canada

1 day ago

This 20-year-old lotto winner refused $1M in cash and chose $1,000/week for life. Now she's getting slammed for it

Would you rather be a millionaire or have safe, reliable passive income for life? That’s the difficult choice that many lucky lottery winners are frequently faced with. While the prospect of a seven-figure payout is tempting, 20-year-old Brenda Aubin-Vega from Quebec, Canada recently decided to take the recurring payment option instead.
Thanks to Jeff Bezos, you can now become a landlord for as little as $100 — and no, you don't have to deal with tenants or fix freezers. Here'

GreatAmerica

16 days ago

It was all smiles at Washington DC's Kennedy Centre as the leaders of the US, Mexico and Canada took the stage for the 2026 World Cup draw, even as trade tensions simmered in the background.
For Donald Trump, the brief interaction marked his first meeting with Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum, who leads the largest trading partner for the US.
While Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has already met with Trump several times, trade talks have been halted.
Trump this week signalled a willingness to leave in place a long-standing free trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico.
The agreement

todayusa

17 days ago

A triple whammy polar vortex is coming. Will your state feel the chill?

The polar vortex is on the move and will take up a position near Hudson Bay, Canada, directing rounds of Arctic air southward from the North Pole to parts of the central and eastern United States through the middle of the month. The waves of Arctic air will trigger rounds of flurries and squalls in some areas and may help fuel storms with more widespread snow.
The Arctic air is expected to deliver subzero temperatures from the Dakotas and Minnesota to Iowa and Nebraska, and by far the lowest temperatures of the season

todayusa

20 days ago

Bomb cyclone to bring 1st widespread snow to parts of Northeast

A new, quick-hitting winter storm is piling onto travel woes and shoveling duties Monday in parts of the central US that were buried over the weekend, but its next chapter could be its most notable.
The storm will strengthen rapidly into a bomb cyclone as it tracks up the East Coast to Atlantic Canada and brings the first widespread snow and ice of the season to parts of the Northeast Tuesday.
A bomb cyclone is just a storm that strengthens rapidly as measured by its pressure dropping by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours. Tha

Athletic

1 month ago

WPBL draft: Kelsie Whitmore goes No. 1; Mo'Ne Davis to LA
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Kelsie Whitmore became the first 1-1 selection, while Mo'Ne Davis heard her name called just nine picks later as the Women's Pro Baseball League's inaugural draft populated four teams in advance of its 2026 debut season.
The Nov. 20 player selection reveal illustrated just how much the game has thrived globally.
Five countries – the USA, Canada, ***** an, South Korea and the Dominican Republic – were represented in the first nine picks, as Whitmore's selection by the San Francisco franchise was followed by Los Ang

science

1 month ago

When a wild wolf encounters a potential meal, its instinct is usually to pounce -- but researchers in western Canada have recorded at least one wolf taking a strikingly different approach.
The behavior captured on video in a remote part of British Columbia province shows a wolf completing multiple steps to retrieve a crab trap from deep water, sophisticated behavior researchers say marks "the first known potential tool use in wild wolves."
"I couldn't believe my eyes when we opened up that camera," said Kyle Artelle, an environmental biologist at the State University of New York.
The discov

science

1 month ago

More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found.
The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation by DeSmog and the Guardian.
One in four of the big agricult

GreatAmerica

1 month ago

Canada's parliament has narrowly approved Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget, allowing his minority Liberal government to avert an early election.
The fiscal plan, which raises Canada's deficit to a projected C$78 bn ($55.3 bn; £42.47 bn), was passed thanks to crucial support from opposition MPs, including Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Many opposition lawmakers have sharply criticised the fiscal plan - the second largest in history. The plan passed with 170 votes in favour and 168 against it.
Carney, who served as the former central banker for both Canada and the UK, has

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