Archives — August 2026

Canada added three more medals to its haul at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Poznań, Poland with Sophia Jensen and Brianna Hennessy each claiming their second medal of the competition and the women's C4 crew securing bronze. Ottawa's Hennessy reaches the podium again in Poznań with a silverCBC Sports · Posted: Aug 30, 2026 1:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: August 30Listen to this articleEstimated 1 minuteThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Canada's Sophia Jensen, shown in this August 2024 file photo, added a silver to her medal haul on Sunday at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Poznań, Poland. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)Canada added three more medals to its haul at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Poznań, with Sophia Jensen and Brianna Hennessy each claiming their second medal of the competition and the women's C4 crew securing bronze.

Cheryl Williams, Unifor Local 114 member, accepted the 2026 Bud Jimmerfield Award at Unifor Canadian Council in Ottawa, recognizing a decade of work making Cascade Aerospace a safer place to work. “Health and safety leadership is rarely one big moment. It is a thousand acts of persistence, and Cheryl Williams has strung together ten years of them,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne. “Every worker who finishes their shift and goes home whole is the measure of that work. Thank you, Cheryl, for keeping prevention of workplace injury and illness at the top of the priority list where it belongs.”The Bud Jimmerfield Award recognizes members who demonstrate an unwavering commitment to preventing workplace disease, injury and death. It is awarded annually to a Unifor member who has led by example and who works to make sure every worker goes home safe and healthy. Bud Jimmerfield spent 31 years as a machinist, exposed every day to cancer-causing metalworking fluids. At 47, he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. When the compensation board denied his claim, Bud and his union fought back and won a landmark case that put toxic exposures in the national spotlight.

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that modern technologies can significantly alter the balance of forces on the battlefield, but they do not eliminate basic military calculations or the need for resources. Can Kasapoğlu, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, stated this in an interview with Ukrinform.

Looking out from the bridge of the Norwegian polar research vessel Kronprins Haakon (see main image), dense pack ice extends into the darkness in every direction. To the east, a narrow strip of purple paints the midday sky just above the horizon. It’s the first sign of daylight here in three months. Research ships rarely venture into this region – 1,000km (621 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, in the Greenland Sea – during polar night.

On Sunday 30 August 2026 Piazza Lorch in Oria (BR) will host a stop of Party Salento Show Live, an itinerant summer format combining music, live entertainment and visual technologies for an outdoor evening suitable for all ages. Performers: Massimo Manca, Mauro Stiky, Street Angel with singers, dancers and guest performers

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OTTAWA — Canada needs to make further cuts to the number of temporary residents in the country and generate better tracking data when they leave the country, the head of an expert panel on immigration said. Parisa Mahboubi chairs the C. D. Howe Institute’s immigration targets council, which includes former immigration minister Jason Kenney and top academics in the field in its membership. The council is preparing a submission for the government’s annual immigration levels consultation period.

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2027 Pokémon World Championships to Take Place in Singapore; All-New Animated Movie, ‘Pokémon: Wild Card,’ Revealed Alongside Other Announcements BELLEVUE, Wash. — Aug. 31, 2026 — It was a weekend to remember in San Francisco as Trainers from across the globe descended upon the inaugural PokémonXP event and the 2026 Pokémon World Championships, where this year’s champions were crowned while Trainers made new memories that will last a lifetime. Fans were also treated to a variety of new announcements from the closing ceremonies and from panels during the weekend.

BasketballIt was a cruel twist of fate. Just three days before the WNBA and its players landed on a new collective bargaining agreement — one that would officialize Canada’s first WNBA team’s inaugural season — the country’s national team was dealt a blow. It was eliminated from World Cup contention. And by Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello’s Australian team, no less. On Monday, WNBA will break for 2-and-a-half weeks to allow its players to compete at World Cup without CanadaMyles Dichter · for CBC Sports · Posted: Aug 30, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 30Listen to this articleEstimated 6 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Syla Swords, right, shown in this July 2024 file photo, won tournament MVP at the Olympic pre-qualifying tournament in Mexico on Sunday after averaging 14.8 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.2 assists and one steal per game. (Mark J. Terrill/The Associated Press)It was a cruel twist of fate.

