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1 week ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Days after an estimated 19.6 million Canadians cast their ballots, the results of this year’s federal election are coming in, bringing with them a new political landscape. Here are some of the takeaways from Canada’s 45th trip to the polls:Big takes from smallThis year’s election saw gains for Canada’s two largest federal parties and losses for everyone else.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
OpenAI has rolled back ChatGPT to an earlier version of the AI model after a new update displayed “overly supportive but disingenuous” behaviour, a quirk the tech firm describes as “uncomfortable” and “unsettling” for users. “In last week’s GPT‑4o update, we made adjustments aimed at improving the model’s default personality to make it feel more intuitive and effective across a variety of tasks,” reads an announcement on OpenAI’s website.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Canadian workers are among the most stressed in the world, even if most say they’re thriving, a new Gallup survey has found. Published Wednesday, this year’s State of the Global Workplace Report asked more than 225,000 workers around the world about their experiences on the job and in their lives generally. Among them, Canadian respondents gave higher-than-average ratings for their lives on the whole, but also some of the highest rates of daily stress.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
One of the perks of building a bar in your own home is choosing your clientele. But one Australian homeowner found an unexpected guest: a large python on the hunt for prey. In a video shared by Storyful earlier this month, snake catcher Daniel Busstra was dispatched to a home in the Sunshine Coast community of Flaxton, Queensland.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Nearly 14,000 Ford and Lincoln vehicles are being recalled over potential brake-fluid leaks, according to a Transport Canada notice last updated Thursday. The expanded recall affects 2017 Ford F-150s, 2017 and 2018 Ford Expeditions and 2017 and 2018 Lincoln Navigators, particularly certain vehicles equipped with a 3.5 L Ecoboost engine, the notice reads. At issue is the vehicles’ braking system.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Scientists at a University of Pennsylvania (uPenn) physics and biology lab have put their minds to one of life’s great mysteries: How do you make the perfect cup of coffee, for cheap? For pour-over coffee at least, one of the secrets lies in how high you pour from, according to a new study published in Physics of Fluids. After years of adverse weather in the tropics, the supply chain for arabica beans has come under strain, a uPenn press release reads.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is criticizing Liberal Leader Mark Carney for his recent comments on the war in Gaza. At a Tuesday campaign rally in Calgary, Carney responded to an attendee who shouted: “Mister Carney, there is a genocide happening in Palestine!”“I am aware, which is why we have an arms embargo,” Carney is heard saying at the April 8 event. Thursday afternoon, Netanyahu shared a clip of the exchange to his X account, demanding the Liberal leader walk back his comments.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
A restaurant in Thailand is drawing attention — and criticism — for offering discounts to their skinniest patrons. Customers at Chiang Mai Breakfast World in the northern Thai city of the same name can get up to 20 per cent off their bill, provided they can fit their body through a series of increasingly narrow gates erected near the beer garden’s entrance.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
A recall has been issued for two kinds of Tony’s Chocolonely chocolate bars due to the “presence of stones,” health officials say. Published Thursday by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), the national recall notice warns consumers not to use, sell, serve or distribute the affected products.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
U.S. President Donald Trump has laid sweeping tariffs on the world’s automotive industry to strengthen the production of U.S. cars, but one industry expert says that based on how the supply chain works, there’s really no such thing. “Anywhere from four to eight times, a part could go back and forth (across the border) before it is installed into a finished vehicle,” said Brian Kingston, president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, in an interview with CTV Your Morning Friday.
