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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Camp Courage, a Nova Scotia camp that encourages young women and gender-diverse youth to explore careers in firefighting and other emergency services, is marking 20 years. Founder and executive director, Andréa Speranza, says more than 36 per cent of participants go on to work in emergency services.And many, she says, stay in the industry.“They have (at the camp) … an entire family behind them, so they have a lot more support, and I think sometimes even if you just have somebody you can ask questions to and somebody that can mentor you,…

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees that now work for the AI company have stolen Apple’s trade secrets “for the benefit of OpenAI.” In its complaint, Apple alleges that it has uncovered “a pattern of theft of Apple’s trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple,” and it names IO Products (Jony Ive’s hardware startup that OpenAI bought in 2025), Tang Tan (OpenAI’s chief hardware officer), and Chang Liu (who joined OpenAI from Apple in January) as defendants.At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough technologies to create the best products and services in the world,…

Ontario lost thousands of jobs in June, but can still boast positive job creation for the past three months after a particularly strong performance in early spring. New figures released by Statistics Canada revealed Ontario lost 16,700 jobs in the past month, keeping its unemployment rate steady and above the national average.They come after gains of more than 84,000 in April and May.Ontario NDP MPP Catherine Fife said the latest data showed the Ford government was failing to deliver on the economy.“Our province’s workforce is shrinking at an alarming rate. This Premier and his Conservative government are simply not creating…

TORONTO – A Toronto-based legal expert says he was surprised by the latest twist in the Toronto Raptors-Los Angeles Clippers trade saga. The Raptors and Clippers announced in separate statements on Thursday that a proposed trade that would bring all-star forward Kawhi Leonard back to Toronto has been put on hold following the outcome of an investigation by the NBA into Leonard’s 2024 contract with L.A. Both statements said that the Raptors would assume the risk of any potential penalties that come out of the investigation.Russell Sanders, a partner at Aird and Berlis, said he was taken aback by the…

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one — instead, it’s offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot program for a new “distributed AI compute” program that will “place numerous compute nodes in homes equipped with Sunrun solar and battery storage systems.” Customers will be “compensated” for participating in the pilot program.Sunrun plans to sell the distributed compute power from the nodes to “enterprise compute buyers,” like AI companies. It’s a new approach to finding resources and space for…

The City of Ottawa says it deliberately chose not to notify residents before setting off a surprise fireworks display Thursday night, citing concerns that publicizing the event could have created “public safety risks.” The fireworks were originally scheduled for Canada Day but were cancelled due to severe weather.The roughly 12-minute display was instead set off around 10:53 p.m. Thursday over LeBreton Flats as part of Ottawa Bluesfest, setting off the unused fireworks from July 1.Videos of the unexpected display quickly spread across social media, with many residents questioning why there had been no advance warning for the late-night display. Get daily…

A completed bridge linking Detroit and Canada is expected to open by the end of the month after U.S. and Canadian officials reached an agreement to resolve the dispute that delayed its debut, according to two people directly involved in the negotiations. The sources were not authorized to publicly disclose the deal before a formal announcement.A ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for early June was postponed after the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority said the two countries needed more time to resolve “outstanding issues.” The delay followed President Donald Trump’s earlier threats to block the bridge’s opening.Commercial traffic is now expected to begin before Aug. 1,…

NEW YORK, July 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At the end of the settlement date of June 30, 2026, short interest in 3,804 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 18,453,725,441 shares compared with 17,903,270,409 shares in 3,764 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 15, 2026. The June short interest represents 2.45 days compared with 2.79 days for the prior reporting period. Short interest in 1,657 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 4,227,522,108 shares at the end of the settlement date of June 30, 2026, compared with 4,045,966,221 shares in 1,659 securities for the previous reporting…

Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn’t want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you “shouldn’t have it in your feed” if you don’t like it. “I don’t think we should filter out AI content,” Mosseri said during an interview on Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast. “I think we should let you know if content is AI content or not.”At the same time, Mosseri seems to be drawing a distinction between content-based sorting and banning AI from the platform entirely. In fact, he believes people who love AI content “should be able to have a feed that’s just…

Lima, Peru, July 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lima will host The World’s 50 Best Restaurants on November 4 for the first time, marking the event’s first-ever edition in South America. Peru will make culinary history in November 2026 when Lima hosts The World’s 50 Best Restaurants for the first time. It will also mark the first time the prestigious awards ceremony is held in South America, bringing together the global restaurant community in one of the world’s most exciting food capitals. The announcement comes at a defining moment for Peruvian gastronomy. In 2025, Maido was named The World’s Best…