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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
January 04, 2026
conditions at 05:46 in : Mainly Clear, -17.5°C Mostly Cloudy, -5.4°C Cloudy, -14.8°C Mostly Cloudy, -23.5°C Clear, -22.3°C , -21.2°C Rainshower, 7.7°C Light Snow, -14.3°C
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☰ Top Movies
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☰ Spotify Canada
1Taylor Swift : The Fate of Ophelia
3HUNTR/X : Golden
4Olivia Dean : Man I Need
5Alex Warren : Ordinary
6Disco Lines : No Broke Boys
7RAYE : WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!
8Olivia Dean : So Easy (To Fall In Love)
9sombr : back to friends
12Taylor Swift : Opalite
13Benson Boone : Beautiful Things
14Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
15Fleetwood Mac : Dreams - 2004 Remaster
16Chappell Roan : Pink Pony Club
18The Goo Goo Dolls : Iris
19Teddy Swims : Lose Control
20The Killers : Mr. Brightside
21Tyla : CHANEL
22Shaboozey : A Bar Song (Tipsy)
23Billie Eilish : BIRDS OF A FEATHER
24ROSÉ : APT.
25She & Him : I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
27KATSEYE : Gabriela
28EsDeeKid : 4 Raws
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☰ slashdot
- Reddit Surges in Popularity to Overtake TikTok in the UK - Thanks to Google's Algorithm?
- New Tesla Video Shows Tesla Semi Electric Truck Charging at 1.2 MW
- What Happened When Alaska's Court System Tried Answering Questions with an AI Chatbot?
- Google's $250M Deal with California to Fund Newsrooms May Be Stalled
- Has Microsoft Discontinued Offline Activation of Windows?
☰ cbc sports
- Milan construction workers put on brave face as race to finish Olympic hockey arena comes down to the wire
- Blue Jays, Japanese infielder Kazuma Okamoto agree to 4-year, $60M US contract: reports
- Torrent defeat Sceptres in shootout as Takeover Tour visits Hamilton
- Canada's Sharpe, Fraser amp up Olympic halfpipe preparation after Calgary World Cup
- 'This feels amazing': Canada's Cynthia Appiah earns silver in World Cup monobob in Germany
☰ espn
- Seahawks silence 49ers' offense in Week 18, win NFC's No. 1 seed
- Seahawks silence 49ers, lock up NFC's No. 1 seed
- Playoff-hopeful Panthers, Bucs to root for rivals
- CMC owns key drop, 49ers lament missed chances
- Brown dazzles with 50 in Celts' blowout of Clips
☰ global
- Bruins centre Minten plays hero in hometown debut
- Hawks bring out the best in Alexander-Walker
- A new ‘cold’ war? Canada looks to bolster Arctic security, sovereignty
- Barrett, Ingram help Raptors surge past Hawks
- 1 person dead after early-morning Edmonton house fire
☰ Ars Technica
- No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images
- Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case
- OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products
- Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert”
- SpaceX begins “significant reconfiguration” of Starlink satellite constellation
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☰ cbc
- Trump says U.S. will 'run' Venezuela after it ousts Maduro, jails him in New York
- Thousands evacuated from Pimicikamak Cree Nation after homes, water treatment plant damaged in power outage
- Scrutiny turns to safety arrangements at Swiss bar after deadly blaze
- How a good old-fashioned boycott got Canada to trade Kentucky bourbon for Canadian whisky
- Arctic communities testing new 'bear-dar' to detect wildlife threats
☰ space
- Space mice come home and start families
- The year's first meteor shower and supermoon clash in January skies
- Turning structural failure into propulsion
- The moon and sun figure big in the new year's lineup of cosmic wonders
- Meet NASA's Artemis Closeout Crew, tasked with securing astronauts in their spacecraft
☰ science daily
- Type 2 diabetes physically changes the human heart, study finds
- Scientists found a way to help aging guts heal themselves
- A weak body clock may be an early warning for dementia
- This ancient fossil could rewrite the story of human origins
- The hidden timing system that shapes how you think
☰ new scientist
- See how fire has changed the world's largest wetland, the Pantanal
- Why stroking seedlings can help them grow big and strong
- Why I'm going to reap the mental health benefits of stargazing in 2026
- Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?
- Russia-US nuclear pact set to end in 2026 and we won't see another
☰ science blog
- Green Hydrogen Just Got Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels, Thanks to Sugar
- Astronomers Finally Weigh a Rogue Planet Drifting Alone Through the Galaxy
- Scientists Grow a Breathing Lung on a Chip Using One Person’s Cells
- Tumor Bacteria May Sabotage Immunotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer
☰ Weather Forecast
Mon 5 Jan

