilization?
Who’s leading the “remain” side in this divisive, near-existential referendum on separation for Alberta? And who’s leading the “leave” side, pushing for a future binding independence question?
These are simple questions. There are not simple answers.
If there’s one thing that unites the disparate sides of this debate, it’s that neither is organized by a single, top-down umbrella group.
Buckingham Palace was made aware of emails allegedly showing that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential information with a business contact six years ago, according to court documents.
A tranche of emails during the former prince’s time as a British trade envoy was sent to the Royal Household in 2020.
Old myths die hard in Ottawa and one of the hardest to kill is that the government of Justin Trudeau was on track to meet Canada’s climate change targets under his failed $200-billion-plus strategy, before Prime Minister Mark Carney blew them up.
The myth was on display at a social gathering last week of Trudeau’s now-departed environment ministers/climate change warriors – Steven Guilbeault, Catherine McKenna and Jonathan Wilkinson, along with the former PM himself – at the private Rideau Club near Parliament Hill, reported by CBC.
Clashes between football fans and police across France have led to more than 400 arrests following the victory of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in the Champions League final against Arsenal.
Thousands of officers were deployed to curb unrest that disrupted bus, train and rail services in the capital Paris.
Fireworks and flares were set off, while several police officers were injured in the fray. Police fired tear gas to disperse crowds in the city centre.
🇫🇷 Paris currently looks like a war zone. Again.
North African gangs are blocking the streets and destroying everything in sight following PSG winning the Champions League.
Total chaos. pic.twitter.com/pzRsF0iXX7
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) May 30, 2026
North African PSG fans burned, devastated and looted Paris. If you import third world you become third world. pic.twitter.com/auvt2Z9Hu0
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) May 31, 2026
Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, which passed the House of Commons this spring has been controversial because of widespread fears that its broad definitions of hate speech and intimidation threatened fundamental democratic rights. Almost everybody opposes incitement to group hatred but almost everybody also supports the widest definition of freedom of human conduct that does not lead to chaos or promote or defend sociopathic behaviour. Opponents of C-9 are particularly concerned at the removal from the Criminal Code’s protection of people acting in good faith in reciting religious texts that could be construed as incitements to hate, even if unintentionally.
A shadowy new partnership appears to have formed between two of the most powerful figures in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Yet in the West it has been almost entirely overlooked.
It is no secret that the mainstream coverage of the Iran war has lacked nuance. But nowhere has this been clearer than in efforts to understand the regime’s internal power structure following the elimination of supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
TORONTO — As Toronto voters prepare to head to the polls in October, they will do so against the backdrop of a city grappling with persistent affordability pressures, strained public services and aging infrastructure.
While Mayor Olivia Chow can point to improvements in some areas, including reductions in homicides and increased housing approvals, many residents continue to confront a city that feels increasingly expensive, congested and difficult to navigate.
The US, UK and Australia say they will develop underwater drone technology to protect undersea cables and boost defence, under their military alliance known as Aukus.
The uncrewed undersea vehicle (UUV) technology is expected to be ready by next year. While the project’s total cost was not stated, UK Defence Secretary John Healey said his nation would contribute £150m ($201m).
The announcement, made by the countries’ defence ministers at a security summit in Singapore, follows claims of slow progress in Aukus’s projects.
I bet Carney has something cooking with China!
While Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tries to maintain a balancing act between sovereigntists in Alberta and federalists, Prime Minister Mark Carney is walking a tightrope between factions within his own party that is no less precarious. The risk in trying to placate disparate views for too long is having a faction break away in discontent. Carney can only maintain equilibrium for so long before he finds himself forced to stand solidly on one side of his party or the other.
Dutch right-wing broadcaster Raisa Blommestijn has fiercely criticized the justice system after an appeals court sentenced her to 30 hours of community service for statements concerning migration.
