Thursday, November 12, 2026

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RBA points to AI mania as another inflation driver that could push up interest rates

Borrowers are being warned interest rates will have to be raised again if the Middle East conflict or the AI boom push inflation up higher than expected. Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser singled out the two risks to inflation...

A study following more than 1,000 children for decades found that self-control measured between ages 3 and 11 predicted better health and financial outcomes...

One of the easiest ways to misread a study about children’s self-control is to turn it into a story about good children and bad children. The Dunedin research was more careful than that. It followed 1,037 people born in...

Migration generates more heat than light, but the evidence is clearer than the shouting suggests: migrants found most of America’s billion-dollar companies, pay in...

Few subjects generate more heat and less light than migration, and any honest look at what migrants bring has to begin by admitting that the debate is genuinely contested and the effects are genuinely mixed. But contested is not...

Lists of rare traits that make people fall in love promise something exotic, but the research points to two ordinary-sounding capacities that are genuinely...

Search for rare personality traits that make people fall in love and you get lists of quirks: a mysterious aloofness, an unusual laugh, a particular brand of confidence. The research on what actually draws people into deep attachment points...

Vancouver’s Bitcoin Block Party Returns at New Downtown Location

Vancouver’s Bitcoin Block Party will return on Sunday, August 23, following a one-year hiatus and a move to a new downtown home. The free, all-ages event will take over the Bentall Centre Courtyard outside FUNK Coffee from noon to 8...

Canadian Companies Receive Most Exclusive Rights to University Patents, Survey Finds

A new national survey is challenging the perception that intellectual property developed at Canadian universities is routinely transferred to foreign companies. Co-authored by Brett Sharp, Associate Director of Technology Transfer at Innovation UBC, the analysis found that Canadian companies receive...

Psychology says men who have quietly lost their joy usually can’t point to when it happened — it wasn’t one thing, but a slow...

Ask him when it started and he’ll frown, because there’s no answer. Nothing happened. There was no crash, no bad year he can point to. Work is fine. The marriage is fine. He’s healthy, the mortgage gets paid, the kids...

Psychology says people who wave a hurried stranger ahead in line share traits most people never build — an instinct for reading the room,...

You’re fourth in line at the pharmacy with a full basket. Behind you, a man is holding one box of children’s medicine and checking his phone every few seconds. Something in his shoulders says the day is not going...

Living or working with someone who is always finding fault is genuinely draining, and the reason it stings is specific: their criticism attacks who...

Everyone knows the person who can always find the flaw. The relative who spots the one thing wrong with the meal, the colleague who greets every idea with what is wrong with it, the partner whose feedback never quite...

Psychology says the trait we most admire as “confidence” in leaders overlaps disturbingly often with narcissism, which helps explain why the wrong people so...

Watch how people are chosen for leadership positions and a pattern shows up. The person who speaks first in the meeting. The person who acts like they know the answer whether they do or not. The person who takes...
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As Funds Dried Up, Nonprofit Immigration Group Hired Anti-Labor Law Firm to Crush Union

As the two executives of immigration advocacy group Washington Immigration Solidarity Network (WAISN) burned through cash and as donations...
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