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Morning Update

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Start your day with context and insight on the biggest stories shaping our lives, written by Danielle Groen

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Latest editions of the Morning Update

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Morning Update: Timelines and time changes
Early birds have always carried a halo - but what if listening to your internal clock is actually the superior way?
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Morning Update: The scramble to get out of the Gulf
Many flights were cancelled at Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport yesterday.
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Morning Update: The important unknowns of war
A person stands on the roof of a building looking at a plume of smoke rises after a strike on the Iranian capital Tehran, on March 3.
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Morning Update: Trump’s mixed messages on Iran
Smoke rises after an explosion in Tehran yesterday.
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Morning Update: What happened in Iran
Smoke plumes rise following missile strikes in Tehran on March 1.
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Morning Update: Europe’s reckoning on the Epstein files
British newspapers, featuring coverage of the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, younger brother of Britain's King Charles, on suspicion of misconduct in public office, sit on display in a newsagent in London, Britain, February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Jack Taylor
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Morning Update: Corporate America wants its money back
FedEx would like a refund for its tariff payouts.
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Morning Update: How a manosphere meme went mainstream
Screen captures from Clavicular's social media feed.
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Morning Update: Ukraine marks a grim anniversary
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Morning Update: AI concerns in Tumbler Ridge
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Morning Update: The state of dating in Canada
Many single Canadians struggle with finding love on dating apps and seek real-life alternatives.
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Morning Update: Carney poaches another Conservative MP
Matt Jeneroux and Mark Carney shake on it yesterday.
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Morning Update: Trump gives Greenland a tourism boost
A tourist gets up close to a marooned iceberg in Nuuk last week.
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Morning Update: Negotiation tactics
Mexico's Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard and Canada's Minister responsible for Canada–U.S. Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy, Dominic LeBlanc, applaud as a signed memorandum of understanding between Mexico and Canada is shown while they attend the kickoff of the Team Canada Trade Mission to Mexico at a hotel in Mexico City, Mexico, February 16, 2026. REUTERS/Henry Romero TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Morning Update: Together, in mourning
Residents hug as they place flowers at a memorial for the victims of a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Feb. 12, 2026.
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Morning Update: Devastation in Tumbler Ridge
A makeshift memorial near the site of the mass shooting.
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Morning Update: Cuba loses its Canadian tourists
The long line for a gas station near Havana last week.
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Morning Update: The dangerous rise of Dr. ChatGPT
Getting medical advice from a chatbot can risk landing you in the ER.
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Morning Update: PM Carney tests waters for an early election
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives on Parliament Hill.
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Morning Update: A guide to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games
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Morning Update: A test of judicial independence in Alberta
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Morning Update: NASA’s moon mission hits a snag
Grounded in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Morning Update: Canada’s $1-billion bet on the World Cup
Vancouver's BC Place will host seven World Cup games this summer.
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Morning Update: Pierre Poilievre is so back
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, alongside his wife Anaida, and children, Cruz and Valentina, waves to the crowd following the keynote address at the national convention for Canada's official opposition Conservative Party, in the wake of its April 2025 election loss, on the day party members vote on the future of his leadership, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada January 30, 2026. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier
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Morning Update: Canada’s weighty problem
Eva Zhu administers her Ozempic injection into her abdomen at her home in Toronto on Nov. 11, 2025.
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Morning Update: Pierre Poilievre’s moment of truth
Pierre Poilievre on Parliament Hill this week.
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Morning Update: China’s military purge shows no one is safe
Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing last month.
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Morning Update: Grocery prices are making Canadians miserable
Mark Carney at an Ottawa grocery store yesterday.
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Morning Update: Protest and political PR in Minneapolis
A mourner visits a makeshift memorial in the area where Alex Pretti was shot dead a day earlier by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 25, 2026. On January 24, federal agents shot dead US citizen Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, while scuffling with him on an icy roadway, less than three weeks after an immigration officer shot and killed Renee Good, also 37, in her car. His killing sparked new protests and impassioned demands by local leaders for the Trump administration to end its operation in the city. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)
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Morning Update: A growing bond with Beijing
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the beginning of a cabinet retreat at the Citadelle in Quebec City on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Morning Update: Trump 2.0 is a boon for gold
These bars are a hot commodity.
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Morning Update: Canada’s middle-power conundrum
Mark Carney at Davos yesterday.
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Morning Update: Europe braces for a Greenland showdown
Greenlandic flags outside a shop in Nuuk yesterday.
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Morning Update: Greenland becomes ground zero
The Danish Navy's HDMS Vaedderen ship sails off Nuuk, Greenland, January 18, 2026. Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS
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Morning Update: One year in, Trump has changed the world
US President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan. 13, 2026.
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Morning Update: The hidden costs of parenting
Carleton University assistant professor Oriane Couchoux says motherhood changes how women think about money. Her children can be seen behind her playing in her home in Blainville, Quebec. Jan. 10, 2026.