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Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour, fire-and-brimstone documentary Musk — on tech oligarch, worlds-richest-man Elon Musk — is not uplifting. Instead, it is one of the most depressing and terrifying pieces of public media since An Inconvenient Truth alerted a mostly unaware public to its imminent annihilation by climate change.

For more than 50 years, humanity has used "leap seconds" to keep our clocks aligned with the rotation of the Earth. On Thursday, an international time-keeping body in France is expected to do away with leap seconds and let the clocks slip until they're out of alignment by a full hour — meaning it could be centuries, or even millennia, before another tweak is needed.

Lindsay Mattick tells The National about the moment her great-grandfather, Canadian WWI vet, Lt. Harry Colebourn inspired A.A. Milne’s beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories — first published 100 years ago today.

The B.C. Lumber Trade Council says the new figure is down from the combined rate of 45 per cent announced in August last year.

A grand jury in Washington state has indicted an alleged co-conspirator in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shooting. The indictment of 30-year-old James Bryant for conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country means there is probable cause for prosecutors to pursue the case.

Misinformation has spread online about who is able to vote in the Alberta referendum. The CBC's fact-check team debunks claims about non-residents voting.

Real estate developer Sacha Singh tells a Toronto court he gave self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski more than $4.5 million to trade in foreign exchange and cryptocurrency. That’s more than any of the 11 investors who’ve been called so far as Crown witnesses at Pleterski’s fraud trial. Most say they never got any money back.

Ahead of the Alberta referendum, CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault connects with an undecided voter trying to navigate strong opinions and awkward conversations in the hamlet of Mirror, where pro-independence voices are loud and not everyone is comfortable speaking their minds.

The family of a man mauled to death by a tiger at a U.K. wildlife park on Saturday is pleading with people to stop sharing footage of the attack online, calling it "deeply offensive" and painful. The statement from the family of 23-year-old William Chapman came after U.S. President Donald Trump shared a clip of the fatal attack on his Truth Social platform Tuesday.

Last week, Ontario announced private career colleges would be temporarily barred from accessing student aid payments.

The proposal, which was quietly released online last week, calls for the expansion of the power to legally use radio "jammers" to 27 police forces beyond the RCMP.

Workers began removing the controversial Bloor Street bike lanes near Islington Wednesday morning, after protests the day before delayed their removal.

Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is suggesting Canada might be conducting 'election interference' ahead of his country's midterm votes in November.

The industry minister said Wednesday that the government is contemplating legal action against Stelco and its U.S. parent company Cleveland-Cliffs.

In a speech in Toronto, the premier conceded U.S. President Donald Trump's debilitating trade war against Canada is having an impact on the economy.

A next-door neighbour's testimony to Ontario's police watchdog provided new information to jurors probing the final moments before Korchinski-Paquet fell to her death during a police call to her apartment.

Police seized more than 2,700 rounds of ammunition, including approximately 2,500 allegedly stolen from the military, following the abduction of a cryptocurrency exchange owner.

As Toronto's condo crash deepens, QuietMarket lets individual buyers access discounted developer sales previously reserved for investment firms.

The Ontario NDP wants the government to nationalize the steelmaker to save local steel plant jobs.

The former Foreign Minister and current Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, speaking with Ottawa bureau chief Mercedes Stephenson at The Globe's defence summit, said the geopolitical instability the United States has created isn't going away any time soon, and both Democrats and Republicans agree on many of the current administration's isolationist policies.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada would never interfere in U.S. elections. Her comments came after U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said Canadians should keep their noses out of American politics during the congressional midterms.

Luciano Frattolin was sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 25 years, two months after a jury in Essex County Court convicted him of second degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in the death of Melina Frattolin.

U.S. federal authorities investigate potential fraud in Omar’s immigration paperwork

Judge extends access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico in press freedom dispute

Trump says ‘massive oil, gas and mineral exploration’ is set to begin in Greenland

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said it was a pity his country had experienced difficulties with ​Starlink services and intelligence, saying he had been surprised by developments in his partnership with the United States.

Eritrea, long isolated from the West, finds itself in a strategic spot because of the Iran war and the chaos it’s caused to global shipping

The ‘Normal People’ and ‘Conversations with Friends’ author has been a vocal supporter of Palestine Action

The spike marks the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year growth of visits to the U.S. by Canadian residents

The officials said the top three floors in a building used by top executives were damaged. One official said the office of the Aramco chief executive was among those hit.

