Canada is spending more on health care than ever. Whether Canadians are getting more care for their money is another question. A new report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) projects health-care spending will reach a record $433 billion in 2026, or $10,398 per person, an increase of 4.8 per cent over last year.
Read full articleIt is not a good week for billionaires. Days after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s cheating scandal emerged, it has come out that Lucy Guo – who, until last year, was the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire – is preparing to sue her ex-girlfriend, actress Wallis Day. Lucy Guo made her billions by co-founding the data-labelling artificial intelligence company Scale AI, as well as Passes – an OnlyFans-like platform for creators. She dated the British actress for six months before they called...
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Shin Min-a currently rules the Eastern Empire as the titular character in Disney+’s hit fantasy romance The Remarried Empress. Yet, lofty though her protagonist’s rank may be, the actress is no stranger to being at the top, having enjoyed broad popularity since breaking out on screen more than a quarter of a century ago. Entering the industry as a model at age 14 in 1998, Shin quickly found herself in front of numerous cameras, appearing in a slew of popular music videos and advertisements. She...
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William Shakespeare’s star-crossed romance Romeo and Juliet has been adapted for the screen innumerable times, perhaps most famously by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968. While every version reflects the era of its creation, none speaks quite as loudly as Baz Luhrmann’s ultra-stylised, fiercely 1990s take, which turns 30 this month. The second – and best – of Luhrmann’s much-loved “Red Curtain” trilogy, which includes 1992’s Strictly Ballroom and 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet (1996) is blessed...
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Buzkashi, or the goat-grabbing game, has brought excitement to the Pamir Plateau in Taxkorgan County of Kashi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.