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February 23, 2026
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☰ Spotify Canada
1=Bad Bunny : DtMF
2=Olivia Dean : Man I Need
3=Bad Bunny : Tití Me Preguntó
4+5Djo : End of Beginning
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6+2Alex Warren : Ordinary
7-3Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
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14-2RAYE : WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!
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17+18Jin : Don’t Say You Love Me
18=sombr : Homewrecker
19=Don Toliver : E85
20-5Bruno Mars : I Just Might
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☰ slashdot
- Linus Torvalds: Someone 'More Competent Who Isn't Afraid of Numbers Past the Teens' Will Take Over Linux One Day
- 'How Many AIs Does It Take To Read a PDF?'
- Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
- Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
- PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump
☰ cbc sports
- Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from left leg being amputated following Olympic crash
- Olympic medallists Gilles, Poirier headline Canadian world championship team
- IPC stands firm on Russian athletes competing amid boycott warnings
- NHL's return to the Olympics lives up to the hype and sets the stage for 2028 World Cup of Hockey
- 'I thought it was going to turn out different': The agony of what ifs for Canadian men's hockey team
☰ espn
- We predicted the 12-man USA basketball roster in the 2028 Olympics
- USA Basketball's road to 2028: New era, new coach, new decisions
- Duke back atop AP men's poll thanks to U-M win
- Vonn says surgery saved her from leg amputation
- NFL mulls allowing replay officials to throw flags
☰ global
- Inquest called into 2019 death of Kingston man after encounter with police
- OpenAI reps summoned to Ottawa to discuss concerns following Tumbler Ridge shooting
- ANALYSIS: Winnipeg Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck cements status as NHL’s top Goalie
- What to know if you’re stuck or have an upcoming flight to Puerto Vallarta
- ‘Frightening’: B.C. man’s photos capture violence, chaos in Puerto Vallarta
☰ Ars Technica
- New Microsoft gaming chief has "no tolerance for bad AI"
- The 2026 Mazda CX-5, driven: It got bigger; plus, radical tech upgrade
- AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
- Review: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms brings back that Westeros magic
- The first cars bold enough to drive themselves
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☰ cbc
- More than 26,000 Canadians registered in Mexico, Anand says, as country reels from wave of violence
- N.S. budget contains major cuts as province confronts $1.2B deficit
- Moroun donated $1M US to Trump-supporting super PAC before Gordie Howe bridge threats
- Travel bans, flight cancellations pile up as winter storm blasts U.S. northeast
- Ford says 'walls closing in' on Trump after SCOTUS strikes down tariffs
☰ space
- NASA will return its moon rocket to the hangar for more repairs before astronauts strap in
- NASA moon rocket hit by new problem, putting March launch with astronauts in jeopardy
- SpaceX rocket left behind a plume of chemical pollution as it burnt up in the atmosphere
- NASA targets March for first moon mission by Artemis astronauts after fueling test success
- Atom-thin electronics withstand space radiation, potentially surviving for centuries in orbit
☰ science daily
- Young Mars volcano hides a powerful magma engine beneath the surface
- A hidden force beneath the Atlantic ripped open a 500 kilometer canyon
- Less sugar as a baby, fewer heart attacks as an adult
- Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years
- Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia
☰ new scientist
- Birdwatching may reshape the brain and build its buffer against ageing
- Brutal Iron Age massacre may have targeted women and children
- It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day
- Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males or workers
- A horse's whinny is unlike any other sound in nature
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☰ Weather Forecast
Tue 24 Feb

