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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 08, 2026
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☰ Spotify Canada
1=Djo : End of Beginning
2=Taylor Swift : The Fate of Ophelia
3=Olivia Dean : Man I Need
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12=Taylor Swift : Opalite
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14+1Fleetwood Mac : Dreams - 2004 Remaster
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16=Benson Boone : Beautiful Things
17=She & Him : I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
18-4The Police : Every Breath You Take
19=The Killers : Mr. Brightside
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☰ Standings
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☰ slashdot
- SteamOS Continues Its Slow Spread Across the PC Gaming Landscape
- How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation
- Japan's Nuclear Watchdog Halts Plant's Reactor Safety Screening Over Falsified Data
- AI Chip Frenzy To Wallop DRAM Prices With 70% Hike
- Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides
☰ cbc sports
- Canadian figure skaters ready to emerge from shadow of vaunted 2018 team
- U Sports can learn something from NCAA's mastery of visibility when marketing its own football product
- Glenn Hall, whose NHL goalie starts streak may never be broken, dies at age 94
- Olympic spots are on the line at the Canadian figure skating championships
- Alberta-developed VR technology aims to help Canada’s wheelchair curlers train for Milano-Cortina Paralympics
☰ espn
- Grading the Trae Young trade: How did the Hawks and Wizards fare?
- Sources: Hawks end Young era, send G to Wiz
- Chiefs 'aware' of abuse allegations by Rice's ex
- Jim Harbaugh hails John, hopes he's NFC-bound
- Spurs' Sochan: 'Polite exchange' with Vanderbilt
☰ global
- Call of the Wilde: Montreal Canadiens dominate the Calgary Flames
- Denmark says talks with the U.S. ‘needed’ over Greenland
- Minneapolis on edge after ICE officer fatally shot woman
- The Curator: How to organize your fridge like a pro (step-by-step guide)
- Affordable home decor upgrades: Best finds under $50
☰ Ars Technica
- Volvo says new EX60 has 400-mile range, charges up to 400 kW
- NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station
- Ford is getting ready to put AI assistants in its cars
- Samsung’s Ballie home robot, once promised for summer 2025, gets grim update
- AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah
☰ reuters
- Britons splurge on food, cut back on gifts as retailers warn of tough 2026 - Reuters
- Trump administration cannot proceed with pilot drug rebate program, US court rules - Reuters
- Wall St futures dip; defense firms climb as Trump calls for higher budget - Reuters
- Morning Bid: Trump’s visible hand - Reuters
- Pope Leo urges Catholic cardinals to create more inclusive Church - Reuters
☰ cbc
- With Trump's Venezuela move and Greenland threats, are Canadians vulnerable?
- Ontario mobile homeowners struggling to sell properties accuse park owner of using tactics that break the law
- Trump suspends U.S. support for 66 international organizations
- Remote First Nation in Ontario 'in a dire situation' over unclean water, wants military to help get people out
- The Canada Reads 2026 longlist is here
☰ space
- The next great space race: Building data centers in orbit
- Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage
- Before we build on the moon, we have to master the commute
- Rethinking how we end a satellite's mission
- India space agency launches its heaviest satellite
☰ science daily
- Scientists tried to break Einstein’s speed of light rule
- A quantum discovery that breaks the rules of heating
- Just 10 minutes of exercise can trigger powerful anti-cancer effects
- Scientists are closing in on the Universe’s biggest mystery
- People in Brazil are living past 110 and scientists want to know why
☰ new scientist
- Why connecting with nature shouldn't mean disconnecting from science
- The best new science-fiction shows of 2026
- Exercise may relieve depression as effectively as antidepressants
- Weight regain seems to occur within 2 years of stopping obesity drugs
- Hunting with poison arrows may have begun 60,000 years ago in Africa
☰ science blog
- Silicon Crystals Are Whispering to Themselves, and It’s Messing Up the Dark Matter Hunt
- Direct Flights Drive Where Global Firms Put Down Roots
- Artificial Empathy and the Future of Lonely Recovery
- A Persistent Hum Might Help Clear Alzheimer’s Plaques—For Weeks
☰ Weather Forecast
Fri 9 Jan

