Unpublished Newswire

Four people gather around a desk surrounded by stars and darkness. There is eerie music playing. One of the men in the group wants to spread a virus that would eradicate an entire population of robots. Another says: “Genocide? So that’s what we’re about now?” I was hooked. I was eleven, and the show was Battlestar Galactica, which depicts how ­ machines called Cylons, who look like humans and were created by humans, destroyed most of human civilization. I began tuning in each week and was soon renting past episodes from the library or Blockbuster (this was 2006). When I had watched them...

Good morning. The new federal budget offers a leaner public service, a louder military and a much bigger deficit – more on that below, along with Montreal’s transit strike and People’s Sexiest Man Alive. But first:Today’s headlinesZohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral raceIn Syria, the race to rebuild from civil war frustrates efforts to unearth the truthConservative MP Chris d’Entremont crosses the floor to the Liberals