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October 20, 2026
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☰ Top Movies
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62Verity$65,927,001
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84Heart of the Beast$58,228,952
9-Jailer 2$3,260,000
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☰ Spotify Canada
1=Tate McRae : Housewife
2+1Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
3-1Zach Bryan : Lies
4=ADÉLA : Nicole Kidman
5+1STELLA LEFTY : Boston
6+7The Killers : Mr. Brightside
7-2Olivia Rodrigo : expectations
8+2Olivia Rodrigo : stupid song
9+2Ashe : Stop The Wedding!
10+2Olivia Dean : Man I Need
11+4ADÉLA : Ain't In LA
12+2Olivia Rodrigo : the cure
13-6Taylor Swift : Patient Zero
14-5Malcolm Todd : Earrings
15+7Whiskey Myers : Broken Window Serenade
16+3The Goo Goo Dolls : Iris
17-9Zach Bryan : Lodi When
18-2Drake : Janice STFU
19-1Drake : Quebec
20-3Alex Warren : Ordinary
21=P!nk : Just Give Me a Reason
22+4Fleetwood Mac : Dreams - 2001 Remaster
23-3Cameron Whitcomb : Kingdom of Fear
☰ Standings
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7Wild6-2-113
8Lightning6-2-012
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☰ slashdot
- AMD Is Bringing FSR 4.1 to Xbox Consoles and Handhelds
- DHS Lied About Why It Wanted To Search Activist's GrapheneOS Phone
- OpenBSD 8.0 Released
- Meta Muse Exposes Users' Personal, Business Secrets When They Share Conversations
- US Bans DeepSeek From Government Use
☰ sportsnet
- Penguins’ Ben Kindel in stable condition after suffering medical episode on plane
- ‘Got to turn the page’: Knies still navigating shock of Maple Leafs trade
- How World Series-bound Rays found ‘a source of inspiration’ in 2025 Blue Jays
- NBA Season Opener on Sportsnet: Celtics vs. Pistons
- How Gavin McKenna’s first 10 games compare to other first-overall picks
☰ espn
- Follow live: Big second quarter propels Celtics into the lead in season opener against Pistons
- Silver: 'No rules issue' with LeBron's helicopter commute
- Reports: NFL won't punish Eagles for letting Hurts play with blood clot
- WR McLaurin has season-ending knee injury, Commanders' Quinn says
- Source: Giants releasing Harris amid ongoing RB woes
☰ global
- Rally urges New Brunswick government to rethink energy plans
- Justice minister orders review of decades-old unsolved murder investigation in P.E.I.
- Lions to start QB Salter vs. Blue Bombers
- Federal government says it will take FSIN to court to repay $12.4M in spending
- Police search for suspect after 23-year-old man killed in Winnipeg
☰ Ars Technica
- JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service
- Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
- Gemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars
- OpenBSD 8.0 arrives with security record still intact
- The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
☰ nyt world
- France Protests Show Europe’s Shift Away From Centrist Politics
- Student Protesters in France Have a Strange New Slogan. What Does It Mean?
- Robert Kabera, Rwandan Government Critic, Beheaded in Uganda
- Yemeni City of Taiz Running Out of Essentials as Houthis Close in
- 178 Years After Banning Slavery, France Scraps ‘Code Noir’ Rules That Governed It
☰ cbc
- No Canada-U.S. trade deal expected before American midterm elections: sources
- Alberta referendum votes for 9 questions still being tallied after projected win for 'remain' in Canada side
- Satellite images reveal Wainwright, Alta., fire devastation
- Juror sends mysterious letter to jailed man he just helped convict of murder in Windsor, Ont.
- Mother of soldier killed in CFB Wainwright fire says her 'beautiful son' wanted to protect Canada
☰ space
- Using eyedrops in space—wearable patch offers a new approach
- NASA experimental Mars helicopter blade designs target longer flights
- Near miss: Indonesia probes crash of suspected Chinese rocket fragment
- A historical society with pilot's help bought Neil Armstrong's boyhood home and will offer tours
- Japan's MMX mission aims to swipe soil samples from Mars's moon Phobos
☰ science daily
- Scientists finally uncover why statins can cause muscle pain
- Hurricane warning maps are improving, but a dangerous problem remains
- Astronomers uncover new secrets of the Universe’s first five minutes
- Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and cancer survival
- Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic “squid” unlike anything ever seen
☰ 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
- Cats And Their Owners Seem to Share A Weird, Hormonal Connection
- Ultraprocessed Food May Be Silently Damaging Your Brain's Blood Vessels
- Water May Be a Hidden Trigger Behind The Spread of Alzheimer's in The Brain
- Microplastics Aren't Inert After All: In Water, They Make DNA-Damaging Free Radicals
☰ Weather Forecast
Wed 21 Oct

