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Celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Carson’s “bold and inventive oeuvre.”A poet, essayist, classical scholar and translator, Carson is renowned as a master of esoterica whose body of work constitutes a genre unto itself.With a bibliography of more than 20 books of poetry, essays, plays, libretti and translations of ancient Greek texts, Carson has defied literary conventions with her signature synthesis of the antiquities and the avant-garde.She’s amassed a devoted readership and a raft of critical accolades, including two Griffin Poetry Prizes, a Governor…

Leading figures in the push for Alberta separation are celebrating the election of Quebec premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Jeffrey Rath said Tuesday that St-Pierre Plamondon’s election victory could change the political dynamic of Canada, especially since the premier-designate has already shown his willingness to support Alberta’s separatist movement.“For the first time in Canadian history, we have a government in Quebec that supports Alberta independence,” Rath said in an interview.St-Pierre Plamondon and the separatist Parti Québécois are set to form a minority government after Monday’s election in Quebec, which saw the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec wiped from the assembly.The premier-designate has…

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has designated a new West Coast pipeline project as being in the “national interest,” paving the way towards approval for a project to ship an additional one million barrels of crude oil daily to Asian markets. Carney made the announcement over the newly dubbed Pacific Link pipeline in Fort McMurray, Alta., Thursday flanked by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.“We have to do this, because the world is facing an energy crisis on three dimensions,” Carney said.“There’s an immediate challenge of affordability and in some countries the very availability of hydrocarbons, there is a structural challenge of…

By Simina Mistreanu and Jamey Keaten The Associated Press Posted October 8, 2026 8:46 am 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size China has nominated health official Song Li to lead the World Health Organization, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Thursday, as Beijing seeks to expand its presence in international governing bodies. The World Health Assembly is set to elect the next WHO head in May. That person will succeed Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is finishing his second five-year term and is barred from running again under WHO rules.“China’s nomination of Dr. Song Li to…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Robert Kelker-Kelly, known for his roles on Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and Another World, died Saturday in Missouri at the age of 62. The St. Peters Police Department told Variety and Deadline that they responded to a report of an unconscious male who was not breathing.Police said that he had reportedly complained of chest pain shortly before becoming unresponsive and the circumstances appeared consistent with a medical event, according to the outlets.Authorities reportedly attempted life-saving measures at the scene but they were unsuccessful, TMZ reports. Kelker-Kelly was best known for playing Bo Brady…

TORONTO – When Kawhi Leonard returned to the Toronto Raptors, expectations around the team grew exponentially. Suddenly a deep post-season run was in reach. But for all-star Scottie Barnes, expectations within the organization have remained the same over his five seasons in Toronto.“Every meeting that we’ve had, starting off with (former team president Masai Ujiri) when he was here was win-win-win,” said Barnes at the Raptors’ media availabilities on Monday. “I think that’s always going to be our expectation to win, but our goal is to win a championship.”Barnes averaged 18.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game last…

Of all the things Alexa Plus can do, I never expected it to make me cry. Since my son left for college, the Echo Show in my office has been making then-and-now photo montages: the toddler with his first tennis racket next to the captain of his varsity team; me hugging him as a tween beside me hugging him as a young man. I’ve teared up more than once. But then comes the ad, a full-screen photo of a hideous brown leather recliner. I go from nostalgic joy to irritation in an instant.That pretty much sums up my year with…

It was supposed to be a joyful family reunion, but instead a British Columbia grandmother is stranded in China in a coma, her family unable to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring her home via air ambulance. Her family says Lilia Avoutova, 78, who is of mixed Chinese and Ukrainian heritage, arrived in Kunming on March 4.But she and her 79-year-old husband, Savout, both from Burnaby, B.C., never made it to Avoutova’s birthplace of Xinjiang, an autonomous territory in northwest China, after she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and stroke two days later.Daughter Elena Lanteigne said her mother…

New high-resolution magnetic model strengthens geological targeting across and beyond Arikepay’s historically drilled gold-copper envelopVANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Precore Gold Corp. (CSE: PRCG) (the “Company” or “Precore Gold”) is pleased to report results from the high-resolution drone magnetic survey (“MagDrone”) that was recently completed (see press release dated September 16, 2026) at its flagship, the Arikepay Gold-Copper Project (“Arikepay” or the “Project”), located in southern Peru. MagDrone Highlights Firstly, the 3D magnetic susceptibility model shows a high susceptibility response over the previously interpreted 400 m wide x 3 km long gold bearing envelope, hosted in…

Partnership brings professional-grade, browser-native video editing to millions of Chromebook users, with a UK test market expected to launch in October 2026 elevate.io Powerful, intuitive video editing – all in your browser. elevate.io joins Google’s Chromebook perks elevate.io will be featured in Google’s Chromebook perks programme. LONDON, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Blackbird plc (AIM: BIRD), the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud-native video editing and publishing platform, Blackbird, and the browser-based collaborative video editor, elevate.io, is pleased to announce that elevate.io will be featured in Google’s Chromebook Perks program. Chromebook Perks offers Chromebook owners exclusive benefits from…