Fall 2026 Shoe Trends: Six Practical Styles and Buying Tips
Explore six fall shoe styles, with practical advice on fit, comfort and smarter shopping.
Why has B.C.’s snap election caught both main parties unprepared?
When a snap election is called, at least one side would normally be prepared. But that hasn’t been the case in British Columbia, resulting in a provincial election campaign like no other, political watchers say. The campaign has seen interim B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson going without media availabilities on several days, including on Tuesday…
Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia could be postponed but ‘no hurry’ to decide: AFC
Minister of Sports of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal celebrates after qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2026. — Reuters The Asian Cup scheduled for January in Saudi Arabia could be moved back a year to 2028 “if we need to”, the continent’s top football official said, following a series of Houthi attacks on…
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown
Private equity giant Blackstone is putting itself at the center of the AI boom, firm veteran Jas Khaira discussed last week on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. It is writing checks via various strategies, ranging from offering massive loans to data centers to investing in frontier AI models and applications. Earlier this year, the firm launched…
BC election 2026 results: Vancouver-Yaletown
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vancouver-Yaletown is a provincial riding located in the region. This riding is currently represented by MLA who first took office in . collected votes, winning per cent of the vote in the 2024 B.C. provincial election. Just two years after the previous election, B.C. residents have cast…
Sri Lanka’s Nissanka ruled out of ODI tri-series featuring Pakistan, England
Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nissanka runs after playing a shot during a match against Pakistan at Dubai International Stadium in the UAE. — Reuters/File Sri Lanka’s opener Pathum Nissanka will miss upcoming ODI tri-series against hosts Pakistan and England after failing to obtain medical clearance to resume playing, the board confirmed on Thursday. Nissanka sustained…
A Coding Guide to Cactus Whistle: Does a 16.9 MB Speech Model Hold Up Against Whisper Base? Word Error Rate, Speed, Streaming, Timestamps, Keywords, and Speech-to-Tool Calls on a CPU
In this tutorial, we use Whistle, Cactus Compute’s speech-to-text model, a 16.9 MB file that runs on a CPU, transcribes seven languages, and returns word timestamps and probabilities. The model card claims it beats Whisper base on LibriSpeech; we test it on seeded test-clean and test-other samples, comparing Whistle with Whisper tiny and base on…
BC election 2026 results: Vernon-Lumby
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vernon-Lumby is a provincial riding located in the region. This riding is currently represented by MLA who first took office in . collected votes, winning per cent of the vote in the 2024 B.C. provincial election. Just two years after the previous election, B.C. residents have cast…
Sri Lanka elect to bowl against England in ODI tri-series
Dunith Wellalage removes both openers Tom Banton (50) and Ben Duckett (29) after they give a solid start to England Sri Lanka captain Kusal Mendis won the toss and elected to bowl first against England in their ODI tri-series match at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Sri Lanka brought in left-arm spinner Dunith Wellalage for…
Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method
Perplexity, along with NVIDIA team, has introduced JOLT, a new post-training method for language models. JOLT stands for Joint On-policy Learning and Teaching. It trains a single model in 2 roles. The teacher sees privileged information; the student does not. The key change is that the teacher is trained too, so its feedback stays usable….
Law Society complaint questions U of Toronto law professor’s Indigenous ancestry – National
A complaint filed Oct. 14 with the Law Society of Ontario requests that disciplinary action be taken against a Toronto lawyer who has built a notable career as an Anishinaabe woman specializing in Indigenous law, alleging she has no evidence that she is Indigenous at all. The complaint is against Promise Holmes Skinner, who identifies as…
