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Israel’s ambassador to Canada is calling on authorities to protect Jewish institutions after two synagogues in the Toronto area were struck by gunfire overnight. “I am shocked and outraged by the shooting attacks that targeted Bayt Synagogue in Thornhill and Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue in North York, Toronto, last night,” Israeli Ambassador Iddo Moed said in a statement.“These cowardly assaults on houses of worship are abhorrent acts of violence that strike at the heart of our shared values — safety, dignity, and freedom of religion.”York Regional Police said officers responded at around 11:49 p.m. Friday to reports of shots fired near…

Walmart bought Vizio in 2024, and now it’s taking the next steps to formally fold the TV maker into itself by phasing out Vizio accounts. Now, when you purchase a new Vizio TV, you’ll be asked to sign in or create a Walmart account. Customers will have the option to merge their Vizio account, if they have one, with their Walmart account. Your only other option will be to simply delete it.According to an email sent by Vizio, customers who choose to delete their account will have 30 days to request a copy of any data related to the account,…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president apologized Saturday for attacks on regional countries even as its missiles and drones flew toward Gulf Arab states, indicating that Tehran’s political leadership could not exercise full command over Iran’s armed forces. He also rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated demands for surrender. President Masoud Pezeshkian, one member of a tripartite leadership council overseeing Iran since a Feb. 28 airstrike started the war and killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered the defiant message exactly one week into a conflict that has spread across the region, rattled global markets and air travel…

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 118, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, please take my Switch away so I can get some work done, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I’ve been reading about moon factories and railroad monopolies and backing into parking spots, finally digging into the Acquired podcast archives, taking tons of notes on Michael Pollan’s new book about consciousness, watching everything Look Mum No Computer has ever made, breaking my computer trying to get the Obsidian CLI to…

Canada is working to launch hundreds of new communication satellites that Prime Minister Mark Carney and experts say will be “fundamental” to sovereign defence capabilities and autonomy from the United States. During a speech to Australia’s parliament on Thursday, Carney highlighted a soon-to-launch, made-in-Canada low earth orbit (LEO) satellite network that could soon compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink in providing far-reaching internet services.That in turn will help with everything from military operations to natural disaster responses, experts say — particularly in the Arctic.“Satellite communications are now a fundamental requirement for security and strategic autonomy,” Carney said Thursday.“A Canadian-based constellation of LEO…

When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete.It hasn’t worked out that way. Automakers have struggled to bring purely electric two-seaters to market. The ones that managed to emerge have been flatly rejected by consumers. Porsche has walked back plans for an all-electric lineup of Boxster and Cayman models, seemingly spooked by technical hurdles and tepid response from its fanatical customers. Lamborghini last week scrapped plans for its first all-electric model, with the CEO saying the brand’s customers have almost “zero interest” in…

The mother of a 12-year-old girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., last month says her daughter’s breathing tube has been removed as doctors check to see whether she can breathe on her own. A post on the Facebook account belonging to Cia Edmonds, mother of Maya Gebala, says the removal was a “terrifying experience” and she held her daughter’s hand as the girl winced.But Edmonds writes in the post on Friday that her daughter was “doing great” and “looking more like her beautiful self.” Edmonds and Gebala’s father, David Gebala, have said their daughter was…

More than four years after her son’s death, Tracey Savage says the wait for justice continues. On Sept. 5, 2021, a young man was found critically injured on a field at Penticton Secondary School. He later died in hospital.Savage says the days before her son was identified were agonizing.“Each day he didn’t come home, you knew that the chances are it was your son.”Thirteen days later, the victim was identified as 22-year-old Taig Savage.In 2024, four people were charged with second-degree murder in connection with his death. Three of the accused were youths at the time of the alleged offence…

Nova Scotians are continuing to make their voices heard when it comes to frustrations over the provincial budget. People filled both the gallery and the overflow area at Province House on Friday, wearing all-black to stand in solidarity with both Black and Indigenous communities.The protest comes as many programs and community grants that benefit those communities are impacted by cuts in the provincial budget.Kay Macdonald, the program director at The Youth Project, told reporters, “the math ain’t mathing.”“People fought really hard for these programs to exist, particularly in an African Nova Scotian context. I know my community fought really hard…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A delegation from the Sunshine Coast travelled to Vancouver on Friday to put more pressure on the federal government to ease its restrictions on temporary foreign workers. Sunshine Coast mayors and residents met with Immigration Minister Lena Diab, urging the federal government to open up more spaces as they say that local businesses will suffer during peak tourist season and their hospital will face serious staff shortages.“Our main focus today was to emphasize the urgency,” District of Sechelt Mayor John Henderson said.“We stand to lose 300 temporary foreign workers and their families…