high: -14°C
Snow
 Tue 6 Jan

high: -9°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 7 Jan

high: -2°C
Chance of snow
pop: 40%
 Thu 8 Jan

high: 0°C
Cloudy
 Fri 9 Jan

high: 4°C
Chance of rain or snow
pop: 60%
Mon 5 Jan

high: 0°C
Periods of snow
 Tue 6 Jan

high: 1°C
Cloudy
 Wed 7 Jan

high: 3°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 40%
 Thu 8 Jan

high: 5°C
Cloudy
 Fri 9 Jan

high: 7°C
Chance of rain
pop: 60%
Mon 5 Jan

high: -14°C
Periods of light snow
 Tue 6 Jan

high: -8°C
Periods of snow
 Wed 7 Jan

high: -2°C
Cloudy
 Thu 8 Jan

high: 1°C
Cloudy
 Fri 9 Jan

high: 5°C
Periods of rain
Mon 5 Jan

high: -18°C
Mainly sunny
 Tue 6 Jan

high: -10°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 7 Jan

high: -5°C
Cloudy
 Thu 8 Jan

high: -2°C
Cloudy
 Fri 9 Jan

high: 2°C
Periods of snow or rain
Mon 5 Jan

high: -14°C
Mainly sunny
 Tue 6 Jan

high: -9°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 7 Jan

high: 1°C
Periods of snow
 Thu 8 Jan

high: -2°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 9 Jan

high: 4°C
Chance of flurries or rain showers
pop: 60%
Mon 5 Jan

high: -16°C
Mainly sunny
 Tue 6 Jan

high: -10°C
Sunny
 Wed 7 Jan

high: -6°C
Cloudy
 Thu 8 Jan

high: -5°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 9 Jan

high: 1°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
Sun 4 Jan

high: 8°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Mon 5 Jan

high: 6°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Tue 6 Jan

high: 5°C
Rain or snow
 Wed 7 Jan

high: 6°C
Periods of rain
 Thu 8 Jan

high: 6°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Sun 4 Jan

high: -10°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Mon 5 Jan

high: -11°C
Sunny
 Tue 6 Jan

high: 2°C
Sunny
 Wed 7 Jan

high: 0°C
Sunny
 Thu 8 Jan

high: 1°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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AMD 223.45 +9.27   +4.33%
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QCOM 172.93 +1.89   +1.11%
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IBM 291.39 0.00   0.00%
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☰ Word of the Day
titanic

adjective (tye-TAN-ik)

Something described as titanic is very great in size, force, or power.

☰ Thought of the Day
"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole, Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul." - Muslih-uddin Sadi (also known as Saadi Shirazi), from his work The Gulistan (The Rose Garden), written in 1258.
☰ Born on this day
- Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian communist politician who worked with Tito, born in Belgrade, Serbia (d. 1957)
- Manuel Palau, Spanish composer (Concierto Levantino; Mascarada sarcástica), and educator (Conservatory of Valencia), born in Alfara del Patriarca, Spain (d. 1967)
- Manoel de Abreu, Brazilian radiologist who developed chest photofluorography, born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1962)
- Floyd Patterson, American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1956-59, 1960-62, Olympic gold 1952), born in Waco, North Carolina (d. 2006)
- Grace Bumbry, American mezzo-soprano (Venus in Tannhäuser, 1st Black singer to sing at Bayreuth Festival), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2023)
- Pete Haycock, British blues-rock guitarist, vocalist, and composer (Climax Blues Band - "Couldn't Get It Right"), born in Stafford, England (d. 2013)
- Michael Stipe, American rock vocalist and songwriter (R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion"; "Stand"; "Everybody Hurts"), born in Decatur, Georgia
- Till Lindemann, German heavy metal singer (Rammstein), born in Leipzig, East Germany
☰ Weather News
- The 2026 Marine Debris Calendar is now available!
- 2025 Arctic Report Card released & Photo Contest winners announced
- Polar-orbiting and Geostationary Satellites: Revolutionizing Earth Observations
☰ Today in History
- Benjamin Franklin arrives in London [OS=Dec 24 1724]
- US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack
- Arthur Schwartz, Ira Gershwin, and George S. Kaufman's musical "Park Avenue" closes at the Shubert Theater, NYC, after 72 performances
- Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul
- Sixteen die in a train crash in Chase, Maryland
- Carl Humann, German engineer and self-made archaeologist who discovered the Pergamon altar, born in Steele, Prussia (d. 1896)
- Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist, born in Nizhny Lomov, Russia (d. 1943)
- Yvan Attal, Israeli-French actor (Love Without Pity) and director (The Accusation), born in Tel Aviv, Israel
- Sean Lumpkin, American NFL safety (New Orleans Saints), born in Golden Valley, Minnesota
- Liza Soberano, Filipino-American actress (Forevermore; Everyday I Love You), born in Santa Clara, California

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