Unpublished Newswire

If “[e]very media era gets the fabulists it deserves,” as Nicholas Hune-Brown writes, then such fabulists, if they’re lucky, get the profiles they merit. Nick’s feature about the strange, sad case of “Victoria Goldiee”—a phantom writer whose spree of bylines, in publications ranging from the Guardian to Architectural Digest, have all the watermarks of chatbot prose—is the must-read piece of this closing year. With 2025 bringing flirty AI companions and lawsuits against AI giants and a looming AI bubble, his tale about the ease with which synthetic voices can now pass for human hits with...

Across Canada, thousands of kilometres of major roads do not have reliable cellphone service. Roughly 15,000 kilometres – or 13.4 per cent – of Canada’s major roads have no mobile service, according to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. However, four provinces consider that figure an undercount, and it also does not include thousands of kilometres of gaps on secondary roads.