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Wrath of Man	1	-	$8.31M
Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train	2	1	$39.33M
Mortal Kombat	3	2	$37.88M
Godzilla vs. Kong	4	3	$93.02M
Raya and the Last Dragon	5	5	$43.87M
Separation	6	4	$3.36M
Here Today	7	-	$1.04M
Nobody	8	6	$24.61M
The Unholy	9	7	$14.16M
Tom & Jerry	10	9	$44.77M
Four Good Days	11	10	$626,582
The Croods: A New Age	12	12	$57.81M
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles	13	11	$2.96M

billboard top rock

1	twentyonepilots:Shy Away
2	twentyonepilots:ShyAway
3	ImagineDragons:FollowYou
4	AllTimeLowFeaturingb:Monsters
5	FooFighters:WaitingOnAWar
6	MachineGunKellyXblac:MyEx'sBestFriend
7	TheOffspring:LetTheBadTimesRoll
8	Weezer:AllMyFavoriteSongs
9	AJR:WayLessSad
10	Seether:BruisedAndBloodied
11	RiseAgainst:NowhereGeneration
12	TheKidLAROI:WithoutYou
13	ThePrettyRecklessFea:AndSoItWent
14	KennyHooplaXTravisBa:Estella
15	BillieEilish:ThereforeIAm
16	girlinred:Serotonin
17	BlackPumas:Colors
18	AllTimeLow:OnceInALifetime
19	PopEvil:BreatheAgain
20	Coldplay:HigherPower
21	AyronJones:Mercy
22	GretaVanFleet:HeatAbove
23	BringMeTheHorizon:Teardrops
24	KingsOfLeon:TheBandit
25	NessaBarrettFeaturin:LaDiDie

slashdot

-	Michigan GOP Lawmaker Floats Bill To Register and Fine 'Fact Checkers'
-	South Korea Unveils $450 Billion Push for Global Chipmaking Crown
-	Hacker Group Behind Colonial Pipeline Attack Claims It Has Three New Victims
-	GTA 5 Graphics Are Now Being Boosted By Advanced AI At Intel
-	First Fully Civilian Flight To Space Station Moves Forward With NASA Contract

sportsnet

-	Stripling starts as Blue Jays look to sweep Braves on Sportsnet
-	Maple Leafs’ Andersen feeling confident despite loss in return from injury
-	Oilers continue to check off boxes as regular season comes to an end
-	How Yuta Watanabe earned his NBA shot and why this is just the beginning
-	Canadiens happy to put regular season to rest, recharge for playoffs

ctv

-	PM Trudeau cleared, but Morneau broke ethics law over WE Charity contract: Dion
-	Public asked to shelter in place as RCMP respond to shots fired near Centennial Park in Moncton, N.B.
-	'Protect the king': Why Ontario Premier Doug Ford has taken the back seat
-	UCP caucus chair quits, calls for removal of Premier Kenney
-	Can't smell or taste after COVID-19? 'Olfactory training' could help

cnet

-	One state is giving 5 people who get COVID-19 vaccine $1 million each
-	Gas shortage 2021? When service will restart from hacked Colonial Pipeline
-	E3 2021 gets own online portal and app for virtual event
-	Roku original shows to start streaming May 20 free with ads
-	Best Father's Day gifts for every kind of foodie dad

reuters

-	Colonial Pipeline slowly restarts as Southeast U.S. scrambles for fuel - Reuters
-	Bill to ban TikTok on U.S. government devices passes committee - Reuters
-	U.S. sends envoy as Israel-Gaza barrages spiral, Hamas commander killed - Reuters
-	U.S. Senate panel approves tech bill to address China - Reuters
-	Musk decries bitcoin's 'insane' energy use after Tesla payment U-turn - Reuters

cbc

-	Quebec seeks to change Canadian Constitution, make sweeping changes to language laws with new bill
-	Domestic flights continued from COVID-19 hot spots as cases surged
-	Alberta's oil producers feel recovery — but analysts aren't predicting a repeat of the last boom
-	Federal compensation not ready yet for vaccine injuries, deaths
-	'Nothing can break me': Bus crash survivor to hit the trail for Ottawa Race Weekend

