As Chair of the Special Olympics Golf Tournament, which takes place on June 21st, I'm asking individuals and businesses if they’re able to purchase a $1,500 Tee Sponsorship (which includes your signage on a hole and is 100% business expense deductible). In addition,...

B.C.’s human rights commissioner has written Dr. Bonnie Henry, suggesting it was too soon to lift the province’s mask mandate. “Lifting the mask mandate will do disproportionate harm to those who are already marginalized, forcing many to withdraw from activities of...

Frank Stronach, founder of one of Canada’s largest global companies, says the country is “fairly close” to a public debt crisis and Canadians need to force politicians to rein in spending. The Magna International Inc founder was speaking on BNN Bloomberg Wednesday...

The Alberta government is temporarily ending the collection of its 13-cent-a-litre gas tax as of April 1 in an attempt to help Albertans dealing with increasing fuel costs. Premier Jason Kenney announced Monday that the fuel tax, which covers both gasoline and diesel,...

Kremlin officials told the Russian outlet Agency they didn't know Putin was going to invade Ukraine. Sources said the Kremlin prepared for smaller sanctions over its recognition of Luhansk and Donetsk. "Everything is fucked," a source close to Putin's administration...

The past couple of weeks have given Canadians an opportunity to follow an international story that is not related to the COVID-19 pandemic or to political theatre in the United States. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, has compelled Canadians...

Russia have been kicked out of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar by FIFA after the world governing body and the European association, UEFA, issued a joint statement to confirm that all Russian national teams and clubs have been suspended until further notice following the...

The modern state of Ukraine was formed nearly 30 years ago after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, the country has often made headlines due to political instability and the looming threat of a Russian invasion. In the map graphic above, we examine...

This week, the West has pushed out a coordinated effort to punish Russia following its move into separatist territories in Ukraine. Moscow is now vowing a “strong” and “well-calibrated” response to the West’s actions. Ukraine took a series of steps on February 23 to...

On Monday night, Russia formally recognized the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, a move that sparked stark reactions around the region. The Caucasus has a large concentration of post-Soviet breakaway states and Russia has already recognized some of them such as...

Joe Rogan said he's not leaving for Spotify for Rumble and its looser content moderation rules. The site, favored by the right, offered him $100 million to leave the streamer. After a standup set Wednesday, Rogen said "Spotify has hung in with me, inexplicably." Joe...

Since soon after the start of the pandemic, hospitals and public health authorities have refused to acknowledge the important distinction between patients being hospitalized with COVID and those being hospitalized (or those who eventually succumbed) because of COVID....

Dr. Anthony Fauci was told in a secret teleconference that the coronavirus had very likely leaked from a laboratory in China, yet still pushed the alternate narrative that it had originated naturally, new evidence allegedly shows. Redacted emails that were recently...

In early 2021 Amber Vittoria, a New York-based graphic designer and digital artist, first heard about nonfungible tokens (NFTs), or digital art tokenized on blockchain networks. She was smitten and by February she and her husband spent $33,331, the money they’d been...

Health reform has been talked about enough. The need to reform Canada’s health-care systems has long been a hot topic of debate. After all, Canada is an easy target. It has one of the highest price tags among countries with universal health systems in the Organization...

Restrictions including COVID-19 passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home requirements will be removed in England, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday. Johnson also suggested that self-isolation rules may also be thrown out at the end of March as...

Athletes from multiple countries—including Canada—were urged to leave their cell phones and laptops at home due to high risks for cyber spying at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. The Olympic Committees for the United States, Netherlands, Great Britain, Australia and...

The City of Vancouver sure can throw some curveballs at times. To paraphrase the late comedian Henny Youngman: Take the new paper cup and bag fees. . . please. In the throes of a pandemic, with public health orders confusing even the Mensa members and inflation...

Even at the best of times, it’s human nature to want to decode the future. During times of uncertainty though, we’re even more eager to predict what’s to come. To satisfy this demand, thousands of prognosticators share their views publicly as one year closes and...

Facebook has restored access to an advertising account linked to the conservative children’s book publisher Heroes of Liberty — after the lockout sparked an outcry on social media. Heroes of Liberty, which has published biographies of figures such as Supreme Court...

The Omicron coronavirus variant might be less severe in humans because it attacks human lung cells in a different way, according to two laboratory studies published recently. A group of 31 scientists from different universities collaborated on the project for the...

Criminals have stolen close to $100 billion in pandemic relief funds, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday. The stolen funds were diverted by fraudsters from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program, the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and...

Gas restrictions at some B.C. pumps due to expire by the end of Tuesday will not be extended. The province began restricting non-essential vehicles in southwestern B.C. to 30 litres of gas per visit to stations last month after severe flooding choked supply chains and...

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has relocated his restaurant headquarters from California to Texas, Dallas Morning News reported. Ramsay has hired a team of businessmen and chefs to expand his restaurant brand across North America, the outlet reported. It added that the...

An Italian man thought he had an ace up his sleeve to circumvent his country’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates — but was busted when he showed up for his shot wearing a fake arm, according to a report. The creative anti-vaxxer may have paid hundreds of euros for the...