high: -13°C
Mainly cloudy
 Wed 25 Feb

high: -1°C
Periods of snow
 Thu 26 Feb

high: -3°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 30%
 Fri 27 Feb

high: 1°C
Cloudy
 Sat 28 Feb

high: 4°C
Chance of flurries or rain showers
pop: 30%
Tue 24 Feb

high: -6°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 25 Feb

high: 1°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Thu 26 Feb

high: 0°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 30%
 Fri 27 Feb

high: 4°C
Cloudy
 Sat 28 Feb

high: 4°C
Cloudy
Tue 24 Feb

high: -8°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 25 Feb

high: -2°C
Periods of snow
 Thu 26 Feb

high: -1°C
Sunny
 Fri 27 Feb

high: 1°C
Sunny
 Sat 28 Feb

high: 4°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
Tue 24 Feb

high: -6°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 25 Feb

high: -7°C
Periods of snow
 Thu 26 Feb

high: -2°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 27 Feb

high: 0°C
Sunny
 Sat 28 Feb

high: 2°C
Snow or rain
Tue 24 Feb

high: -2°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 30%
 Wed 25 Feb

high: -3°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Thu 26 Feb

high: 2°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Fri 27 Feb

high: -2°C
Flurries
 Sat 28 Feb

high: 7°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Tue 24 Feb

high: -7°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Wed 25 Feb

high: -6°C
Periods of snow
 Thu 26 Feb

high: -2°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Fri 27 Feb

high: -4°C
Sunny
 Sat 28 Feb

high: 3°C
Chance of flurries or rain showers
pop: 30%
Tue 24 Feb

high: 9°C
Clearing
 Wed 25 Feb

high: 9°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Thu 26 Feb

high: 10°C
Periods of rain
 Fri 27 Feb

high: 9°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sat 28 Feb

high: 9°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Tue 24 Feb

high: 2°C
Sunny
 Wed 25 Feb

high: 7°C
Sunny
 Thu 26 Feb

high: 7°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 27 Feb

high: -12°C
Snow
 Sat 28 Feb

high: -8°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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AMZN 204.91 -5.26   -2.50%
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TESLA 396.30 -15.41   -3.74%
NFLX 76.09 -2.60   -3.30%
AMD 195.53 -4.60   -2.30%
INTC 43.48 -0.64   -1.46%
QCOM 140.07 -2.81   -1.97%
NXP 228.77 -3.47   -1.49%
AVGO 328.67 -3.92   -1.18%
IBM 223.07 -34.21   -13.30%
CSCO 77.82 -1.40   -1.77%
ORCL 140.39 -7.71   -5.21%
CRM 177.77 -7.45   -4.02%
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☰ Word of the Day
culminate

verb (KUL-muh-nayt)

To culminate is to reach the end or the final result of something. Culminate is usually used with in or with.

☰ Thought of the Day
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
☰ Born on this day
- George Washington Hewitt, American composer, born in New York City (d. 1893)
- George Frederic Watts, British painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement ("Hope"; "Love and Life"), born in London (d. 1904)
- Richard Goolden, British actor (Two Days to Live, School for Husbands), born in London, England (d. 1981)
- Walter Allen, English writer and literary critic, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1995)
- John St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan, English peer (St Michael's Mount), born in London (d. 2013)
- Diane Varsi, American actress (Allison-Peyton Place, Bloody Mama), born in San Mateo California (d. 1992)
- Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician, co-founder of the Danish People's Party, born in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Debbie Friedman, American singer-songwriter and arranger of Jewish religious music ("Mi Shebeirach"), born in Utica, New York (d. 2011)
☰ Weather News
- Science held in outdoor classroom continues to evolve
- Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 1st Superintendent of the U.S. Survey of the Coast, 1841
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☰ Today in History
- Great Britain and Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
- Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
- A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
- 56th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt Jr. breaks a 55-race winless streak to win his 2nd Great American Race
- Sri Lanka becomes first Asian cricket team to clinch a Test series in South Africa chasing down 197 in the 2nd Test in Port Elizabeth; Kusal Mendis 84no, Oshada Fernando 75no
- Nicolas Fouquet, French politician and Superintendent of Finances (1653-61) who became fabulously wealthy and later imprisoned for maladministration of state funds, born in Paris (d. 1680)
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German Jewish banker and founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, born in Frankfurt (d. 1812)
- John Sutter, German-Swiss-American colonist who established Sutter's Fort in what is now Sacramento and where gold was first discovered in California, born in Kandern, Margraviate of Baden, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1880)
- Donna J. Stone, American poet (Wielder of Words), born in Ohio (d. 1994)
- Shakira Caine, British-Guyanese actress and model (Man Who Would Be King), born in St. Cuthbert's Mission, British Guiana

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