Archives — August 2026

RCIPosted: August 28, 2026 9:35 AMCBC News with files from Reuters and The Canadian PressCanada's economy rebounded sharply in the second quarter, thanks to a jump in exports and stronger domestic investment, according to Statistics Canada data. The economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.3 per cent in the second quarter. For the month of June, GDP was up 0.3 per cent. Exports rose 3.6 per cent according to the data agency, largely because of higher auto exports.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani launched a Business Advisory Council on Thursday with 15 leaders spanning finance, real estate, technology, sports, retail, food, and health care, aiming to strengthen the city’s economic strategy. The council will meet quarterly with the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su to advise on economic development policy and help shape New York’s competitive edge in key sectors. The inaugural members include Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani; Kruti Patel Goyal, CEO of Etsy; Robert Wolf, former chairman and CEO of UBS Americas; Scott Rechler, chairman and CEO of RXR; Marcus Samuelsson, award-winning chef and restaurateur; and others from banking, health care, venture capital, real estate, and entertainment. Keia Clarke, CEO of the New York Liberty, also joins the council, bringing the perspective of sports and entertainment leadership.

Published: August 28, 2026 at 12:59a.m. EDTCanada's Trae Bell-Haynes (2) battles with Bahamas’ Jaraum Burrows (15) during first half FIBA World Cup qualifiers action in Toronto on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima (Eduardo Lima) PANAMA CITY — Trae Bell-Haynes led the way with 18 points and 11 assists as Canada defeated Panama 86-66 in FIBA World Cup Americas qualiyfing action on Thursday. Marcus Carr added 15 points and 12 assists for fifth-ranked Canada, which improved to 7-0 and sits atop Group F. Kelly Olynyk, the only active NBA player in Canada’s lineup for this game, had eight points and five rebounds. Luis Rodriguez Jr. led 56th-ranked Panama with 17 points, six rebounds and five steals. The three best teams in each of the two remaining groups and the best overall fourth-place team will qualify for the 2027 World Cup in Qatar. The Canadians will next host eighth-ranked Argentina in Quebec City on Monday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 27, 2026. The Canadian Press

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Gracey Hemstreet will not partake in this year's UCI World Championships downhill event in Val di Sole, Italy. The Squamolian athlete wrote on social media: "I’ve made the difficult decision not to start at World Champs qualifying this afternoon. The priority now is recovery, resetting and making sure I’m in the best possible place heading into my home race in Whistler.

Pedro Antunes, chief economist at Signal49 Research, joins BNN Bloomberg to assess Canadian GDP data for June. OTTAWA — Fresh data from Statistics Canada on Friday suggests the economy was growing at a healthy clip in the second quarter and rumblings of a recession earlier in the year might have been overblown. But economists warned that any momentum the economy had last quarter will be tested by a new wave of tariffs and trade uncertainty. Real gross domestic product rose 3.3 per cent on an annualized basis in the second quarter, StatCan said. That was the fastest quarterly pace of growth since early 2023 and topped the Bank of Canada’s call for 2.5 per cent growth in the quarter. BMO chief economist Doug Porter said in an interview that 3.3 per cent is a “solid result.” A typical quarterly figure over the past 20 years would see the economy growing at around two per cent annualized, he noted. Latest economic news on BNNBloomberg.ca“Just to put it in perspective, we had almost no growth in the prior four quarters combined. So it really did look like the Canadian economy was breaking out of its funk over the spring,” Porter said.

Cyabra (Nasdaq: CYAB) announced a six-figure annual agreement with a leading interactive entertainment and gaming company to protect its brand and player community from coordinated manipulation and inauthentic activity. (Positive)Comment fonctionne le Sentiment

28 August 2026Gemma DaubeneyJerseyBBCBrothers Ben and Josh (right) Voak work for the conservation initiative The Grazing Project which has been using the GPS collars for three yearsGPS collars are changing the way animals grazing on Jersey's cliffsides are managed, local shepherds have said. Conservation initiative The Grazing Project has pioneered use of the collars on large flocks of sheep, with its efforts so successful it is now training four grazing cows to use the collars too. In 2025, the technology was featured on Clarkson's Farm, Jeremy Clarkson's fly-on-the-wall documentary about his Cotswolds farm Diddly Squat, where it was used to contain his herd of goats. Jersey brothers and shepherds Josh and Ben Voak, who work with the project, said it had saved them hours of manual labour and opened up new areas for flocks to graze. The GPS collars deliver an audible alarm and mild electric shock if the sheep get close to the virtual boundary set on a smartphone appThe collars use GPS technology to keep livestock within an invisible boundary drawn using a smartphone app.

