Can we call this TMXXL? reuters.com/business/energ…

If your argument for cutting rates is that the economy is at full employment, the only counter argument needed is to explain what the words "full" and "employment" mean.

BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report. nbcnews.com/business/econo…

April: we're going to prove the economists wrong May: tariffs are just leverage for negotiating deals June: changing the tariffs will get us better deals July: data proves economists were wrong about tariffs August: we need to fire the people who collect the data

Trump previously promoted a lie that BLS had been *planning* to delay the downward revision until post-election until a whistleblower leaked it; in fact, it was the annual, regularly scheduled August revision. Now he’s saying BLS *actually did* release the revision post-election.

Aid workers caring for the hungry in Gaza are themselves going without food. Claire Porter Robbins on a starvation crisis that has not spared the helpers: theatlantic.com/international/…

NEW: Doug Ford says the quiet part out loud.The Ontario premier is playing the bad cop to partner Mark Carney's good cop. As a subnational leader, Ford can get away with saying things the prime minister cannot. #onpoli #cdnpoli thestar.com/politics/provi…

New reporting from Semafor on what led to this statement

Prison consultant Sam Mangel on Ghislaine Maxwell being moved to a federal prison camp in Texas: “That is a very difficult move to accomplish under any circumstances.”

Don't think I've ever seen 4 deadline acquisitions combine to lose a single game in the way it just happened for the Yankees.

Alberta minister threatens to axe bike lanes. Can he make his case? Analysis by Jason Markusoff cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

It’s estimated Gaza had as much, likely more, explosives dropped on it as Dresden, Hamburg and London in WW2. Little wonder it looks like this. Not filmed with anything fancy, just an iPhone through a window. There’s no avoiding the scale of destruction. itv.com/news/2025-08-0…

Quite aside from this fact, the “your” in “This land is your land” quite explicitly encompasses the very people who DHS are setting out to deport

Danielle Smith’s talk of much cheaper auto insurance after Alberta reforms? It appears to have collided with reality. New by me: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Roy Whitney, the longtime chief of Tsuut'ina Nation, charged with two counts of sexual assault, allegedly against two different band members in 1994 and 2005. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Employment in Alberta fell by 17,000 (-0.6%) in July, partly offsetting an increase of 30,000 (+1.2%) in June. The unemployment rate in the province increased 1.0 percentage points to 7.8% in July. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quoti…

Trump appears impressed when he learns that Azerbaijan's authoritarian president, who inherited his job from his dad, has been in office for 22 years. "That means he's tough and smart."

“our two provinces”

This image, which claims to show European leaders waiting to meet President Trump at the White House today, is clearly AI-generated and fake. For a start, there are a couple of legs next to President Macron that are not linked to the rest of a body!