A small dog that's been on the loose in Yellowstone National Park for a month has been spotted crossing intersections, strolling through employee housing and entering lodges.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced outrage Wednesday over Russia’s continuing aerial bombardment of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in apparent defiance of a ceasefire.

The 71-year-old Leo returned to his room after the surgery at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, according to a statement from the Vatican spokesman.

While authorities do not possess clear evidence on who was responsible for the drone attacks, “it makes no sense for Ukraine to destroy its own ships in the Black Sea."

Rising bond yields have been a warning sign for financial markets in recent months amid the Iran war's risk to global economies, and the IMF says those risks are more of a concern.

Gillis, who hosted SNL over the weekend, was fired from the sketch comedy show in 2019, five days after being cast as a regular for making racial slurs on a podcast.

Canada has joined more than two dozen other countries in denouncing Iran’s apparent involvement in a planned attack on an air base in England.

Chatbot platform Character.AI said on Monday it has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and has agreed to sell some assets for US$20 million to Walt Disney.

U.K. spy chief Ken McCallum’s warning comes as NATO’s commander in Europe issues stark language about defending against any military attack.

Katie Zacharia told The New York Times that the confusion over her legal credentials was the result of one big misunderstanding.

The collapse, in Peshawar, also killed a teacher and injured more than 40 people. The country’s prime minister urged rescuers to speed up the search for survivors.

Israeli voters have an opportunity to end the stranglehold the ultra-Orthodox have on some aspects of society.

A fiscal crisis threatens to bring the country to ruin.

The Vatican bureaucracy has been fine-tuned over hundreds of years to function smoothly even when the pope cannot.

Schools under scrutiny as Cornell is often follow a sort of public relations playbook, adding rules, hiring outside investigators and sometimes making leadership changes.

Art of Play, a novelty store in Brooklyn Heights, has found itself at the center of a social media maelstrom over a feud between the shop and the singer and TV personality Kelly Clarkson.

The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic.

In President Trump’s second term, those heading for the exits, voluntarily or involuntarily, are female officials.

"Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS," Musk wrote.

A sell-off in global technology hardware stocks deepened Thursday.

TSMC reported its third-quarter earnings on Thursday.

The U.K. is grappling with a cost-of-living crisis sparked by sticky inflation and surging energy costs.

Jio Platforms, the company at the center of Musk’s remarks, is launching an IPO later this month.

The Indian government has been divesting its stake in several state-owned companies this year as it tries to keep its growth engine running amid deepening fiscal pressures.

Hungary, a small country in central Europe, has played a major part in the movie business since the late 19th century.

Oil fell Thursday, as traders assessed attacks on ships passing through Hormuz, while digesting the International Energy Agency's latest monthly report.

Anthropic reports third-quarter stands at $16.8 billion ahead of its IPO.

Jio's share sale will be India's largest ever in rupee terms, and second largest in dollar terms, trailing the Hyundai Motors IPO that raised $3.3 billion in 2024.

The uptick helped the economy grow by 0.7% over the three months to August, official figures show.

The home secretary said she would not hesitate to impose measures on other countries "refusing to co-operate".

Senior figures in European football tell BBC Sport they want former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger to run as a surprise candidate against Gianni Infantino.

China is the North's largest trading partner and a lifeline against the sanctions Pyongyang faces.

How an F1 pit stop inspired changes to hospital care that have helped save lives ever since.

Former England manager Gareth Southgate says he does not see himself returning to club management in the Premier League.

Jeffrey Donaldson was convicted of 18 counts of sex abuse, including one of rape, which he committed against two women when they were children.

Caroline Bailey was diagnosed after suffering with "a stabbing pain in the middle of my abdomen".

BBC Verify has identified 254 incidents from the past three years the Israeli military said it is reviewing after being accused of harm.

Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions".

The building has suffered severe damage, the fire service said

Zelensky spoke of his frustration with Trump in an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are no longer working royals but consider themselves to be ‘public figures’

Former child actor William Chapman’s family said he had suffered from ‘significant mental illness over a number of years’ and was ‘prescribed strong medication’

‘The name of the channel is 'Talking Pigeons'. Doesn't that suggest to you that the pigeon would speak?’

The Father Ted co-creator received a settlement over his arrest at Heathrow Airport

Another beat of economists’ forecasts of a contraction for the month

Dozens of people have marched in Bangkok, seeking to draw the attention of world financial leaders to poverty, pollution and other grievances during a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank

The retailer said total sales fell by around 3% in the first six weeks of its new financial year largely because of the ‘exceptionally warm weather’.

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall sought a $4.2 million earmark to resolve a water rights dispute in Kansas in 2024