A Summerland, B. C., thrift store will permanently close its doors in December, after two difficult years in business and a summer tourism season disrupted by the Bald Range wildfire. Owner Jules Zest says she was already considering closing Twisted Whiskers Café and Thrift Store before the fire, but the challenges of this summer helped make the decision easier.

The cardboard cutout of tennis legend and equal rights trailblazer Billie Jean King is looking right at A Bar of Their Own owner Jillian Hiscock. The life-size model at the front door of the Minneapolis watering hole is a seamless part of the two-room space’s decor—a relic among the women’s sports memorabilia throughout. Hiscock has been on the phone the last several minutes trying to get permission to stream an event. Once she is finished with a reporter, she has another call to make—to talk with people from a company that is helping a women’s sports bar get off the ground in Des Moines, Iowa about audio-video setups. Kelly HagensonA Bar of Their OwnSophia HantzesA Bar of Their Own owner Jillian Hiscock“I think it’s part of my job, honestly, to help continue to grow this movement and help make other women successful,” Hiscock says. “I know it’s challenging, but I had a lot of help, and insight and support … from Jenny Nguyen and Jen Barnes, and I want to continue to pay that forward in this process.”Nguyen and Barnes, from Portland and Seattle, respectively, are two of the nation’s first owners of bars that almost exclusively televise women’s sports.

Dolly Parton, the legendary singer turned business mogul and philanthropist, could always be relied on for some straight-talking advice. Even when it came to emulating her massive success, the country music star’s guidance was simple: “Work your butt off.” Friends, family, and fans of Parton are reminiscing and celebrating her accomplishments—be it her music, entrepreneurship, or philanthropy—after her nephew and head of security, Bryan Seaver, announced her death in a statement earlier this week.

With a trip to the 2026 LLBWS Championship on the line, Team Mountain and Team Great Lakes face off in a rematch in the United States Championship on Saturday. The semifinals are set when the Mountain and Great Lakes Regions face off in the United States Championship for the 2026 Little League Baseball World Series on Saturday afternoon. Team Mountain is the only undefeated team left in the United States bracket, represented by Paseo Verde LL from Henderson, NV, with a 3-0 record coming into this game against the Great Lakes. This is actually the last game of the day, as all of today’s championship games will air on ABC. But first, the 2026 Little League Challenge Exhibition will be played between teams from Berwyn, PA, and Oakley, CA, marking its 25th anniversary, at 10:30 a.m. ET. That will be followed by the International Championship between undefeated Team Curaçao and Team Japan at 12:30 p.m. ET. This U. S. Championship game is a rematch between Team Mountain and Team Great Lakes from their openers last Friday in this tournament. The Mountain Region won in a tight game, 6-5.

J. Cole’s concert in Sacramento was canceled Thursday, following the death of a crew member. The tour stop at Golden 1 Center was nixed after a member of the rapper‘s crew was involved in a deadly crash earlier that day. The venue and concert promoter Live Nation shared the news on social media. “Following the tragic passing of a member of the touring crew in a trucking accident this morning, J. Cole’s performance at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento tonight, August 27, has been canceled,” the statement read. “Our thoughts are with the crew member’s family and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.”According to the Sacramento Bee, California Highway Patrol said that around 6 a.m., a touring member driving a big rig crashed on Interstate 5 in Yolo County, when the semitruck drifted onto the right shoulder and tried to return to the road off southbound I-5 and overturned south of Zamora. The crew member died at the scene, according to police. Per the outlet, the big rig was transporting touring equipment from Tuesday night’s Seattle show. The Yolo County Coroner’s Office told the Sacramento Bee that the driver was identified as Jarlath Parkinson, 66, of Jackson, S. C.

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Meta agreed to silence notifications for teens from midnight to 6:00 AM, but this excludes direct messaging and can be disabled by parents. Following a landmark agreement in the United States on Wednesday, social media giant Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion to US states. This historic settlement obliges the company to make Instagram and Facebook safer for children.