Premier David Eby is weighing a snap provincial election that could collide with British Columbia's municipal campaign, running Sept. 19 to Oct. 17. Local politicians' union president Cori Ramsay says overlapping votes would shortchange residents choosing among 3,500 local candidates.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

TORONTO — Actor Rémi Goulet was on the set of Canadian hockey movie "Major Junior" when a producer mentioned he was working on a film about the late Formula One…

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Von der Leyen wants Canada to become the EU's first "associate member," as Carney pushes deeper trade and defence ties in Strasbourg. Elsewhere: a B.C. election could collide with municipal races, Hamed Shafia faces a parole hearing, and Ikea leans on used furniture and dollar breakfasts to court squeezed shoppers.

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Sean Millington called himself a journeyman with a 50-50 shot at the Hall. He rushed for 6,086 yards, won two Grey Cups and nearly got cut in 1993 before becoming a CFL all-star by season's end.

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After 56 years as chairman, Warren Buffett is moving to chairman emeritus, handing the title to son Howard while Greg Abel runs the company. Berkshire shares dipped before the bell, even as Buffett's tenure as CEO nearly doubled the S&P 500's returns.

— via PBS NewsHour, Michelle Chapman, Associated Press

A new lawsuit says federal officers stationed near polling places would count as illegal voter intimidation. It targets repeated suggestions from the Trump administration that agents could show up on Election Day.

— via NPR, Jude Joffe-Block

A bill meant to show patients exactly where their generic drugs are made just lost its two toughest provisions before heading to a full Senate vote. Gone: a factory ID code tying labels to FDA inspection records, and a one-year deadline, now stretched to five.

— via ProPublica, Naisha Roy

Over 600,000 Iranians have registered for a new volunteer militia, state media say, as Tehran stages its biggest rally since the U.S. and Israel struck in February. Iran also claims a fresh tanker attack in the Strait of Hormuz, where shipping traffic remains about 90% below prewar levels.

— via PBS NewsHour, Nasser Karimi, Associated Press

A health insurance startup founded in 2019, not an AI agent play, just landed a $200 million Series C plus a $400 million tender offer at a $2.7 billion valuation. Angle Health says it's already profitable, serving over 5,000 small businesses with level-funded plans.

— via TechCrunch, Julie Bort

Automattic names Jeremy Klaperman interim CFO days after a failed board coup ousted CEO Matt Mullenweg, who then pushed out the directors who voted him out along with CFO Mark Davies and legal chief Andy Missan. Mullenweg says he has "100% confidence" in the company's finances, with a new legal chief and board picks still to come.

— via TechCrunch, Sarah Perez

Apple, Google and WhatsApp all promise "trusted execution environments" keep your AI-processed messages private on their servers, but these systems have been cracked repeatedly and rely on engineering guarantees, not math. That distinction matters: unlike true end-to-end encryption, a TEE should never receive your data automatically.

— via EFF, Erica Portnoy

Albania will become the 73rd nation to sign the Artemis Accords at a NASA Headquarters ceremony Monday. The accords, launched in 2020 by eight founding nations, now govern how signatory countries coordinate lunar and Mars exploration.

— via NASA Breaking News, Jennifer M. Dooren

If the universe loops back on itself, a starship flying far enough in one direction could end up right back where it started: same place, different time. Cosmologists are now hunting for the faint patterns in the sky that would prove it.

— via Universe Today, Bruce Dorminey

Five scorched, ultra-short-period rocky worlds are the test cases: models show most end up as bare rock, with global melt fractions capping out at 20% or less. One gas, S2, spikes when the surface is solid rather than molten, giving JWST a possible tracer to tell which interior state a planet is really in before its atmosphere burns away.

— via arXiv — Astro-ph, Mariana Sastre, Tim Lichtenberg, Lisa Dang, Anjali Piette, Haiyang S. Wang, Mercedes L'opez-Morales, Thomas Wilson, Charles-'Edouard Boukar'e, Mahesh Herath, Nicolas Cowan, Md Abdullah Al Zaman, Madyson G. Barber, Casey Brinkman-Traverse, Nicholas Connors, Ian Crossfield, Lina D'Aoust, Oliver Herbort, Leoni Janssen, Mathilde Kervazo, Owen Lammert, Yamila Miguel, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Allona Vazan, Joost P. Wardenier, Sebastian Zieba

Cellphone data from 11 U.S. metro areas shows traveling farther exposes people to more politically mixed places, but visiting more different kinds of spots doesn't cut segregation and can deepen it. Community spots and social businesses skew left-leaning visitors regardless of who lives nearby.

— via arXiv — Physics, Marco Tonin, Michele Tizzoni, Bruno Lepri, Esteban Moro

In roughly 36% of cases where solar flares seem to trigger sudden magnetic-field shifts, the "change" may just be flare heating messing with how light escapes the sun's atmosphere. New inversions and 3D simulations show cold, ejected material and shifting line-formation depths can mimic real magnetic evolution, meaning current methods can't always tell fact from artifact.

— via arXiv — Astro-ph, Dimitri Arramy, Jaime de la Cruz Rodr'iguez, Adur Pastor Yabar, Jorrit Leenaarts

A new likelihood method skips binning time data altogether, building probabilities event by event to pin down the g factor in perturbed angular distribution experiments. Tested against simulated data, it beats traditional binned analysis on low-statistics datasets, though results often come out multimodal rather than the usual tidy Gaussian curve.

— via arXiv — Physics, Franziskus von Spee

MariaDB Community Server 13.0 is now GA, adding Oracle-style REF CURSOR and RECORD types to ease PL/SQL migrations. UPDATE statements can now return modified rows via RETURNING, and query hints get smarter with automatic query block naming.

— via InfoQ, Sergio De Simone