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October 05, 2026
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☰ Spotify Canada
1+1Drake : Quebec
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3+3Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
4-1Taylor Swift : Patient Zero
5=Drake : Cold Shoulder
6+1ADÉLA : Nicole Kidman
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8-4Noah Kahan : Draw You Out
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10+1Malcolm Todd : Earrings
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☰ slashdot
- After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
- FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
- Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of 'Unknown' Infection
- OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
- How Python Will Test Adding Rust Into CPython
☰ sportsnet
- Canucks’ standards on the rise after 2-2 start: ‘We’ve still got better’
- Flames’ disconnected play sets painful tone for first year of rebuild
- NFL Week 4 Takeaways: Panthers ready for prime time
- Gotta See It: Chourio walks off Padres in Game 2 with base hit
- Braves stifle Dodgers with bullpen day to win Game 2, tie NLDS
☰ espn
- NFL looking into official apparently cursing at Cards TE McBride
- Sources: Thornton dislocates ankle in win, Chiefs 'in contact' with Tyreek Hill
- Braves steal Game 2 without Sale to even NLDS with Dodgers
- 'Everything just clicked' with McMillan, Young in Panthers' primetime win
- Campbell, players back DC Sheppard after Lions defensive woes continue
☰ global
- Easy Thanksgiving hosting: Finds to simplify holiday entertaining
- Quebec residents head to the polls to elect newest premier
- Missing for 22 years: Frank Davis found in Kootenay River
- Screen time limits not enough to tackle problematic social media use: experts
- WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 BC: Oct. 4
☰ Ars Technica
- New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
- Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
- All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
- Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
- The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
☰ nyt world
- Trapped in a Kill Zone, a Ukrainian City Is Beginning to Starve
- How Congo’s Ebola Epidemic Got So Bad So Quickly
- Here’s the latest.
- Turkey Banned a Book by a Jailed Presidential Hopeful. We Read It.
- Voters in Quebec Election Go to Polls as Separatist Parti Québécois Leads
☰ cbc
- Canadians born abroad caught up in yearslong citizenship certificate processing delays
- Cold reality: Canadian troops struggle in Alaska as military relearns Arctic warfare
- The mental health of young men is dropping. Experts warn it could get worse
- U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for crew and passengers from missing Ontario air ambulance
- After years of calls for data, study confirms Black Canadians face higher risk of maternal complications
☰ space
- Team selected for NASA program to explore potential lunar cave
- SpaceX launches 4 astronauts on a fast track to the International Space Station
- Starship's first orbital flight put its heat shield to the test
- SpaceX's Starship rocket does its job during first orbital flight
- NASA announces new missions for Boeing Starliner spacecraft
☰ science daily
- Scientists find a surprising clue to why the universe’s expansion doesn’t add up
- The “glue” holding your cells together has a surprising second job
- This protective enzyme could help stop fatty liver disease from getting worse
- Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds
- A meteor hit Oklahoma 100 million years later than scientists thought
☰ new scientist
- How to maximise the mental health benefits of your vacation
- Strange paraparticles could be reality’s missing ingredient
- Cloudy skies have slowed global warming – but that may be changing
- Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
- Using AI for creative pursuits? Moderation is key
☰ science alert
- Skulls of Civilians Buried Around Egypt's First Kings Reveal Evidence of Human Sacrifice
- After 25 Years, Physicists Can Finally Measure The 'Other' Kind of Quantum Entanglement
- Scientists Find a Surprising Link Between Cats And Happiness Across 93 Countries
- Scientists Might Have Found a New Cause of High Blood Pressure, And a Way to Treat It
☰ Weather Forecast
Tue 6 Oct

