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August 17, 2026
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☰ Top Movies
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5-Katseye: Wild Hearts$3,950,000
6-Six: The Musical Live!$3,000,000
7-The Brink of War$2,684,100
84Toy Story 5$475,468,651
93One Night Only$9,860,065
10-Vishwanath and Sons$1,634,000
☰ Spotify Canada
1=Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
2+1STELLA LEFTY : Boston
3-1Drake : Janice STFU
4=Tame Impala : Loser
5+2Shakira : Dai Dai
6+3Ella Langley : Be Her
7-2Morgan Wallen : Been By Now
8-2Malcolm Todd : Earrings
9-1Steve Lacy : oh yeah?
10+1Cameron Whitcomb : Kingdom of Fear
11+2The Killers : Mr. Brightside
12+4Olivia Dean : Man I Need
13+6Ella Langley : weren't for the wind
14-2Temper City : Self Aware
15-5Ariana Grande : hate that i made you love me
16+6Shaboozey : A Bar Song (Tipsy)
17+1Alex Warren : Ordinary
18-1Dominic Fike : Babydoll
19+5Fleetwood Mac : Dreams - 2001 Remaster
20-6KATSEYE : Animal
21=The Goo Goo Dolls : Iris
22-2Olivia Rodrigo : stupid song
23+10Journey : Don't Stop Believin' (2022 Remaster)
☰ Standings
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1Avalanche55-16-11121
2Hurricanes53-22-7113
3Stars50-20-12112
4Sabres50-23-9109
5Lightning50-26-6106
6Canadiens48-24-10106
7Wild46-24-12104
8Bruins45-27-10100
9Senators44-27-1199
10Penguins41-25-1698
11Flyers43-27-1298
12Capitals43-30-995
☰ slashdot
- Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits
- A Rosier Future for Linux Gamers? Epic Games Announces Linux Version of Its Storefront
- Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance?
- Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates - or Processes
- Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features
☰ sportsnet
- Blue Jays finish strong homestand with extra-inning loss to Yankees
- American League wild-card roundup: Blue Jays remain game back of final spot
- Canada’s Leylah Fernandez eliminated in second round of Cincinnati Open
- How the Blue Jays gained momentum during a gruelling stretch
- Whitecaps find pair of late goals to hand Sounders seventh straight loss
☰ espn
- Texas native Miller agrees to deal with Cowboys
- Sources: Cardinals RB Love has high ankle sprain
- Vikings lose Adams for season due to knee injury
- Dodgers' Roberts decries club's offense, defense
- Retired Donald works out for Rams for 2nd time
☰ global
- Fitz the grizzly bear briefly escapes his enclosure at the Calgary Zoo
- Marcus Ericsson wins inaugural Ontario Honda Dealers Indy in Markham
- Search ongoing for missing pilot in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region
- Quebec man must pay $1K over using fake AI-generated legal cases, court rules
- Montreal police confirm use of licence-plate camera in targeted investigation
☰ Ars Technica
- Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
- VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event
- Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
- So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
- Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
☰ nyt world
- How Ukraine’s Satellites Help Drive Its War Drones
- Trump’s Overture to North Korea Strains Alliance With the South
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Signals Intention to Keep Country on a War Footing
- China Wants Its Data to Power the World’s A.I.
- U.S. and Iran Blow Through Deadline to Agree to a Broad Deal to End War
☰ cbc
- Demand for Canadian citizenship certificates soaring, fuelled by Americans
- Where do Canada-U.S. trade negotiations stand? Here's a sector-by-sector breakdown
- Push for co-operation among European shipbuilders could have Canadian ripple effect
- Russian enriched uranium shipped to Canadian-owned Westinghouse in U.S.
- Uncovered texts reveal alleged gun-for-hire network tied to attempted Project South hit
☰ space
- Exploring the moon will require rovers that can think for themselves
- Airborne observatory improves views of solar corona during cloud-covered eclipse
- Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the moon to eavesdrop on whispers from the early universe
- Satellite constellations could create spiraling space debris
- Radiation vest tested on NASA moonshot can cut astronauts' exposure in solar storms, study suggests
☰ science daily
- Scientists reveal why walking gets so much harder with age
- Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
- Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected
- Tiny graphene wrinkles create surprisingly powerful electrical effects
- Animals have been eating nature’s original bioplastic for millions of years
☰ 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
- After Half A Century, Physicists Find The Strongest Evidence Yet For An Exotic 'Glueball' Particle
- Scientists Wiggled a Fish's Earbones With Light – And Changed Its Heartbeat
- Forget The 7-Year Rule – Scientists Found a Better Way to Calculate a Dog's Age
- Earth's Chemistry Did Something Strange Right Before Its Biggest Mass Extinctions
☰ Weather Forecast
Tue 18 Aug

