87 m. ago $190M Raised: Canada’s Top 20 Moonshot Ventures™ of 2025 Unveiled After Closed

Canada’s most promising early-stage companies officially unveiled today following a closed-door showcase at the NACO Summit, with ventures spanning AI, cleantech, healthtech, and space. OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) today unveiled Canada’s Top 20 Moonshot Ventures™ of 2025—emerging companies led by bold entrepreneurs building transformative solutions […]

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4 h. ago OPINION: All student voices deserve to be respected and heard on campus

The York Federation of Students claims to represent all students, while only advocating for pro-Hamas students, guest columnist writes

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4 h. ago Man pleads guilty to criminal negligence in dog attack that injured girl: York police

Police say the girl and her father had visited the man's home in Newmarket, Ont., on July 27, 2023 to view puppies for sale.

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4 h. ago New York prison guard says he cleaned up blood of fatally beaten inmate

UTICA, N.Y. — A New York corrections officer admitted in court Wednesday he cleaned up blood from the fatal beating of an inmate that was captured on bodycam videos in an attempt to conceal evidence. Nicholas Gentile pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempted tampering with physical evidence in the Dec. 9 beating of […]

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5 h. ago As WNBA popularity soars, player salaries remain a big hurdle for the league to address

Breanna Stewart will start her ninth WNBA season in a few days. The New York Liberty All-Star and WNBA champ has been around the league long enough to watch her peers fight for visibility. She’s seen only a small uptick in player salaries over the years amid the WNBA’s meteoric rise in popularity. Stewart has […]

Economics

5 h. ago TerraForm Power Operating First Quarter 2025 Results Webcast and Conference Call

Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025Time: 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) NEW YORK, May 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — You are invited to participate in TerraForm Power Operating, LLC’s First Quarter 2025 Results Webcast and Conference Call on May 20, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) to discuss results and current business initiatives with senior management. These […]

Culture

6 h. ago Cassie details hotel hallway beating at Sean ’Diddy’ Combs’ trial

NEW YORK — The R&B singer Cassie returned to the witness stand Wednesday in ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial, describing a vicious attack by Combs that was caught on surveillance video at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. The infamous video shows Combs hitting, kicking and attempting to drag Cassie back to their […]

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6 h. ago ‘She was waiting for the bus’: Quebec woman dies after being hit by falling tree branch

Canadian legal experts point out that generally speaking, property owners are responsible for falling trees and branches. But not every case in the same.

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7 h. ago Creative Visionary Nicola Formichetti Named Global Creative Director, M·A·C Cosmetics

Formichetti’s bold vision and trendsetting approach to creativity mark a new era for the iconic beauty brand NEW YORK — The Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) and M·A·C Cosmetics announced today the appointment of Nicola Formichetti as Global Creative Director, effective May 19, 2025. A celebrated creative director, designer, and cultural icon, Formichetti brings his visionary […]

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7 h. ago All of Toronto's Planta locations could soon close as chain files for bankruptcy

It might just be the end for Planta, David Lee's made-in-Toronto plant-based restaurant empire, as the chain filed for bankruptcy.The 2016 lovechild between Toronto culinary icon, David Lee (then of Nota Bene fame) and CEO Steven Salm, Planta all began with an original location in Yorkville, before taking on major cities across North America over the near-decade that would follow.Locations in Florida, Atlanta, New York City, Los Angeles and D.C. all cropped up in short succession, on top of additional Toronto locations, including now-defunct experiments like Planta Cocina and Planta Burger and the still-bustling location on Queen.It would be an understatement to say that Lee and Salm caught a current with Planta that carried them all the way to the bank. It seemed that way, at least.According to a recent report from Reuters, it could quite possibly be the end of the Planta reign as we know it, as the Miami Beach-based company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protect...

