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August 20, 2026
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☰ Spotify Canada
1=Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
2=Tame Impala : Loser
3+1STELLA LEFTY : Boston
4+1Malcolm Todd : Earrings
5-2Drake : Janice STFU
6=Steve Lacy : oh yeah?
7=Morgan Wallen : Been By Now
8+3Ella Langley : Be Her
9=Cameron Whitcomb : Kingdom of Fear
10+3The Killers : Mr. Brightside
11-1Shakira : Dai Dai
12-4Temper City : Self Aware
13-1Ariana Grande : hate that i made you love me
14+3Olivia Dean : Man I Need
15=Olivia Rodrigo : stupid song
16+4The Goo Goo Dolls : Iris
17-3Dominic Fike : Babydoll
18-2Alex Warren : Ordinary
19=Olivia Rodrigo : the cure
20+3Vance Joy : Riptide
21-3Ella Langley : weren't for the wind
22-1Shaboozey : A Bar Song (Tipsy)
23+1Fleetwood Mac : Dreams - 2001 Remaster
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6Canadiens48-24-10106
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10Penguins41-25-1698
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12Capitals43-30-995
☰ slashdot
- Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers
- YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix
- Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces
- FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies
- Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data
☰ sportsnet
- Blue Jays on Sportsnet: Toronto vs. Tampa Bay
- Gotta See It: Lukes makes incredible leaping catch to rob Mullins’ homer
- Blue Jays’ Sanchez owns up to mistakes: ‘I know I need to improve’
- How recent drafts tipped the scales for Canadian-American hockey supremacy
- Around the CFL: Can Ticats QB Tre Ford maintain momentum vs. Argos?
☰ espn
- Projecting next year's QB market: Most likely scenarios and long-shot possibilities for 16 NFL teams
- Sankey: Pros returning to school 'fuels disruption'
- Lakers minority owner not selling his 4% stake
- Harden agrees to $97M deal to remain with Cavs
- Jets' Johnson buys stake in Aston Martin F1 team
☰ global
- The Curator: 20 Amazon organization products that make your home feel instantly tidier
- Sandra Bullock speaks out for 1st time on death of partner Bryan Randall
- Edmonton Oilers, Boston Bruins to play NHL games in Germany in 2027
- Congo to receive 70K doses of Ervebo Ebola vaccine used in past outbreaks
- Canadian travel to the U.S. increases for 3rd month in a row
☰ Ars Technica
- Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids
- Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90
- SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
- Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces
- Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
☰ nyt world
- Missile Barrage Shows Russia’s Doubt That Ukraine Can Defend Itself
- The Indian City Where AI Is Creating Jobs for Humans
- As Iran and U.S. Settle Into an Uneasy Standoff, Who Will Blink First?
- After Six Years, Harry and Meghan Are Coming Home. What Changed?
- First U.S. Deportees to Arrive in Liberia Amid Growing Backlash
☰ cbc
- Trade minister says officials are 'very close' to finalizing Canada-U.S. trade deal
- With 60 days left until Alberta’s referendum, stay and leave sides plot their course
- Is a mystery man who collapsed in Amsterdam a Canadian who's been missing for 33 years?
- 'NOT it': Some fans cry foul over new Toronto Tempo mascots
- 'A bad taste left in my mouth': Will Canadians buy U.S. booze again?
☰ space
- Rescue mission is called off for NASA's aging Swift space telescope
- Racing to build a radio telescope on the moon
- VR supports research into spaceflight-related mental health
- Mars attacks: How much dust from the red planet is safe to breathe?
- NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will feature a revolutionary antenna design
☰ science daily
- The “Asian water tower” is losing 24 billion tonnes of groundwater every year
- Schizophrenia’s lost brain connections follow a surprising pattern
- This total solar eclipse looked strangely golden — here’s why
- A SpaceX rocket smashed into the Moon — NASA just revealed the crater
- Scientists crushed diamond beyond Neptune-like pressures—and solved a 20-year mystery
☰ 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
- A Hidden Pattern in Your Saliva Can Predict Risk of Colorectal Cancer, Study Finds
- The World's Largest Psychedelic Brain Study of Its Kind Just Found 'Hidden Order' in The Chaos
- Common Vitamin Has a Complicated Link to Cancer, Experts Reveal
- We're Not Taking Harmful Cat Behaviors on The Internet Seriously Enough, Researchers Warn
☰ Weather Forecast
Fri 21 Aug

high: 25°C
Mainly sunny
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high: 27°C
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high: 22°C
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high: 22°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
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high: 24°C
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Fri 21 Aug

