On Tuesday a Harvard artificial-intelligence researcher, Keyon Vafa, published a short tweet-thread about a new paper looking at how some types of high-performing intelligence algorithms are behaving under the hood. If you’re interested in the implications of AI progress, this paper is instructive even if you don’t fully understand it, and, yes, that is tantamount to a confession on my part. (And, as the old joke goes, if you’re not interested in the implications of AI progress, rest assured that AI progress is interested in you.) Read More

In "The Art of War," the Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." By imposing tariffs on Canada's non-American trade partners, Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking that advice one step further — becoming the enemy he was elected to confront. Read More

The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner has released the full details of Mark Carney’s asset disclosures, and they reveal a prime minister who appears to be more constrained by conflicts of interest than any other. Read More

Supply management (SM) is a complex set of government policies that restricts production, marketing, and trade of dairy and poultry in Canada. At its core, SM is a textbook cartel in which producers collude to fix production at the national level, and set prices charged to processors who make the consumer food products sold in restaurants and grocery stores. Such collusion is illegal in other industries — food and elsewhere — but is mandated in SM through government policies. Read More

Two weeks ago, a Montreal woman was viciously attacked by her stepson’s previously amiable pit bull, losing two litres of blood from some 20 lacerations on both arms. Heavily bandaged victim Melanie Chartrand, marvelling that she survived, told TVA News (in French), “She was chewing my arm and she liked it,” adding, “These are dogs that were designed for fighting. I have the impression that it can happen to anyone, at any time.” Chartrand is right on both counts. Read More

The Blue Jays may be one of the hottest teams in Major League Baseball, but Toronto is quickly becoming its hottest city. Literally. Read More

EDMONTON — A serial romance fraudster who faked brain cancer and used other schemes to bilk Alberta women out of thousands of dollars is fighting a court ruling to keep him in prison indefinitely. Read More

TORONTO — A 14-year-old boy is suspected of fatally stabbing a senior in a Toronto parking lot as she loaded groceries into her car, police said Friday. The teen is still at large and considered dangerous, police said. Read More

Social media has been abuzz since Wednesday night with images and speculation about two co-workers who were caught on Coldplay's "kiss cam" during a concert by the group. Another woman at the concert recorded the event and uploaded it to her TikTok account, where it has since racked up more than 58 million views. Read More

Buenos Aires — Hundreds of Argentines gathered Friday to commemorate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centre that killed dozens, demanding justice for a crime for which there has not yet been a trial. Read More

OTTAWA — The top administrator in Jasper, Alta., downplayed claims Friday that a report his town commissioned into last summer's devastating wildfire was about blaming the province for making things worse, after the premier called on the town to apologize. Read More

It gets harder by the week to distinguish Canada’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionism from … well, protectionism, as opposed to something more sophisticated, calculated or intelligent. I argued recently that there’s no good reason for BC Ferries to pay over the odds for new vessels if a Chinese shipyard can build them on time and for the best price — but of course I understand the unique sensitivities around China, just as I do those around the United States. Read More

Included in the Trump administration's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was recently enacted, is a provision about some travellers having to pay $250, a so-called "visa integrity fee," to enter the country. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has picked a Quebec political heavyweight who joined the Senate less than a year ago to become his representative in the upper chamber. Read More

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Canada is struggling with the effects of an unprecedented immigration boom: Housing shortages, youth unemployment, overtaxed social programs and more. Read More

British Columbia's Health Minister Josie Osborne says she has reinstated funding for a nine-year-old girl who has an extremely rare disease. Read More

Seoul (AFP) -- North Korea has barred foreigners from a newly opened beach resort, the country's tourism administration said this week, just days after Russia's top diplomat visited the area. Read More

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TORONTO -- A woman in her 70s was killed in what seemed to be an unprovoked stabbing as she was loading her groceries in a Toronto parking lot, police said Thursday. Read More

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is urging workers to reject Canada Post's latest contract offer. Read More

Donald Trump, 79, has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency after he was examined for swelling in his lower legs, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. Although the swelling was "mild," the condition caused blood to pool in the U.S. president's legs. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Sour Cherries and Sunflowers by Sydney, Australia-based cook, author and former MasterChef contestant Anastasia Zolotarev. Read More

CALGARY — “I want to salute the horse,” said Sgt. Major Scott Williamson, riding master of the RCMP Musical Ride at the Calgary Stampede this year. “No horse, no Stampede. No horse, no RCMP. No horse, no Western Canada as it is," he said. Read More