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8 h. ago British banking analyst jailed 10 years in Saudi Arabia over ’unknown tweet’

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A British Bank of America analyst has been sentenced to a decade in a Saudi Arabian prison apparently over a since-deleted social media post, according to his lawyer. The family of Ahmed al-Doush, 41, believes the charges against him stemmed from a deleted 2018 tweet about Sudan that did not […]

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9 h. ago Selena Gomez fait sensation dans une chic robe noire pour assister au Disney Upfront à New York

Selena Gomez a fait sensation dans une chic robe noire, alors qu’elle assistait au Disney Upfront à New York.

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12 h. ago Court rules in favor of the New York Times over texts between an EU chief and a pharma boss

BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission was wrong to refuse the New York Times access to text messages sent between President Ursula von der Leyen and a pharmaceutical boss during the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. newspaper’s lawyers “succeeded in rebutting the presumption of non-existence and of non-possession […]

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15 h. ago British banking analyst sentenced to a decade in Saudi prison, apparently over a tweet

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A British Bank of America analyst has been sentenced to a decade in a Saudi Arabian prison apparently over a since-deleted social media post, according to his lawyer. The family of Ahmed al-Doush believes the charges against him stemmed from a deleted 2018 tweet about Sudan that did not […]

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17 h. ago 25 things to do in Toronto for the 2025 Victoria Day long weekend

Things to do in Toronto over the 2025 Victoria Day Long Weekend include partying it up at the first weekend of the summer-long Electric Island festival, visiting one of the most popular Asian night markets of the year or taking in a dazzling free fireworks show.The fun doesn't stop there, though.You can also catch hundreds of motorcycle riders dressed in their Sunday Best as the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride motors through town, keep up with the weirdest performances from across the pond at a Eurovision watch party or check out a food festival featuring exclusively Halal bites.For more ideas, check out our previous roundup for the week and be sure to head over to our events section for complete listings.Here's our roundup of things to do in Toronto this weekend.Events you might want to check out: Electric Island (May 17 - August 31 @ Fort York) Strap on your dancing shoes and head down to Fort York for the first installment of this beloved EDM music festival. BACKY...

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21 h. ago Jayson Tatum to miss remainder of playoffs after Achilles tendon surgery, imperiling Celtics’ repeat hopes

BOSTON — When Jayson Tatum toppled to the court, writhing in pain and grabbing at his right foot late in the Celtics’ Eastern Conference semifinals Game 4 loss to the New York Knicks, it looked like a potentially season-altering injury. Boston’s worst fears are now confirmed. Tatum had surgery Tuesday to repair a ruptured right […]

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22 h. ago Cleanfarms Celebrates 15 Years of Agricultural Sustainability Leadership

ETOBICOKE, Ontario, May 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cleanfarms marks its 15th anniversary as a global leader in agricultural waste management, having collected over 97,000,000 kg of agricultural waste materials from Canadian farms since programming began. Since inception, Cleanfarms, a Canadian not-for-profit industry stewardship organization has become a global leader in collecting, recycling, and safely […]

Politics

22 h. ago Family of Alberta highway crash victims asks people to drive safe as long weekend nears

The family of two people killed in a crash on a central Alberta highway last month are pleading with motorists to drive safely ahead of the long weekend.

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23 h. ago Lorne Gunter: Carney cabinet as radically ‘green’ as Trudeau's

The Parliamentary press gallery is all aglow over Mark Carney’s new cabinet. It’s so much smaller than Justin Trudeau’s last cabinet, they beam. And its full of so many rookies. Surely that proves Carney intends a clean break with the Trudeau past. Umm. How about ‘No.’ It’s true, there are “just” 28 ministers in Carney’s […]

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24 h. ago What to know about Cassie, the singer testifying against Sean ’Diddy’ Combs

NEW YORK — Casandra Ventura, the R&B singer and actor known simply as Cassie, began testifying Tuesday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial. The music mogul is charged with leveraging his status to coerce women — including Cassie — into abusive sexual encounters and using violence if they refused. He has pleaded not guilty. […]

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