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Germany’s foreign minister visits Kyiv as Ukraine battles to hold off Russian offensive
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, second from left, speaks to Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko during official visit to a thermal power plant which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack in Ukraine, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Rising sea levels could severely disrupt crude oil shipments, erode energy security, think tank warns
FILE PHOTO: The Liberia-flagged tanker Peria is escorted by a Turkish coastal safety boat as it transits the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey January 21, 2024. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik/File Photo
Independent retailers, grocery alternatives see sales boost amid boycott of Loblaw-owned stores
Customers at the Loblaws grocery store at Leslie Street and Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto on May 16, 2024.
AI and 3-D printing are changing the fashion industry’s sizing standards
A pilot project at Toronto Metropolitan University has students designing body forms that challenge industry standards.
Hotels, travel advisors and younger generations lead push toward sustainable luxury
The Awasi Iguazú resort in Argentina is a carbon-neutral property, and guests can participate in conservation work during their stay.
There are a lot of North American small-caps and mid-caps to choose from and Mawer Investment’s Jeff Mo is a whiz at picking them
Jeff Mo poses for a portrait on April 18th, 2024, in the board room at Mawer's Investment firm in downtown Calgary. (Louis Oliver/The Globe and Mail)
Getting hip to the dangers of fractures in the elderly
André Picard
Global AI summit secures safety commitments from 16 companies
A screen shows an announcement of the AI Seoul Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. World leaders are expected to adopt a new agreement on artificial intelligence when they gather virtually Tuesday to discuss AI’s potential risks but also ways to promote its benefits and innovation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Europe sets potential benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2023.REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo
Two Canadian stocks are among a BofA analyst’s top picks in global mining
Teck Mining Company's zinc and lead smelting and refining complex is pictured in Trail, B.C., on November 26, 2012.
U.S. and Europe must respond jointly to China’s industrial overcapacity, Yellen says
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks to reporters, alongside Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, at the sidelines of IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings at the World Bank in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Macy’s lifts its annual profit forecast as new CEO’s revamp takes root
A pedestrian walks across the street from a Macy's store in San Francisco, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Three accused of Sikh activist’s murder face court in person, fourth attends by video
A person walks past signs of Hardeep Singh Nijjar at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, B.C. on Friday, May 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Canada’s inflation rate slowed to 2.7% in April, boosting bets for June rate cut
Statistics Canada is set to release its April consumer price index report this morning. Shoppers browse product outside a shop, in Toronto, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Lowe’s warns of margin pressure in second quarter on muted home improvement demand
FILE PHOTO: The Lowe's logo is seen in Westminster, Colorado May 16, 2011. Lowe's Cos reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results on a slow start to the spring selling season, prompting the world's second-largest home improvement chain to cut its forecast for the year. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)/File Photo
Trudeau touts democracy, freedom and trade ties in visit to Philadelphia
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in New York on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Trudeau is in Philadelphia today, on his first trip south of the border since his government launched a new "Team Canada" charm offensive in the United States. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Morning Update: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and three Hamas leaders
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to his Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem May 20, 2024 REUTERS/ Ronen Zvulun
The Garfield Movie is a fistful of rotten lasagna
Vic and Garfield in GARFIELD the movie Film still
Executive turnover, shuffling at top resource companies costing shareholders millions, review finds
President and CEO of Cenovus Alex Pourbaix addresses shareholders at the company's annual meeting in Calgary, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
Kingston’s student housing plans courting for controversy over impact on historic downtown
(05/01/2024) Kingston, ON - Kingston’s new GEO student housing. Students are moving into their new homes in which they’ll be living for the upcoming school year. Photograph by James Paddle-Grant
Transforming a brutalist building into a state-of-the-art medical school
The Toronto Metropolitan University Medical School, in Brampton, includes teaching space, offices, research facilities and an integrated primary care clinic. With plans to achieve LEED standards, the project aims to minimize energy and greenhouse gas emissions and integrate on-site renewable energy sources.
The battle for your brain
Podcast
Nita Farahany
A month after I was hired, my hourly pay was reduced. What recourse do I have?
Mourners begin days of funerals for Iran’s president, others killed in helicopter crash
People participate in a funeral procession alongside a lorry carrying the coffins of president Ebrahim Raisi and his seven aides in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, on May 21, 2024. Tens of thousands of Iranians gathered on May 21 to mourn Raisi and seven members of his entourage who were killed in a helicopter crash on a fog-shrouded mountainside in the northwest. (Photo by ATA DADASHI / FARS NEWS AGENCY / AFP) (Photo by ATA DADASHI/FARS NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)
Tuesday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades
Workers lay pipe during construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on farmland, in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.
