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May 15, 2026
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☰ Spotify Canada
1=Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
2=Dominic Fike : Babydoll
3+1Malcolm Todd : Earrings
4+3Michael Jackson : Billie Jean
5-2Justin Bieber : Beauty And A Beat
6=Ella Langley : Be Her
7-2Olivia Rodrigo : drop dead
8+2Olivia Dean : Man I Need
9=Noah Kahan : Doors
10+2The Killers : Mr. Brightside
11-3Justin Bieber : DAISIES
12+1Alex Warren : Ordinary
13+1PinkPantheress : Stateside + Zara Larsson
14-3Bella Kay : iloveitiloveitiloveit
15+2The Goo Goo Dolls : Iris
16-1STELLA LEFTY : Boston
17+4Michael Jackson : Beat It
18-2Tame Impala : Dracula - JENNIE Remix
19+12Vance Joy : Riptide
20+3sombr : back to friends
21-1Djo : End of Beginning
22-3Taylor Swift : The Fate of Ophelia
23-5Noah Kahan : The Great Divide
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☰ slashdot
- SpaceX Unveils Sweeping Starship V3 Upgrades
- Musk Accused of 'Selective Amnesia', Altman of Lying As OpenAI Trial Nears End
- UK Antitrust Regulator Is Officially Investigating Microsoft Office
- AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Team Up To Eliminate 'Dead Zones' Across US
- Writers Are Fleeing the Substack Tax
☰ cbc sports
- 'Miracle in Laval': How the Montreal Victoire came back to win Game 1 of the Walter Cup final
- No more crowdfunding and increased infrastructure: NSOs cautiously plan for federal funding boost
- Roque's OT winner helps Victoire edge Charge in Game 1 of all-Canadian Walter Cup final
- Habs reclaim series lead with 6-3 victory over the Sabres in Game 5
- Alphonso Davies's return to Canadian lineup complicated by club team Bayern Munich's reported resistance
☰ espn
- Let's overreact to the NFL schedule release: Tough...
- 2026 NFL schedule release: Tracking all 32 teams a...
- Pats-Seahawks SB rematch to kick off '26 season
- Knights finish off Ducks in 6 to make West finals
- Scheffler among largest throng atop PGA since '69
☰ global
- Ontario government says 3 accidentally released inmates still missing
- Widespread power outages in Western Manitoba as wind wreaks havoc on crews
- Red Deer teens face assault charges after attack caught on camera
- Day parole revoked for Manitoba killer who fabricated Metis ancestry
- The Curator: 10 genius home organization products you didn’t know you needed
☰ Ars Technica
- Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype
- Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
- Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
- Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
- Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs
☰ nyt world
- How a Drug Cartel Made a Mexican State Its Tool
- Nvidia’s Future in China Remains Unclear After Trump-Xi Summit
- Enter the Killer Robots: The Ukrainian Forging the Future of Warfare
- Australian Jews Testify on Experiences of Antisemitism in Bondi Beach Inquiry
- Inside the Congolese Hotel Where Trump Deported 15 U.S. Migrants
☰ cbc
- Why the U.S. is noticing this Canadian security bill
- Military reprimanded soldiers who raised concerns about monitoring Canadians online during COVID-19
- How much damage have Canada's booze bans done to the U.S. wine industry?
- At least 24 killed, including 3 children, in Russian strike on Kyiv apartment block
- More kids are running marathons. A teen's death reignites a debate about the risks
☰ space
- Mathematical method calculates most efficient Earth-moon route yet
- Will future missions to the moon be sustainable? It may depend on whom you ask
- NASA bets big on nuclear engines to cut journey times to Mars
- Resilient quantum sensor monitors Earth's magnetic field from space for 10 months
- Katalyst wraps testing at NASA Goddard for Swift boost mission
☰ science daily
- A grad student’s wild idea sparks a major aging breakthrough
- A 47-year study reveals when strength and fitness start to fade
- Paleontology rocked by discovery of organic molecules in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones
- Who are the Japanese? Huge DNA discovery rewrites history
- Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy
☰ new scientist
- Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists
- Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up?
- Rebooting stem cells builds aged muscles and assists injury recovery
- 3 things you need to know about quantum computers, from an expert
- Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release methane 'fire ice'
☰ science alert
- NASA's Psyche Is About to Use Mars as a Slingshot to a Rare Metal Asteroid
- Speaking Two Languages May Affect Dementia Risk in an Unexpected Way
- Roots of Many Miscarriages Could Trace Back To Before The Mother Is Even Born
- Your Eyes Could Reveal Your Risk of Osteoporosis, Study Finds
☰ Weather Forecast
Sat 16 May