high: 25°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 22°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
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high: 24°C
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high: 23°C
Cloudy
Tue 18 Aug

high: 27°C
Mainly sunny
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high: 25°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 25°C
Sunny
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high: 25°C
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high: 24°C
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Tue 18 Aug

high: 26°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: 22°C
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high: 24°C
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high: 26°C
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high: 25°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Tue 18 Aug

high: 25°C
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high: 24°C
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high: 22°C
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high: 24°C
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high: 25°C
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high: 22°C
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high: 27°C
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high: 27°C
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high: 25°C
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high: 22°C
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Tue 18 Aug

high: 21°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: 21°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 21°C
Sunny
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high: 22°C
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high: 21°C
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Mon 17 Aug

high: 24°C
Sunny
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high: 23°C
Sunny
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high: 22°C
Sunny
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high: 24°C
Sunny
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high: 24°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Mon 17 Aug

high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Tue 18 Aug

high: 27°C
Sunny
 Wed 19 Aug

high: 28°C
Sunny
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high: 25°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 21 Aug

high: 28°C
Sunny
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AMZN 262.64 -2.37   -0.89%
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NVDA 225.19 0.00   0.00%
TESLA 342.36 +2.35   +0.69%
NFLX 78.18 -0.07   -0.09%
AMD 514.49 +31.61   +6.55%
INTC 102.54 0.00   0.00%
QCOM 165.82 +1.00   +0.61%
NXP 234.58 +2.66   +1.15%
AVGO 393.06 -24.79   -5.93%
IBM 234.38 -2.62   -1.11%
CSCO 111.67 -1.80   -1.59%
ORCL 150.35 -5.91   -3.78%
CRM 196.19 -5.17   -2.57%
ADBE 264.02 -6.46   -2.39%
CIEN 428.58 -14.26   -3.22%
JPM 362.84 -0.28   -0.08%
BAC 64.49 +0.39   +0.62%
GS 1,038.66 -3.65   -0.35%
VISA 364.02 -1.16   -0.32%
MA 569.27 +2.17   +0.38%
WMT 115.27 -0.46   -0.40%
KO 87.71 +0.27   +0.31%
PEP 140.79 +0.17   +0.12%
DIS 106.86 +2.08   +1.98%
MCD 272.83 +0.60   +0.22%
NKE 40.73 -0.49   -1.18%
BA 231.65 +1.33   +0.58%
XOM 160.11 +1.45   +0.91%
CVX 200.03 +2.32   +1.17%
☰ Word of the Day
circumambient

adjective: Surrounding.
☰ Thought of the Day
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau from Emile
☰ Born on this day
- Eric Drummond, British politician and diplomat, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33), born in Fulford, England (d. 1951)
- Kurt Hiller, German writer, born in Berlin (d. 1972)
- Clara [G Meijer-] Wichmann, German anarchist and feminist (Wife and society), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1922)
- Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian, born in Baghdad (d. 1995)
- Maureen O'Hara [FitzSimons], Irish-American actress (Miracle on 34th Street; The Quiet Man; Only The Lonely), and singer, born in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland (d. 2015)
- Chaleo Yoovidhya, Thai co-creator of Red Bull energy drink, born in Phichit, Thailand (d. 2012)
- Hakon Barfod, Norwegian sailor (Olympic gold 1948, 52), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2013)
- Kenny Sears, American NBA player (NY Knicks), born in Watsonville, California (d. 2017)
☰ Weather News
- NOAA Announces 2026 Small Business of the Year Award Recipient
- Madeline Yarkin
- David Winchester
☰ Today in History
- People's Bath, the first public bathhouse with showers, opens in New York City
- Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
- Boycott scores his first Test cricket century: 113 against Australia at The Oval
- Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken plays in his 1,208th consecutive game and moves to 3rd place all-time behind NY Yankees' Lou Gehrig and Boston Red Sox/NY Yankees' Everett Scott
- China wins its 33rd gold medal of the Beijing Olympics by defeating Singapore in the table tennis women's team event, achieving its most successful Olympiad ever by winning all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches
- Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (International Bruckner Society; Mozart's Requiem), and educator (Vienna University, 1932-73), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1991)
- Francis Gary Powers, American spy captured by the USSR after his U-2 spy was shot plane in 1959, born in Jenkins, Kentucky (d. 1977)
- Kevin Welch, American country songwriter ("True Love Never Dies"), born in Long Beach, California
- Johnny Bumphus, American boxer (WBA super lightweight title 1984), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 2020)
- Ederson [de Moraes], Brazilian football goalkeeper (Manchester City, Brazil), born in Osasco, Brazil

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