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In March, Beeple sold a digital collection of his art as an NFT for a record $69 million. Now, the buyer wants everyone to have a free copy. The buyer, Vignesh Sundaresan, who's also known as MetaKovan, told Bloomberg he'd be happy if everyone downloaded a copy of the...

University of Oxford Professor Jim Naismith asserts that despite England dropping its mask mandate in July and Scotland keeping its rules in force, official data shows this “has made no meaningful difference” to infection rates. Naismith goes on to argue that new face...

The new German government has cited crypto in its coalition agreement, advocating for an equal playing field between traditional finance and “innovative business models.” Three German political parties agreed to a coalition deal this week that will see left-leaning...

Bonnie Robinson is adamant about getting a mammogram every year. With a history of breast cancer in her family, the 73-year-old from Kemptville, Ont. understands the importance of getting her regular screens so any abnormalities are caught early, before becoming...

Going the way of hand sanitizer, toilet paper and gasoline, Christmas trees have become harder to find and a more expensive product during the COVID pandemic. But the reason it’s now difficult to find an affordable family tree is more complicated than a simple rush of...

It is encouraging to see that the Conservative party has announced its shadow cabinet, as the party is in dire need of revitalization. Its election campaign was feeble and void of the slightest daring. It presented no core contrast with the Liberals and did not...

German security services believe that a man found dead in a street outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin last month was an undercover agent of Russia's FSB intelligence service, Der Spiegel reported on Friday. The body of the 35-year-old man was found early on Oct. 19...

Two Ontario sisters have been awarded $100,000 in a defamation suit against an activist who started a social media campaign against them, alleging a Snapchat video they made mocked the murder of George Floyd. The sisters, Shania and Justine Lavallee, were both fired...

Canada’s new environment minister will be a former Greenpeace activist who was once arrested for scaling Toronto’s CN Tower during a 2001 protest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday. In a news release naming his new cabinet, Mr Trudeau named Steven...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Monday announced it wants to launch a space station that will house up to 10 people in the second half of the decade, as the race to commercialize the cosmos heats up. "Orbital Reef," described in a press statement as a mixed-use business...

Canucks players will likely be hearing more cheers from the crowd at Rogers Arena than previously expected when the puck drops for the NHL team’s home-opener next week. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Tuesday B.C. would return to 100% capacity at...

What P&G Said about Soaring Costs, Supply Chain Woes, Inflation, and Trying to Keep Shelves Stocked Procter & Gamble [PG], which makes a broad range of consumer and health-care products, released its quarterly earnings today. Let me give you the short form: Sales up...

A news report released by CBC Edmonton on how an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) operates which featured a mannequin and was later used for other stories aired on the channel was not filmed inside an ICU and is not evidence that the pandemic is a “scam” despite claims made...

Microsoft announced Thursday it will shut down its local version of LinkedIn in China as the country continues to expand its censorship of the internet. LinkedIn was the last major U.S. social network still operating in China, which has some of the strictest...

Tesla is moving its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk announced at the company’s shareholder meeting on Thursday. The meeting took place at Tesla’s vehicle assembly plant under construction outside of Austin on a property that...

The City of Vancouver’s incessant guerilla assault on car and truck owners has taken on many shapes over the years. But 2022 offers the prospect of an inflection point, from a period of annoyance to one of absurdity. A proposal before the city’s council this week...

The best quick-buck scheme of the year isn’t GameStop stock, cryptocurrency, or reselling next-gen consoles. It’s...Pokémon Oreos? Oreos emblazoned with designs of Mew, the psychic-type feline Pokémon, are currently selling for hundreds if not thousands of dollars on...

Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes. The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor...

The British government is said to be considering whether to call in soldiers to deliver fuel to petrol stations as pumps ran dry after days of panic buying. Emergency measures were triggered on Sunday evening, with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng choosing to suspend...

The U.S. will ease travel restrictions for international visitors who are vaccinated against Covid-19 in November, including those from the U.K. and EU, the White House said Monday. Noncitizens visiting the United States will have to show proof of vaccination and a...

Tech giants are increasingly making up more of the Fortune 500, but the world’s biggest companies by market cap aren’t so cut and dry. Despite accounting for the largest market caps worldwide—with trillion-dollar companies like Apple and contenders including Tencent...

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, facing a COVID-19 crisis that is threatening to collapse its health system in just over a week, has reintroduced limits on gatherings along with elements of a vaccine passport system. Alberta is also asking for help from other provinces...

Chinese biopharma firm Everest Medicines Ltd. will license an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine from Canada’s Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc., as companies try to bring the most effective inoculation platform into China despite its apparent resistance to western shots....

Amazon is in talks to acquire the rights for the National Football League’s “Sunday Ticket” package and is seen as the front-runner by others involved in talks with the league, according to people familiar with the matter. Amazon has a serious interest in the...

That’s how Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong described the SEC’s latest crypto crackdown. According to Coinbase, the Wall Street regulator has sent the crypto exchange a “Wells notice” regarding its upcoming lending product, Lend. Wells notice = a threat to take legal...