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Trudeau speaks with Trump following assassination attempt on former president

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Trudeau speaks with Trump following assassination attempt on former president

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with former U.S. president Donald Trump on Sunday, a day after the Republican candidate survived an assassination attempt. According to a summary of the call provided by the Prime Minister’s Office, “Trudeau condemned yesterday’s appalling assassination attempt and reiterated there’s no place for political violence.” Trudeau also wished Trump well and expressed his … Read more

Fitness guru Richard Simmons dead at 76, U.S. media outlets report

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Fitness guru Richard Simmons dead at 76, U.S. media outlets report

Fitness guru Richard Simmons has died at the age of 76, multiple media outlets reported, including ABC News and TMZ. The reports said his housekeeper found him unresponsive on Saturday morning and Los Angeles police were called. TMZ reported that police were treating it as a natural death. Los Angeles police and fire departments told … Read more

Trudeau says co-operation coming with Modi, but short on specifics

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Trudeau says co-operation coming with Modi, but short on specifics

India and Canada will co-operate on a range of important issues, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said after speaking to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at the G7 summit. But Trudeau would not specify what those issues are, or whether he raised the allegations about the Indian government’s involvement in the killing of Canadian Sikh activist … Read more

Woman who says Baby Reindeer character was based on her sues Netflix

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Woman who says Baby Reindeer character was based on her sues Netflix

A woman who says she is the inspiration for the relentless stalker at the centre of Netflix’s Baby Reindeer sued the streaming giant on Thursday for defamation and is seeking at least $170 million US in damages. Fiona Harvey, a Scottish attorney living in England who says the character Martha on the widely viewed limited series is … Read more

See a goofy-looking bird on the ground? It’s likely a baby and it’s fine, experts say

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See a goofy-looking bird on the ground? It’s likely a baby and it’s fine, experts say

It’s fledgling season, a time when animal rescue experts say they are inundated with calls about goofy-looking birds stumbling around on the ground. In eastern Newfoundland, Karen Gosse of the Rock Wildlife Rescue gets so many calls about baby crows that she posted a reminder on social media that the drunk-looking birds aren’t really in … Read more

Giant hornets are here — but they’re not the ones you might think

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Giant hornets are here — but they’re not the ones you might think

Christine Moses was playing Scrabble with her husband in their Ottawa home this spring when she looked outside the window and shrieked. “I just saw this gigantic beast crawling up the window,” Moses said. After taking a picture of the giant insect, Moses asked her husband to eliminate the intruder with a fly swatter. She then posted … Read more

Harassment of MPs spiked almost 800% in 5 years, says House sergeant-at-arms

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Harassment of MPs spiked almost 800% in 5 years, says House sergeant-at-arms

The harassment members of Parliament experience from the public has jumped almost 800 per cent in the last five years, according to the person in charge of security in the House of Commons. Patrick McDonell, sergeant-at-arms and corporate security officer, told a committee of MPs studying the House harassment policy Tuesday that the spike was driven by … Read more

Is that Her? OpenAI halting ChatGPT voice after some say it sounds like Scarlett Johansson

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Is that Her? OpenAI halting ChatGPT voice after some say it sounds like Scarlett Johansson

OpenAI says it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after some users said it sounded like Scarlett Johansson, who famously voiced a fictional, and at the time futuristic, AI assistant in the 2013 film Her. In a post on the social media platform X Monday, OpenAI said it is “working … Read more

‘They were pretty much everywhere’: This Cambridge couple pulled over a dozen ticks off their dog

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‘They were pretty much everywhere’: This Cambridge couple pulled over a dozen ticks off their dog

Hike up your socks and check your pets — tick season is already in full force. Rob and Kathy Bull of Cambridge, Ont., are warning others to check themselves and their pets. After the couple took their four-year-old Jack Russell terrior, Roxy, for a short walk through Dumfries Conservation area, they had to pick about 20 ticks … Read more