space

-	Seeing Ingenuity Mars helicopter fly in 3D
-	Scientists invent method for predicting solar radio flux for two years ahead
-	Image: OSIRIS-REx bids farewell to Asteroid Bennu
-	Space telescope's golden mirror wings open one last time on Earth
-	Scientists catch exciting magnetic waves in action in the Sun's photosphere

science daily

-	Academic skills least valued when assessing the 'ideal student' by academics and peers
-	Researchers identify target for senolytic drugs
-	New ebolavirus vaccine design seeks to drive stronger antibody defense
-	Study reveals structure of key receptors involved in memory and learning
-	Bears that mark more trees may be more successful in mating

new scientist

-	Ultra-tiny nanomachines are redefining how we think of robots
-	Scientists finally find life on Mars (or actually they haven’t)
-	Is everything predetermined? Why physicists are reviving a taboo idea
-	Isotope study hints ancient Greeks used foreign fighters in key battle
-	Covid-19 news: Pandemic should drive global health reform, says report

Thu May 13

Mainly sunny
high: 22 c

Fri May 14

Sunny
high: 24 c

Sat May 15

Chance of showers
high: 21 c
pop: 40%

Sun May 16

Sunny
high: 22 c

Mon May 17

Sunny
high: 22 c

Stocks

TSX	19,107.77	-166.27 -0.86%
S&P	4,115.42	+52.38 +1.29%
DOW	34,046.34	+458.68 +1.37%
NASDAQ	13,147.44	+145.81 +1.12%
GOOG	2,259.56	+20.48 +0.91%
IBM	143.58	+2.19 +1.55%
CSCO	52.42	+0.81 +1.58%
INTC	53.72	+0.10 +0.19%
AAPL	125.41	+2.64 +2.15%
CIEN	50.06	+0.54 +1.09%
NXP	186.63	+3.85 +2.11%
QCOM	127.15	+2.53 +2.03%
TESLA	582.25	-7.64 -1.30%
AMZN	3,160.97	+9.03 +0.29%
NFLX	487.09	+2.10 +0.43%
XLNX	116.49	-0.38 -0.33%

Word of the Day

exhilarate

verb (ig-ZIL-uh-rayt)

: to make (someone) very happy and excited or elated

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." - Helen Keller

science blog

-	Urban traffic noise causes song learning deficits in birds
-	Composing thoughts: mental handwriting produces brain activity that can be turned into text
-	In hot pursuit: On reaching an infrastructure deal, let’s get this done
-	Petting therapy dogs enhances thinking skills of stressed college students

Born on this day

- Wojciech Żywny, Polish pianist, composer, and Chopin's first piano teacher, born in Mšeno, Bohemia (d. 1842)
- Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
- Ronald Ross, British pathologist (Nobel Prize 1902), born in Almora, North-Western Provinces, British India (d. 1932)
- August Enna, Danish composer (The Witch), (d. 1939)
- Gil Evans, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (Miles Davis; Absolute Beginners, Out of the Cool), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1988)
- Stig Gustav Schonberg, composer
- Richard Brooks, singer (Impressions)
- Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie and the Blowfish), born in Charleston, South Carolina

Weather fact of the day

On this date in 1981, a tornado decimated Emberson, Texas. Homes were leveled, and a man in a bathtub was hurled a quarter of a mile but, amazingly, no one was killed in the twister. Witnesses reportedly did not see the funnel cloud of the 450-yard-wide tornado but rather just a large wall of debris.

Today in History

- Lord Salisbury offers Helgoland to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria
- German and Italian forces in Africa surrender
- German occupiers attempt to confiscate all radios in the Netherlands
- Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
- 47th British Academy Television Awards: "Da Ali G Show" Best Comedy, "Clocking Off" Best Drama
- The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Greystone G andCC: Steve Stricker wins his first career major title by 6 strokes ahead of Billy Andrade, Paul Goydos and David Toms
- Alden Ashforth, composer
- Nigel Butterley, Australian pianist and composer (The True Samaritan), born in Sydney, Australia
- Teddy Randazzo, American pop singer-songwriter (I'm on the Outside Looking In), born in NYC, New York (d. 2003)
- Claudie Andre-Deshays, French cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-24)