high: 13°C
Sunny
 Wed 7 Oct

high: 18°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Thu 8 Oct

high: 16°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Fri 9 Oct

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Sat 10 Oct

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
Tue 6 Oct

high: 16°C
Sunny
 Wed 7 Oct

high: 21°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Thu 8 Oct

high: 19°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Fri 9 Oct

high: 17°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Sat 10 Oct

high: 17°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Tue 6 Oct

high: 13°C
Mainly sunny
 Wed 7 Oct

high: 19°C
Cloudy
 Thu 8 Oct

high: 16°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Fri 9 Oct

high: 14°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sat 10 Oct

high: 13°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Tue 6 Oct

high: 10°C
Mainly cloudy
 Wed 7 Oct

high: 9°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 8 Oct

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Fri 9 Oct

high: 11°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sat 10 Oct

high: 11°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Tue 6 Oct

high: 13°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 7 Oct

high: 15°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Thu 8 Oct

high: 20°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 9 Oct

high: 17°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sat 10 Oct

high: 12°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Tue 6 Oct

high: 8°C
Mainly cloudy
 Wed 7 Oct

high: 9°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 8 Oct

high: 12°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Fri 9 Oct

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

high: 8°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Mon 5 Oct

high: 17°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Tue 6 Oct

high: 16°C
Periods of drizzle
pop: 30%
 Wed 7 Oct

high: 16°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Thu 8 Oct

high: 18°C
Sunny
 Fri 9 Oct

high: 15°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Tue 6 Oct

high: 20°C
Mainly sunny
 Wed 7 Oct

high: 15°C
Sunny
 Thu 8 Oct

high: 15°C
Sunny
 Fri 9 Oct

high: 17°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sat 10 Oct

high: 3°C
Rain or snow
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AVGO 355.14 +11.45   +3.33%
IBM 222.62 -3.06   -1.36%
CSCO 112.18 +3.45   +3.17%
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CRM 234.64 -2.05   -0.86%
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☰ Word of the Day
ideocracy

noun: 1. Government according to the principles of a particular ideology. 2. A state or society governed in this way.
☰ Thought of the Day
"I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man" - Robert Louis Stevenson, from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ch 10.
☰ Born on this day
- Cyril Rootham, English organist, composer, and educator, born in Redland, Bristol, England (d. 1938)
- Linus McAtee, American Hall of Fame jockey (Preakness Stakes 1916; Kentucky Derby 1927, 29; US Champion Jockey by earnings 1928), born in Frenchtown, New Jersey (d. 1963)
- Fritz Fischer, German physician and Nazi war criminal, born in Berlin (d. 2003)
- Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (Minister of Finance), born in Reykjavík, Iceland (d. 1994)
- Rahmon Nabiyev, Tajik politician, First Secretary of The Communist Party (1982-85) and President of Tajikistan (1991-92), born in Leninabad, Tajik SSR (now Khujand, Tajikistan) (d. 1992)
- Richard Street, American RandB musician (The Temptations, 1971-93 - "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2013)
- Shell Kepler [Michelle Alaine Kepler], American actress (General Hospital), born in Painesville, Ohio (d. 2008)
- Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist, born in Los Angeles, California
☰ Weather News
- Olive ridley sea turtles nest in California for the first time
- Weekend nor’easter likely to bring damaging winds, coastal flooding
- NOAA’s flood mapping tool now covers nearly 100% of U.S.
☰ Today in History
- Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays its first game; Montreal defeats Toronto 17-8 in Montreal
- Budy Massacre at Auschwitz sub-camp, 90 French-Jewish women are beaten to death by prison guards
- Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Al Gionfriddo makes a famous catch off Joe DiMaggio in Game 6 of the Baseball World Series; Dodgers beat Yankees 8-6; the catch inspires the "back-back-back" expression
- Magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes the Kuril Islands, killing at least 10 people
- Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of hepatitis C virus
- Jonathan Edwards, Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin), born in East Windsor, Connecticut Colony (d. 1758)
- Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian politician (4th Mayor of Halifax) and brewer (founder of the Alexander Keith's Nova Scotia Brewery), born in Halkirk, Caithness, Highland, Scotland (d. 1873)
- Robert Adams, English sculptor and designer, born in Far Cotton, Northampton (d. 1984)
- Richard Lamparski, American interviewer and author (Whatever Became Of...?), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2025)
- Maureen Waaka, first Māori Miss World contestant, second Māori woman to win Miss New Zealand (1962), and council politician (1998–2013), born in Ohinemutu, New Zealand (d. 2013)

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