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As a deadline for Canada and the United States to reach a trade deal approaches, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is remaining silent on both tariffs and a request to restock American alcohol at provincial liquor stores. Under Ford, Ontario was the first province to remove American booze from circulation in retaliation for tariffs from United States President Donald Trump in March 2025.Since removing alcohol from the LCBO more than a year ago, Ford has been a fiery advocate for the booze ban, arguing it has been effective retaliation against the American tariffs.He has repeatedly said the LCBO won’t put American…

LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, “over a million people” have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post.LinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram determined that 41 percent of LinkedIn’s longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated, which 404 Media reported on. Alongside the AI slop button, LinkedIn introduced “new and improved” classifiers to identify posts as…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ethereum based Pepeto leads the crypto news again this week for one simple reason: the last stage of its Binance listing work keeps moving just as the Ethereum price prediction climbs to $10,000. Money keeps entering round after round, the wallet count doubles in one month, and CoinMarketCap runs a live preview page for it, a step saved for tokens near a Tier-1 debut. Ethereum just caught fire under this launch, and that prediction is its map. First, the numbers behind a $10,000 Ethereum price prediction, then Pepeto, and why…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The investigation into an aircraft’s emergency landing on a Prince George road on Thursday afternoon continues. RCMP in Prince George, B.C., said the Transportation Safety Board has taken over the case.They said a Beech King Air 200 airplane, registration C-GEDV, departed the Sturdee Airstrip in north-central B.C. at 1:25 p.m. PT with two crew members and six passengers on board.The flight was destined for Prince George’s airport.Investigators said that while en route, the aircraft lost power on one engine and was forced to make an emergency landing on Foothills Boulevard.The aircraft collided…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pepeto’s full DeFi toolkit is close to getting live, in the loudest crypto news week of the year: a $150,000 Bitcoin price prediction sits on the table, and the Bitcoin price just tore through $76,000. One memory stings every trader, the coin seen early and skipped. For millions that coin is Dogecoin at $0.002, when $1,000 became $365,000. The same setup is running again, faster. Each Pepeto stage fills quicker than the one before, the community keeps beating projects that spend ten times more, and the buying wallets look familiar,…

Founder & CEO Aishwarya Shares Company Milestones, Vision for the Future and Plans to Establish Offices Across Canada, Dubai and EuropeHOUSTON, Aug. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Negative Link, a global online reputation management and ORM company, today announced the next phase of its growth strategy, including plans to expand its international presence with new offices across Canada, Dubai and key European markets. Founded by Aishwarya, Negative Link has spent the past decade helping individuals, professionals, entrepreneurs and organizations address damaging, misleading and unwanted online content while building stronger and more credible digital reputations. Building a Reputation Management Company for a…

A nine-month-old polar bear is quarantining at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg after he was found orphaned in northern Manitoba. The unnamed polar bear cub arrived in Winnipeg late Thursday evening, the Assiniboine Park Zoo said on social media. He was transported via plane, accompanied by zoo veterinarians who assessed his medical needs earlier that day in Churchill, Man.“The bear is doing very well,” Chris Enright, the senior director of zoological operations at the Assiniboine Park Conservancy, told Global News in an interview Friday.Enright said the cub appears to be healthy but is still being monitored closely by zoo staff.“We found…

Jurors on Thursday heard Duane “Keffe D” Davis tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson fired the shots that killed rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996. Davis, who claimed he was also in the car with his nephew, is accused of orchestrating the killing of the 25-year-old rapper in Las Vegas.At the time of the interview with detectives in Los Angeles County, Davis’s nephew had been dead for a decade.Davis, 63, alleged that the white Cadillac he and Anderson were in with two other men pulled up alongside a car with Shakur inside, along with Death Row…

Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include “largely shutting down” a Vision Pro gaming team and “reducing the size” of the team that makes Vision Pro immersive content, the publication says. More than 200 jobs were cut.Apple said in a statement to Bloomberg it was making the changes to “to evolve our business to deliver the best experiences for our users,” though it will be making new roles. The company didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from The Verge.The Vision Pro launched in early 2024 as…

Nature Communications study reports an off-the-shelf bioengineered coronary conduit that remained patent for 18 months after anticoagulation was withdrawn, advancing a ready-to-use alternative for the hundreds of thousands of patients who undergo coronary bypass each year CABG Vascudyne Image Man having heart attack, shows CABG treatment ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vascudyne, Inc. today announced the publication in Nature Communications of results supporting an off-the-shelf bioengineered blood vessel for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)—an option that does not currently exist commercially and that could free a procedure performed on hundreds of thousands of patients each year…