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May 02, 2026
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☰ Spotify Canada
1=Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
2=Noah Kahan : Doors
3=Justin Bieber : Beauty And A Beat
4=Olivia Rodrigo : drop dead
5=Dominic Fike : Babydoll
6+1Justin Bieber : DAISIES
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14=PinkPantheress : Stateside + Zara Larsson
15+2Malcolm Todd : Earrings
16+3Ella Langley : Be Her
17-2Noah Kahan : Downfall
18-2Noah Kahan : Willing and Able
19+3The Killers : Mr. Brightside
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21-1Tame Impala : Dracula - JENNIE Remix
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23=Noah Kahan : Staying Still
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☰ slashdot
- New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test
- Amazon Stuck With Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes On Data Centers
- Microsoft's Xbox Mode Is Now Available For All Windows 11 PCs
- AI Agent Designed To Speed Up Company's Coding Wipes Entire Database In 9 Seconds
- Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic
☰ cbc sports
- Habs' 1-0 OT loss to Lightning sets stage for Game 7 on Sunday
- Toronto Raptors force Game 7 after 112-110 overtime win against Cavaliers
- Canada Soccer receiving $9.8M from Ottawa for national training centre project
- PWHL NOTEBOOK | Once the Montreal Victoire's weakness, depth is now its biggest strength
- Canada loses 6-4 to Sweden in semifinals of mixed doubles curling championship
☰ espn
- East playoff takeaways: Raptors force Game 7 in OT...
- Lakers blow out Rockets, advance to face Thunder
- Pistons roar back to stun ice-cold Magic, force G7...
- Barrett saves Raptors' season with dramatic 3
- Sabres win playoff series for 1st time since 2007
☰ global
- ‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions
- Edmonton Oilers fans search for answers after team’s early playoff exit
- Keystone XL not the only option, says Canada’s energy minister
- Barrett sinks game-winning three-pointer
- Call of the Wilde: Tampa Bay forces a Game 7 after a classic battle at the Bell Centre
☰ Ars Technica
- Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors
- The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
- Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive
- Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
- Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races
☰ nyt world
- South Korea’s Cherry Blossoms Attract a Connoisseur: The Japanese
- Learning Muay Thai Can Allow Visitors to Stay in Thailand Longer
- A 5-Month Wait and a 50% Fail Rate: It’s Hard to Get a British Driving License
- Mexican Governor Accused by U.S. of Aiding Drug Cartel Steps Down
- As Israel Entrenches, Frustration With Hezbollah Turns to Support
☰ cbc
- U.S. withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, Pentagon announces
- Calgary father charged with 1st-degree murder in deaths of 2 children
- Air force major and decorated marksman pleads guilty to illegally importing firearms
- This northwestern Ont., resident saw a bird of prey under attack and stepped in to save it
- Elections Alberta alerted to improper use of voters’ information in late March, journalist says
☰ space
- NASA Laser Terminal enhances views during Artemis II mission
- A new way to plan trajectories to asteroids
- Under crushing hypergravity, fruit flies adapt—and recover
- European rocket puts Amazon internet satellites in orbit
- Trump says US has 'a shot' at crewed Moon landing before presidency ends
☰ science daily
- This 275-million-year-old animal had a twisted jaw like nothing alive today
- This “Pink Floyd” spider hunts prey 6x its size and lives in walls
- You don’t need intense workouts to build muscle, new study reveals
- Oxford physicists achieve first-ever “quadsqueezing” breakthrough in quantum physics
- New treatment cuts bad cholesterol by nearly 50% without statins
☰ new scientist
- Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
- Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
- 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
- Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
- NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
☰ science alert
- Immune Cells 'Remember' Obesity Long After Weight Loss, Study Finds
- An Unknown State of Matter Could Be Hiding in Our Solar System
- New Tool Lets You Trace Where Your Backyard Was 320 Million Years Ago
- Large Twin Study Reveals a Surprise About Narcissism
☰ Weather Forecast
Sat 2 May