Oil prices fall on sticky inflation, dampened geopolitical risk premium
A flare burns off methane and other hydrocarbons as oil pumpjacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. The federal Liberals will finally provide details on their long-promised oil and gas emissions cap today.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, David Goldman
UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city
Palestinians salvage items from the rubble of a family house that was hit overnight in Israeli bombardment in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah in southern Gaza on May 20, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. Israeli troops have moved in on the Gaza Strip's far-southern city of Rafah, which the army describes as the last Hamas stronghold and where the United States says 800,000 civilians have been newly displaced by the fighting. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
The Liberals’ legal retreat on climate
A Parliamentary committee has outlined ways it wants the federal government to prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence on the Canadian labour force. The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, March 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Ebrahim Raisi’s death will not usher in change to the Islamic Republic
TOPSHOT - Rescue team members work at the crash site of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan, in northwestern Iran, on May 20, 2024. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead on May 20 after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain region, sparking mourning in the Islamic republic. (Photo by AZIN HAGHIGHI / MOJ News Agency / AFP) (Photo by AZIN HAGHIGHI/MOJ News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)
How’s your ‘flow state?’ Combined with technology it might reverse productivity slumps
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David Cronenberg lets death become him with fiercely alive thriller The Shrouds
(From L) French actor Vincent Cassel, Canadian director David Cronenberg and German actress Diane Kruger arrive for the screening of the film "The Shrouds" at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 20, 2024. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
House Speaker Greg Fergus accused of using ‘very partisan’ language about Pierre Poilievre in ad promoting coming event
House of Commons speaker Greg Fergus pays tribute to the late prime minister Brian Mulroney in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, March 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
The close: S&P 500 and TSX squeak out record highs after Fed comments
The Art Deco facade of the original Toronto Stock Exchange building is seen on Bay Street in Toronto in January of 2019.
Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan a front-runner for new chief of defence staff, sources say
Lieutenant-General Jennie Carignan arrives the the Prime Minister's office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Before the Bell: What every Canadian investor needs to know today
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on May 17, 2024 in New York City. Wall Street stocks opened little changed May 17 after pulling back from a record run where the Dow exceeded 40,000 points for the first time. Around 10 minutes into trading the Dow Jones Industrial Average was steady at 39,872.66. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Top Canadian bank earnings expected to report slower growth in second quarter, analysts say
Pedestrians on Front St. West walking past hoarding with the familiar green TD logo outside a future bank branch in Toronto’s Financial District, are photographed on Mar 4, 2024. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
U.S. stock settlement switch faces early resilience test
An entrance to the New York Stock Exchange is shown on May 8.
Subaru finds success with fun-to-drive, manual sports cars while they still can
The BRZ tS has the same 2.4-litre direct injection boxer engine that makes 228 horsepower.
Tuesday’s Insider Report: President invests over $3.8-million in this stock yielding 5.6%
A driver pulls into the truck delivery bay in Oshawa, Ont., Tuesday, September 25, 2007.
Cross-border tax experts see rise in activity as clients ponder effects of capital gains changes
Canadian and U.S. flags fly atop the Peace Arch monument at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Republicans on Capitol Hill have formed a new caucus to focus on immigration, crime and national security at the Canada-U.S. border. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Nine reasons Canadians may owe a tax balance this year
Worried elderly couple argue about their bills and receipts sitting at home with laptop. Frustrated senior husband and wife having problems with finances or struggling with paying the bills online
‘How far can we go with beating up on the rich before they move away or, even worse, just move their money?’ More income tax, plus other letters to the editor for May 21
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and cabinet ministers pose for a photo before the tabling of the federal budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Status of wildfire that threatened Fort McMurray changed to 'being held'
A wildfire that forced thousands of people to evacuate several Fort McMurray neighbourhoods last week is no longer classified as out-of-control. A firefighters monitors a pump in a river bed used for wildfire sprinklers in the evacuated neighbourhood of Grayling Terrace in Fort McMurray, Alta., Thursday, May 16, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Toronto FC expects spirited cup rematch with semi-pro CS Saint-Laurent
Vancouver Whitecaps look to finish off Cavalry FC, continue quest for cup three-peat
Vancouver Whitecaps FC midfielder Ryan Gauld, left, controls the ball as Cavalry FC midfielder Charlie Trafford chases him during second half soccer action in the Canadian Championship quarter-final, leg 1, in Calgary, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
When the 2024 NBA champion is crowned, a young star will likely lead the way
Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards gestures as time runs out in the second half of Game 7 of an NBA second-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets Sunday, May 19, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Power conferences, NCAA to vote on landmark US$2.7-billion settlement as smaller leagues balk at terms
FILE - In this April 25, 2018, file photo, the NCAA headquarters is shown in Indianapolis. University presidents around the country are scheduled to meet this week in May 2024, to vote on whether to accept a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that would cost the NCAA nearly $3 billion in damages. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
Caitlin Clark overcomes injury, but Tyasha Harris shines late to give Sun 88-84 win over winless Fever
Indiana Fever forward Aliyah Boston (7) drives on Connecticut Sun forward Olivia Nelson-Ododa (10) in the first half of a WNBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Oilers advance to Western Conference final with 3-2 win over Canucks
Edmonton Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner, back left, and his teammates celebrate as Vancouver Canucks' Dakota Joshua, front, looks on after Edmonton defeated Vancouver during Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup second-round playoff series, in Vancouver, on Monday, May 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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