high: 23°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
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high: 21°C
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high: 25°C
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high: 30°C
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pop: 30%
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high: 25°C
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Sat 16 May

high: 22°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
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high: 23°C
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 Mon 18 May

high: 25°C
Sunny
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high: 29°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Wed 20 May

high: 23°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
Sat 16 May

high: 23°C
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high: 23°C
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high: 25°C
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high: 29°C
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high: 25°C
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pop: 60%
Sat 16 May

high: 20°C
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 Sun 17 May

high: 18°C
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pop: 60%
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high: 20°C
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high: 20°C
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pop: 60%
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high: 20°C
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pop: 60%
Sat 16 May

high: 25°C
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high: 26°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Mon 18 May

high: 23°C
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high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Wed 20 May

high: 17°C
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Sat 16 May

high: 19°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sun 17 May

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
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high: 16°C
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high: 10°C
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high: 16°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Fri 15 May

high: 12°C
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high: 15°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Sun 17 May

high: 17°C
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 Mon 18 May

high: 17°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: 17°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
Fri 15 May

high: 14°C
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pop: 30%
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high: 4°C
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high: 4°C
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high: 10°C
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 Tue 19 May

high: 15°C
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META 618.43 +1.92   +0.31%
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TESLA 443.31 -1.96   -0.44%
NFLX 86.92 -0.64   -0.73%
AMD 449.64 +4.27   +0.96%
INTC 115.91 -4.35   -3.62%
QCOM 199.95 -13.23   -6.21%
NXP 294.04 -4.25   -1.42%
AVGO 439.69 +22.95   +5.51%
IBM 218.45 +3.83   +1.78%
CSCO 115.55 +13.57   +13.31%
ORCL 195.65 +5.88   +3.10%
CRM 167.60 +1.76   +1.06%
ADBE 237.04 +1.00   +0.42%
CIEN 591.56 +13.45   +2.33%
JPM 299.97 -0.34   -0.11%
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CVX 186.60 +0.66   +0.35%
☰ Word of the Day
tortuous

adjective (TOR-chuh-wus)

Tortuous describes something that has many literal or figurative twists and turns.

☰ Thought of the Day
"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe." - Oprah Winfrey
☰ Born on this day
- Levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and Thomas Jefferson's first attorney general, born in Massachusetts Bay, British America (d. 1820)
- John Reeves Ellerman, British accountant, businessman, and shipping magnate, born in Kingston upon Hull, England (d. 1933)
- Alexis Kagame, Rwandan philosopher, historian, poet and Tutsi intellectual and cultural leader, born in Kiyanza, Rwanda, German East Africa (d. 1981)
- Doug Lowe, Australian politician (35th Premier of Tasmania, 1977-81), born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- (Dennis) "Fergie" Frederiksen, American rock singerr (Toto, 1984-85), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 2014)
- George Brett, American Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (13 x MLB All Star; World Series 1985; AL MVP 1980; KC Royals), born in Glen Dale, West Virginia
- Keith Tower, NBA center (LA Clippers)
- Cory Philpot, CFL running back (BC Lions)
☰ Weather News
- NOAA environmental data heads to the cloud for fast, on-demand public access
- NOAA research offers roadmap to improve West Nile virus forecasts, prevention
- Behind every impactful NOAA Ocean Guardian School project is an Ocean Guardian teacher
☰ Today in History
- Parliament of Paris appoints 8-year old Louis XIII as French King, following the assassination of his father Henry IV; Louis' mother and Henry's widow Marie de' Medici serves as regent until 1617
- Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Fort Darling), Virginia
- 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- Hollywood fixer Anthony Pellicano is found guilty of 76 counts, including racketeering, wiretapping and wire fraud
- Pope Francis canonizes Dutch Roman Catholic priest and anti-Nazi activist Titus Brandsma (1881-1942) as a saint
- James Mason, British actor (Lolita, North by Northwest, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil), born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire (d. 1984)
- Paul A. Samuelson, American economist (1970 Nobel Prize for Economics, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal), born in Gary, Indiana (d. 2009)
- Johnny Walker [Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi], Indian actor (Madhumati, Chachi 420), born in Indore, British India (d. 2003)
- Gunilla Hutton, Swedish-American actress (Hee Haw, Petticoat Junction), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
- Andrew Eldritch, British rock singer-songwriter (Sisters of Mercy - Walk Away; Black Planet), born in Ely, England

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