high: 12°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Sun 3 May

high: 13°C
Sunny
 Mon 4 May

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Tue 5 May

high: 15°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Wed 6 May

high: 15°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Sat 2 May

high: 10°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Sun 3 May

high: 13°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Mon 4 May

high: 17°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Tue 5 May

high: 17°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Wed 6 May

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
Sat 2 May

high: 12°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Sun 3 May

high: 13°C
Sunny
 Mon 4 May

high: 16°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Tue 5 May

high: 21°C
Cloudy
 Wed 6 May

high: 15°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Sat 2 May

high: 9°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Sun 3 May

high: 10°C
Sunny
 Mon 4 May

high: 10°C
Rain
 Tue 5 May

high: 18°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Wed 6 May

high: 13°C
Periods of rain
Sat 2 May

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Sun 3 May

high: 7°C
Rain
 Mon 4 May

high: 15°C
Sunny
 Tue 5 May

high: 19°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 6 May

high: 15°C
Showers
Sat 2 May

high: 9°C
Increasing cloudiness
 Sun 3 May

high: 9°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Mon 4 May

high: 11°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Tue 5 May

high: 18°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Wed 6 May

high: 10°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Sat 2 May

high: 19°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Sun 3 May

high: 22°C
Sunny
 Mon 4 May

high: 23°C
Sunny
 Tue 5 May

high: 21°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 6 May

high: 21°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Sat 2 May

high: 17°C
Mainly sunny
 Sun 3 May

high: 20°C
Sunny
 Mon 4 May

high: 11°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Tue 5 May

high: 13°C
Sunny
 Wed 6 May

high: 20°C
Sunny
☰ Stocks ⚙
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DOW 49,499.27 -152.87   -0.31%
NASDAQ 27,710.36 +258.24   +0.94%
AAPL 280.10 +9.10   +3.36%
GOOG 383.30 +1.30   +0.34%
MSFT 414.46 +7.00   +1.72%
AMZN 268.35 +3.37   +1.27%
META 608.68 -3.37   -0.55%
NVDA 198.41 -1.12   -0.56%
TESLA 390.98 0.00   0.00%
NFLX 92.10 -1.50   -1.60%
AMD 360.44 +6.09   +1.72%
INTC 99.67 +5.21   +5.52%
QCOM 177.04 -2.58   -1.44%
NXP 295.31 +1.77   +0.60%
AVGO 421.15 +3.68   +0.88%
IBM 232.24 +1.20   +0.52%
CSCO 91.86 +0.37   +0.40%
ORCL 171.86 +10.68   +6.63%
CRM 183.76 +7.24   +4.10%
ADBE 250.75 +4.69   +1.91%
CIEN 535.39 +6.80   +1.29%
JPM 312.48 -0.84   -0.27%
BAC 53.23 -0.24   -0.45%
GS 923.71 -0.06   -0.01%
VISA 328.07 -1.99   -0.60%
MA 495.31 -7.89   -1.57%
WMT 131.60 -0.31   -0.24%
KO 78.58 -0.19   -0.24%
PEP 157.38 -1.10   -0.69%
DIS 103.11 -0.67   -0.65%
MCD 286.63 -6.95   -2.37%
NKE 44.42 +0.05   +0.12%
BA 227.42 -1.57   -0.69%
XOM 152.77 -1.68   -1.09%
CVX 190.60 -2.71   -1.40%
☰ Word of the Day
Beltane

noun (BEL-tayn)

Beltane refers to the Celtic May Day festival.

☰ Thought of the Day
"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals." - - Michelle Obama
☰ Born on this day
- Abram Sanders Piatt, American farmer, publisher, poet, politician, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1908)
- William Maddock Bayliss, British physiologist, co-discoverer of hormones, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (d. 1924)
- Willi Bredel, German anti-Nazi communist writer (Die Prüfung), born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1964)
- Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American stage and screen singer and actor (The Sound of Music; Fiddler On The Roof; The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; 200 Motels), folk singer (co-founder Newport Folk Festival), and political activist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2015)
- Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), born in Morija, Lesotho (d. 1996)
- Goldy McJohn [John Goadsby], Canadian rock keyboard and Hammond B-3 organ player (Steppenwolf - "Magic Carpet ride"; 'Born To Be Wild"), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2017)
- Lesley Gore [Goldstein], American pop singer ("It's My Party"; "You Don't Own Me"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
- Jill Savery, American synchronized swimmer (Olympic gold 1996), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
☰ Weather News
- Environmental Literacy Program awards portfolio
- Dolphin or porpoise? How to tell the difference
- Artemis II returns: How NOAA helped protect astronauts during the 10-day NASA mission
☰ Today in History
- The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria
- US stops minting the 20-cent coin due to public confusion with the quarter
- Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film (used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope)
- Hussein I installed as King of Jordan
- 124th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 2:02.20
- Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian baroque composer (Tigrane), born in Palermo, Sicily, Viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire (d. 1725)
- Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist and father of modern political Zionism (World Zionist Organization), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1904)
- Laurie Nash, Australian cricket fast-bowler (2 Tests, 10 wickets) and VFL player and coach (South Melbourne), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1986)
- Elliot Goldenthal, American concert, theater, and Academy Award-winning film score composer (Frida; Juan Darién - A Carnival Mass), born in Brooklyn, New York City
- Saulius Mikoliūnas, Lithuanian footballer, born in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR

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