Former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is seeking U. S. investment for a new defense technology fund and offering to help Washington develop drone capabilities in exchange for Patriot missile interceptors for Ukraine, he told the Financial Times in an interview published Aug. 30. The proposal comes as Fedorov has begun an international trip that has included Italy and the United States after being dismissed by President Volodymyr Zelensky as defense minister. Fedorov told the FT in Washington that he is seeking backing from venture capitalists, private investors, and U. S. technology companies for a fund that would invest in Ukrainian defense startups and create new companies focused on battlefield technologies. "This is not exactly a classic venture fund," Fedorov said in an interview. "We're writing a new history of the war. "Fedorov said the fund would initially focus on battlefield robotics, high-speed interceptor drones capable of countering Russia's newer jet-powered attack drones, and low-cost missiles equipped with artificial intelligence.

Jonatán Vadnai HUN is the new ILCA 7 Men's World Champion, sealing the title today with a 4-1 in the Final Series races for 47 points. It's the first time a Hungarian sailor has won the ILCA 7 Men's World Championship, and also the country's first-ever medal in the event. Racing started in around 7 knots of wind and flat water, quickly building to 13-14 knots with some wave as the day progressed, before settling into a more variable range of 7-14 knots.

Geniatech has achieved a breakthrough in full-color e-paper interaction by enabling dynamic special-effect transitions during partial refreshes—a capability previously unavailable in commercial e-paper displays. Geniatech’s engineering team aimed to rethink the conventional understanding of e-paper display capabilities. Leveraging an FPGA platform, they devised a novel method that merges 8-bit grayscale template-mapped phase shifting with a dual-dimension lookup table algorithm. This innovation allows dynamic transition effects to be seamlessly integrated into the partial refresh process, achieving a unique blend of “partial refresh” and “animated transition effects” not seen before in e-paper technology.

It might be hard to picture these days, when even a "light" superhero year still means three or four massive-budget DC or Marvel adaptations. But there was a time when comic-book heroes appeared on movie screens only sparingly — particularly between the waning days of old serials and the premiere of Superman in 1978. Superman was advertised as a movie that would allow audiences to believe a man could fly, and they did. It was the second-biggest box-office hit of the year. It also set the big-screen template for superhero origin stories. The film follows Superman's entire backstory, from his brief time as a newborn on the dying planet Krypton to his discovery on Earth by a kindly couple and upbringing as a not-so-ordinary Kansas farm boy. As an adult, Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) sets out for the big city of Metropolis, where he lives a double life as a bumbling newspaper reporter and a costumed hero fighting for justice. He crosses paths with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder), who becomes his great love, and Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman), who becomes his great enemy. It's a lot of movie.

Stew Leonard Jr. is greeted like a celebrity as he makes his way through his family's business. Known as Connecticut's "Disneyland of grocery stores," Leonard's locations come complete with animatronics, petting zoos, and costumed mascots. Every few feet, a customer does a double-take and rushes over. Mostly, they want to say hello or ask for a selfie. A few have constructive criticism to share. Over by the Stew Leonard's Farm Fresh Five, a band of singing milk cartons, a mom with two young kids approaches him. She has an idea to make the restrooms more family-friendly, showing a picture of a rest stop bathroom with child-sized toilets and superior design. Stew Jr. tells her to forward the picture to his team. Stew Jr. has been president of the small-but-mighty grocery empire since 1982, for 44 of the company's 57 years. He moves with the ease of a graduating senior walking their high school halls: He knows where everyone and everything is, and they know him. But Stew Jr. won't be the face of Stew's for much longer. Walking with Stew Jr., but going mostly unrecognized, are his successors.

Just 24 hours after Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a sign proclaiming Lake Ontario is “now and forever,” the province launched a review after some agency websites displayed “Lake America” in their mapping applications. Stephen Crawford, minister of public and business service delivery and procurement, said on X that some of the websites pull map data directly from Google Maps. “Following recent changes by Google, we’re actively reviewing our websites to make sure they all identify Lake Ontario by its correct name: Lake Ontario,” Crawford wrote. The post came after people on social media noticed that maps on sites including Hydro One, Metrolinx, Infrastructure Ontario and the LCBO all displayed “Lake America.”The new name came after U. S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order late this week amid the ongoing trade war between Canada and the U. S., as well as harsh words by Ford after trade talks fell apart last weekend. Story continues below advertisement