high: 6°C
Periods of rain or drizzle
 Sat 10 Jan

high: -1°C
Chance of snow or rain
pop: 40%
 Sun 11 Jan

high: -2°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 40%
 Mon 12 Jan

high: -4°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 30%
 Tue 13 Jan

high: 0°C
Cloudy
Fri 9 Jan

high: 11°C
Periods of rain or drizzle
 Sat 10 Jan

high: 3°C
Chance of rain
pop: 70%
 Sun 11 Jan

high: -1°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 40%
 Mon 12 Jan

high: -1°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Tue 13 Jan

high: 2°C
Cloudy
Fri 9 Jan

high: 6°C
Rain
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high: 2°C
Cloudy
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high: 1°C
Snow
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high: -2°C
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high: 0°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 40%
Fri 9 Jan

high: 2°C
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high: 3°C
Sunny
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high: -5°C
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high: -4°C
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high: -3°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
Fri 9 Jan

high: 4°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Sat 10 Jan

high: 8°C
Periods of rain
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high: -1°C
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high: -1°C
Periods of snow
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high: -1°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Fri 9 Jan

high: 2°C
Periods of rain
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high: 1°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sun 11 Jan

high: -6°C
Snow
 Mon 12 Jan

high: -4°C
Snow
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high: -3°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 30%
Fri 9 Jan

high: 8°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Sat 10 Jan

high: 7°C
Rain
 Sun 11 Jan

high: 8°C
Rain
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high: 10°C
Rain
 Tue 13 Jan

high: 11°C
Periods of rain
Fri 9 Jan

high: 2°C
Mainly sunny
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high: 11°C
Sunny
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high: 10°C
Sunny
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high: 11°C
Sunny
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high: 11°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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AMD 210.00 -4.23   -1.97%
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AVGO 343.52 -0.11   -0.03%
IBM 296.79 -5.68   -1.88%
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CRM 266.06 +3.28   +1.25%
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☰ Word of the Day
gumbo

noun (GUM-boh)

Gumbo refers to a soup thickened with okra pods or filé and containing meat or seafoods and usually vegetables. The word is also used figuratively to refer to a mixture or blend of something.

☰ Thought of the Day
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words." - Thomas Reid
☰ Born on this day
- Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, Swiss pianist, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1871)
- Lawrence Pike Graham, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Amelia County, Virginia (d. 1905)
- Pavel Filonov, Russian avant-garde painter, born in Moscow (d. 1941)
- Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (Ballets Russes) and choreographer, born in Minsk, Russian Empire (d. 1972)
- Gret Palucca, German dancer and choreographer (Silent Song), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1993)
- Benjamin Lees [Lysniansky], American composer (Kalmar Nyckel; Memorial Candles), born in Harbin, Manchuria, China (d. 2010)
- Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes and Baby Universes), born in Oxford, England (d. 2018)
- Teresa Salgueiro, Portuguese folk and world music singer, and songwriter (Madredeus, 1987-2007), born in Lisbon, Portugal
☰ Weather News
- Meet the mothers and calves of the 2026 right whale calving season
- Projection Ruling Calls for Trigonometry and a Deft Touch
- A 'stone cold' look: My internship assessing the modeling potential of the Rapid-Refresh Forecast System
☰ Today in History
- Oldest surviving commercial newspaper, "Weeckelycke Courante van Europa", now known as "Haarlems Dagblad", and still in print, begins publication in Haarlem, Netherlands
- Amsterdam gang leader and thief "Sjako" arrested
- Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
- AFC Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Raiders beat Seattle Seahawks, 30-14
- New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so
- Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (Mexican national anthem), born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico (d. 1861)
- Gene Freese, American MLB baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates and 5 other teams), born in Wheeling, West Virginia (d. 2013)
- Michelle Forbes [Guajardo], American actress (True Blood, Guiding Light, Star Trek: The Next Generation), born in Austin, Texas
- Peng Shuai, Chinese tennis player (1st Chinese player to reach No.1 ranking - doubles with Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan, 2014), born in Xiangtan, China
- Cynthia Erivo, British Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress (The Color Purple; Harriet; Wicked (film)) and singer-songwriter ("Stand Up"), born in London, England

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