
Good morning. The United States struck a trade deal with the European Union, as Canadians look ahead to the Aug. 1 deadline set for our own tariff agreement. More on that below, plus updates from Gaza and the rescue from a B.C. mine collapse. Let’s get to it.TOP STORY
July 28, 2025 - 06:37 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
I n early 2023, Rocco Casagrande, a scientist and former United Nations weapons inspector, brought a small container to the White House for a briefing with American government officials. It was filled with a dozen easily available chemical ingredients that Anthropic’s flagship chatbot, Claude, recommended as precursors to trigger another pandemic. Casagrande’s stunt confirmed that anyone with an internet connection can now conceivably create their own weapon of mass destruction.
“It is clear that biological technology, now boosted by artificial intelligence, has made it simpler than ever...
July 28, 2025 - 06:30 | Kyle Hiebert | Walrus
Two people, including a child, died in separate drownings in Ontario on Saturday, as one expert warns that July often sees the highest number of drownings in Canadian water.
July 28, 2025 - 06:15 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Two people, including a child, died in separate drownings in Ontario on Saturday, as one expert warns that July often sees the highest number of drownings in Canadian water.
July 28, 2025 - 06:15 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
In the summer of 1991, Janice Randhile was coerced by her boyfriend into the sex trade on the streets of Ottawa when she was just 17 years old.“We had been dating, we were in a relationship, and then he said, ‘I want you to go to work,’” Ms. Randhile, a member of Alberta’s Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, recalled in an interview. “I was like, ‘What?’ I wasn’t homeless, but I didn’t want to go home. So I did it.” At the time, Ms. Randhile was living with her boyfriend in a rooming house, grappling with fear of abandonment and struggling to find her identity. She is among the Indigenous...
July 28, 2025 - 06:00 | Kathryn Blaze Baum | The Globe and Mail
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July 28, 2025 - 04:00 | Alex Robinson | Ottawa Citizen