high: 26°C
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high: 26°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
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high: 22°C
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high: 22°C
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pop: 40%
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high: 24°C
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high: 26°C
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high: 24°C
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pop: 40%
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high: 25°C
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high: 22°C
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pop: 40%
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high: 23°C
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Fri 21 Aug

high: 24°C
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high: 22°C
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pop: 60%
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high: 19°C
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high: 22°C
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high: 21°C
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pop: 60%
Fri 21 Aug

high: 27°C
Sunny
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high: 25°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: 21°C
Periods of rain
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high: 22°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
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high: 21°C
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Fri 21 Aug

high: 22°C
Sunny
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high: 21°C
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high: 16°C
Rain
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high: 19°C
Showers
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high: 18°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Fri 21 Aug

high: 24°C
Mainly sunny
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high: 23°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
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high: 19°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
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high: 23°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: 23°C
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high: 28°C
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high: 30°C
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high: 28°C
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high: 20°C
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high: 24°C
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AAPL 311.04 -5.84   -1.84%
GOOG 337.89 -3.62   -1.06%
MSFT 480.89 -3.59   -0.74%
AMZN 259.85 -6.02   -2.26%
META 545.82 -0.38   -0.07%
NVDA 216.80 -0.84   -0.39%
TESLA 345.42 -5.77   -1.64%
NFLX 80.12 -0.11   -0.14%
AMD 469.39 +2.53   +0.54%
INTC 92.10 -0.74   -0.80%
QCOM 160.69 -1.25   -0.77%
NXP 222.85 -3.17   -1.40%
AVGO 363.67 +1.16   +0.32%
IBM 233.17 -4.02   -1.69%
CSCO 109.64 -0.92   -0.84%
ORCL 141.79 -2.06   -1.43%
CRM 205.81 -0.32   -0.16%
ADBE 271.95 -0.63   -0.23%
CIEN 393.67 -6.59   -1.65%
JPM 352.68 -4.63   -1.30%
BAC 61.97 -1.20   -1.89%
GS 1,002.46 -19.50   -1.91%
VISA 366.34 +0.66   +0.18%
MA 573.99 +0.18   +0.03%
WMT 103.98 -10.42   -9.11%
KO 90.52 +0.16   +0.17%
PEP 142.10 -0.48   -0.34%
DIS 107.26 +0.32   +0.30%
MCD 269.27 +1.82   +0.68%
NKE 40.23 -0.81   -1.96%
BA 215.40 -6.84   -3.08%
XOM 166.59 +1.77   +1.07%
CVX 205.84 +0.07   +0.03%
☰ Word of the Day
overplus

noun: Something extra; a surplus.
☰ Thought of the Day
"What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent." - Susan Cain, from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
☰ Born on this day
- Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and singer who wrote the 1st recognized opera "Dafne", born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1633)
- Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1890), born in Rosedale, New York (d. 1954)
- Jean Gebser [Hans Gebser], German-Swiss philosopher, author (Ursprung und Gegenwart (The Ever-Present Origin)), linguist, and poet, born in Posen, German Empire (d. 1973)
- Yootha Joyce, British actress (Man About the House, George and Mildred), born in Wandsworth, London (d. 1980)
- Hans-Joachim Klein, German 100m swimmer (Olympic bronze 1964), born in Darmstadt, Germany
- Ray Wise, American actor (Twin Peaks, Dead End), born in Akron, Ohio
- Doug Fieger, American singer–songwriter (The Knack - "My Sharona"), born in Oak Park, Michigan (d. 2010)
- Don Stark, American actor (That '70s Show - "Bob"), born in New York City
☰ Weather News
- Testing the waters: A day at the nation’s largest oil spill simulation tank
- Increased Bluefin Tuna Quotas
- Tech Week: Launching into the Future with Advanced Technologies
☰ Today in History
- Japan's primary school law is amended to provide four years of mandatory schooling
- Chicago White Sox acquire "Shoeless" Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500; Jackson becomes involved in the "Black Sox Scandal" in 1919
- Chicago Cubs use first baseman Dale Long as their first major league lefty catcher since 1906
- Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Westchester CC: Fred Couples wins the first of two Champions Tour major titles with a birdie on the third playoff hole against John Cook
- Guatemala's presidential election is won by anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo, who defeats former first lady Sandra Torres
- Gilman Marston, American Brigadier General (Union Army) and politician (R-NH), born in Orford, New Hampshire (d. 1890)
- Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut and inventor, born in Jefferson Mills, Coos County, New Hampshire (d. 1913)
- George Thoma, German cross country ski jumper (Olympic gold 1960), born in Newstadt, Germany
- Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager, born in Ödeshög, Sweden (d. 2014)
- Zakir Khan, Indian comedian (On Air with AIB), born in Indore, India

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