John Blanche, the British artist and illustrator whose works formed the bedrock of the Warhammer tabletop gaming universes, has died. But you don’t need to be an avid gamer to feel the influence of the grim, dark worlds he helped build.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we find out how some provinces get good grades for running electric school buses; dig into the climate impact of liquefied natural gas; and uncover why reusable packaging at supermarkets took off in France, but not Canada.

As questions around the logistics of separation loom ahead of the Oct. 19 Alberta referendum on whether or not to kickstart the legal process of exiting Canada, the question of citizenship remains a murky one.

Summer movie season is normally a battle of Hollywood heavyweights — but this year, two of the hottest tickets at the box office come from young YouTubers who brought their built-in audiences with them to the big screen. Industry watchers say their success could influence what projects get made in the future.

As the Vegas Golden Knights advance in the Stanley Cup Final, at the centre of their championship run is Canadian goaltender Carter Hart — whose journey has been highly successful on ice and deeply controversial off it.

Grouse Mountain’s Adam Rootman tells The National about the moment his team broke the world record for ‘largest flag unfurled on a mountaintop’ on the ski hill in North Vancouver, B.C., as neighbouring Vancouver prepares for the FIFA World Cup.

A video showing Cambridge Mayor Jan Liggett interrupting a teenager’s Pride speech is making rounds on social media. Sophie Mills said they felt “distraught” by what happened.

A woman with worsening dementia was left in a home for a year after Social Development found it would not meet her safety needs, New Brunswick’s seniors advocate says.

The brutal murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak in southern England has ignited another volatile debate in the U.K. over race and what’s been described as “white grievance.” Despite pleas from Nowak’s grieving family to prevent his death from sparking racial division, prominent far-right and populist figures have tried to exploit the tragedy.

The owners of a hotel chain who are appealing orders to pay more than $100,000 in owed wages to three foreign workers say they weren’t even aware two of the workers were employed at one of the company’s Manitoba hotels.

A new national AI strategy by the federal government this week comes at a time when the country is confronting a wave of new high-powered

AI-related layoffs are in full swing as tech companies invest in artificial intelligence agents they say will take over tasks traditionally done by humans. But a major AI infrastructure and software company says the agents fail to produce professionally acceptable work more than 19 times out of 20, and some analysts say the technology is overhyped and being using as an excuse for laying off workers.