Canada's Showbiz Steps Outside Hollywood's Shadow
Spend some time with our behind-the-scenes from the Canadian Screen Awards that captures a new, US-rupture-induced, Heated-Rivalry-propelled assertiveness in Canadian showbiz
Brilliant photos by @cburstnytimes.com/2026/06/13/world…
Victor Wembanyama’s agent says Wemby has turned down millions of dollars and will never endorse soda companies
"They all want him, but Victor will never sell soda. Because he doesn’t want to kill the kids."
(Via @JaredWeissNBA, h/t @TheNBABase)
"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. "
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Asked about the FOI changes, Ford defends the need to keep his cell phone records private.
Then he adds: “We’ve got to protect ourselves against the Communist Chinese that are infiltrating our country, Canada, the US, everything.”
NEW: A classified report by the National Intelligence Council, representing the collective wisdom of America's 18 intelligence agencies, found that even a large-scale assault on Iran would be unlikely to oust its entrenched military and clerical establishment 🧵
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.
The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: pewresearch.org/religion/202…
ALT Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.
Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, says that "most, if not all, professional tasks" undertaken by white collar workers will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."