US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has built a vast digital surveillance system that gives it access to the personal details of almost every person in America, a two-year investigation by Georgetown University law center has found. Researchers from the Center on Privacy & Technology on Tuesday released one of …
Read More »RBC and CIBC join banking group helping to finance Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter
Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce are lining up behind Elon Musk’s US$44-billion takeover of Twitter Inc., with the two Canadian banks putting US$1.15-billion into the lowest-risk loan to the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer. Mr. Musk announced a deal to buy social-media platform Twitter on …
Read More »Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine
Placeholder while article actions load On March 8, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, …
Read More »The big idea: should we embrace a cashless society?
How do you like to pay? Do you prefer to tap, wave, insert, single-click or double-click – or are you a hold out for hard cash? If it’s the latter, you’re fast becoming the exception. Between our growing enthusiasm for online shopping, the ease and speed with which we can …
Read More »‘That’s it? It’s over? I was 30. What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on
In her classic memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, Viv Albertine recounts not only the time she spent as a punk during the 1970s in her pioneering band the Slits, but also documents her life after the band had ended. This is unusual. Most music books …
Read More »Why some RBC customers were wondering where their money went | CBC News
UPDATE: On Friday evening, several hours after this story was initially published, RBC issued a statement to CBC News saying it resolved a technical issue involving some auto-deposit e-transfers and that the funds are now in customers’ accounts. It was a surprising discovery for Tanya Shields first thing Friday morning. The …
Read More »Money for nothing: receipt for ‘invisible art’ sells for $1.2m
How much would you pay for nothing? For one private European art collector, it is $1.2m. That’s the amount paid at a recent Sotheby’s auction in Paris for a receipt written by the French artist Yves Klein to prove the ownership of one of his “invisible art” pieces – now …
Read More »Sports Are Great Because They’re Pointless
“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. Even though I’ve never lived in Chicago, I have a soft spot for the …
Read More »Mark Wahlberg’s 20 best films – ranked!
You will not remember this awful remake, for good reason. While the original was a classic piece of British cinema famed for its ambiguous (and literal) cliffhanger ending, this was a charmless hunk of dreck that ends with – no joke – Seth Green buying a set of speakers designed …
Read More »This is as good as movies are going to get
Are you one of the people who hates Hollywood because Hollywood only serves up superhero movies and sequels … most of which are sequels to superhero movies? Well, here’s some encouraging news: Two of the highest-grossing movies of 2022 are romantic comedies: The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing …
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