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high: 11°C
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high: 18°C
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high: 14°C
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high: 16°C
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high: 18°C
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high: 14°C
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high: 14°C
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high: 11°C
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high: 17°C
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high: 16°C
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high: 11°C
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high: 13°C
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high: 11°C
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high: 11°C
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high: 14°C
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high: 10°C
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high: 10°C
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high: 13°C
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high: 18°C
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Wed 21 Oct

high: 10°C
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high: 11°C
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high: 7°C
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high: 10°C
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high: 12°C
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Wed 21 Oct

high: 14°C
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high: 13°C
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 Fri 23 Oct

high: 12°C
Cloudy
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high: 11°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
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high: 12°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
Wed 21 Oct

high: 19°C
Sunny
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high: 16°C
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high: 6°C
Rain
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high: 2°C
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high: -1°C
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☰ Stocks ⚙
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DOW 52,495.88 +529.85   +1.02%
NASDAQ 29,490.28 -39.06   -0.13%
AAPL 339.71 -3.28   -0.96%
GOOG 336.37 -3.83   -1.13%
MSFT 532.03 -1.57   -0.29%
AMZN 262.74 +0.25   +0.10%
META 694.09 -10.86   -1.54%
NVDA 216.47 +0.01   +0.00%
TESLA 373.80 +5.70   +1.55%
NFLX 68.74 +0.05   +0.07%
AMD 534.66 -3.10   -0.58%
INTC 91.66 0.00   0.00%
QCOM 175.70 +2.19   +1.26%
NXP 237.61 +7.47   +3.25%
AVGO 334.44 -0.19   -0.06%
IBM 242.01 +5.57   +2.36%
CSCO 106.71 +0.20   +0.19%
ORCL 131.01 +1.39   +1.07%
CRM 242.49 +0.02   +0.01%
ADBE 256.73 +9.65   +3.90%
CIEN 341.84 -2.44   -0.71%
JPM 335.46 +1.87   +0.56%
BAC 50.65 +0.26   +0.52%
GS 885.16 +9.83   +1.12%
VISA 407.10 +4.19   +1.04%
MA 620.52 +4.24   +0.69%
WMT 117.90 0.00   0.00%
KO 93.49 +0.07   +0.07%
PEP 134.03 +0.46   +0.34%
DIS 111.64 +2.06   +1.88%
MCD 246.55 +3.91   +1.61%
NKE 37.89 +0.66   +1.79%
BA 190.50 -0.97   -0.51%
XOM 177.83 -0.04   -0.02%
CVX 225.72 +1.26   +0.56%
☰ Word of the Day
spizzerinctum

noun: Energy, courage, and determination.
☰ Thought of the Day
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others" - Confucius, from The Analects of Confucius
☰ Born on this day
- Andrea Della Robbia, Italian sculptor, nephew of Luca, born in Florence (d. 1525)
- Ellen Hardin Walworth, American author, lawyer, activist, and founding member of Daughters of the American Revolution, born in Jacksonville, Illinois (d. 1915)
- Jean-Pierre Melville, French filmmaker (A Cop), born in Paris, France (d. 1973)
- Earl Hindman, American actor (Home Improvement - "Wilson"; Ryan's Hope, 1975-89 - "Bob Reid"), born in Bisbee, Arizona (d. 2003)
- Shuping Wang, Chinese doctor who exposed China's HIV crisis, born in Fugou County, Henan, China (d. 2019)
- Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress (Sailor Moon), born in Maruko, Japan
- Kamala Harris, American lawyer, politician and 49th Vice President of the United States (2021-) who was the 1st African-American, Asian-American attorney general of California, born in Oakland, California
- Chantel Tremitiere, American WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs), born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania
☰ Weather News
- El Nino looms large over U.S. Winter Outlook
- Ocean Facts: What are Kelvin waves?
- Aerial images of damage from #Isaias now available online
☰ Today in History
- Great General Strike in Russia begins and lasts 11 days
- Anti-fascist People's Front forms in Brussels
- MLB New York Yankees begin a 16-game exhibition tour in Japan
- Baseball World Series: Cincinnati beats A's 2-1 at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum to sweep Oakland and win Reds' fifth title; MVP: Reds' pitcher José Rijo
- Demolition crews remove facade of the East Wing of the White House for construction of a new ballroom, despite initial announcement that the existing building would not be touched
- Adelaide Hall, American-English musical theatre, cabaret, and jazz singer (Cotton Club; "Creole Love Call" with Duke Ellington), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1993)
- Janet Jagan [née Rosenberg], America-born Guyanese politician and the first female president of Guyana (1997-99), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2009)
- Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano, born in Zagreb, Croatia
- Susan Tully, British television director and actress (Michelle Fowler in "EastEnders"), born in London
- Willis McGahee, American football running back (Pro Bowl 2007, 11; Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos), born in Miami, Florida

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