We hear plenty of stories about hackers getting into computer systems and devices—viruses, man-in-the-middle attacks, DDos storms, malware, ransomware and the like. But would you believe the first electronic hack happened in 1903? Guglielmo Marconi, the father of modern radio, had come up with the concept of point-to-point wireless radio transmissions.

“By tuning a transmitter to a specific frequency,” he said, “you can securely reach another party who has tuned to exactly the same frequency.”

This greatly annoyed telegraph companies, who didn’t want to be put out of business. One of these telegraph operators, a guy named Nevil Maskelyne, heard about a demonstration Marconi was giving. Using his own transmitter, he hacked into Marconi’s test broadcast, spelling out the word “rats” over and over in Morse code. Then he keyed in a rude limerick that began “There was a young fellow from Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily.”

I guess this makes Maskelyne the first-ever black hat hacker.

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For years, the top weekly music magazine in the UK was Melody Maker. Since the only radio came from the BBC, fans of pop and rock relied on The Maker for news on what was hot and new and worth listening to. Anyone who appeared on the cover suddenly sold hundreds of thousands of records.

Melody Maker also covered plenty of artists from North America and had an office and stringers in the US. But in the mid-70s, the pound fell sharply against the US dollar, forcing Melody Maker to close its American operations and to scale back its coverage of music on this side of the Atlantic.

For content, they redirected their music coverage to what was happening at home in the UK. And the mid-70s, that was punk. Melody Maker joined their rival, The New Musical Express, in highlighting and reinforcing the presence of this new music, which went a long way to making it successful with the public.

Weird how things happen sometimes, huh?

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A Huntsville, Ont., woman is facing fraud charges after police allege she attempted to deposit a fraudulent cheque belonging to a 101-year-old local resident.

Ontario Provincial Police say officers were called to a bank in Huntsville on May 21 after receiving reports of a suspected fraud.

Investigators allege a woman attempted to deposit a cheque believed to be fraudulent.

Police said the investigation determined the cheque belonged to a 101-year-old Huntsville resident.

As a result of the investigation, OPP charged a 45-year-old individual of Huntsville, on June 2 with fraud under $5,000 and obtaining by false pretense.

The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on July 21.

Police are reminding the public to remain vigilant against fraud and report suspicious activity to local police or the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.

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Actor Shia LaBeouf pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of simple battery for punching people outside a New Orleans bar in February during Mardi Gras.

Sentencing details were not immediately available in online court records. An attorney and a manager for LaBeouf did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Video of the Feb. 17 encounter shows a shirtless LaBeouf shoving one person to the ground and hitting another person in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate,” according to a New Orleans police report.

Jeffrey Damnit, a well-known local entertainer who police identified as Jeffrey Klein in the incident report, said he was one of the people attacked by LaBeouf.

“He hit me, he connected a few times with punches, he pushed me a few times,” Damnit told The Associated Press earlier this year.

LaBeouf “just got nuts” trying to start fights and telling the entertainer and others that he would beat them up, Damnit said. He added that LaBeouf had pushed him from behind at the bar earlier in the night, shouting homophobic slurs and threatening his life.

Damnit and others subdued LaBeouf and tried to get him to leave the area, but he would not leave and became more aggressive, according to Damnit and the police report.

LaBeouf has had several run-ins with the law during his career, including a 2017 New York City arrest on suspicion of assault that happened during a livestream.

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With the first FIFA World Cup game in Vancouver coming up, Grouse Mountain has unveiled what it hopes will be a photographed landmark when visitors arrive.

On Wednesday morning, Grouse Mountain officially unveiled the largest Canadian flag ever displayed on a mountain.

It was first spotted on Tuesday on The Cut ski run and can be seen from across Metro Vancouver.

The flag is 160 metres by 80 metres, which is approximately the size of two football fields. It weighs about 3,000 pounds and more than 70 people were involved in installing it, according to staff at Grouse Mountain.

“This is a moment designed to be seen not just from the mountain, but from across the city, from the sky, and around the world,” Adam Rootman, senior director of marketing for Grouse Mountain Resort, said in a statement.

“As Vancouver welcomes international visitors, we wanted to put our support behind the home squad in a way that is truly unforgettable.

Staff said they will also contact the Guinness Book of World Records for the title of largest flag unfurled on a mountain.

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New research suggests that infertility or endometriosis could be linked to a higher risk of early menopause.

A study published in Menopause, the journal of The Menopause Society, on Wednesday suggests a possible link between women who had unexplained infertility or endometriosis and those who have menopause happening before age 45.

“This study shows that women with primary infertility, specifically those with unexplained infertility or a history of endometriosis, were at risk for early menopause,” said Dr. Stephanie Faubion, medical director of The Menopause Society in the study’s release.

“Given that early menopause is linked to adverse long-term health consequences, these women may benefit from counseling that they are at risk of early menopause. This will allow them to monitor for early menopause and to seek treatment with hormone therapy, if indicated.”

Out of nearly 1,000 participants, about half had been previously diagnosed with primary infertility, meaning they had never been pregnant and had trouble getting pregnant.

In addition, women who had primary infertility appeared to reach menopause one year earlier on average than women without it.

Women with endometriosis appeared to reach menopause 2.75 years earlier than women without endometriosis, while women with “unexplained infertility” underwent menopause 1.45 years earlier than those without it.

Dr. Michelle Jacobson, an OGBYN based out of Toronto and menopause specialist, welcomes the research, but says it was “not a shock” for her.

“This is good for women, because it gives them more information, and a greater context to consider their presentations and their behaviours and their actions when they perhaps are very early in their reproductive journey and only finding out about infertility,” she said. “This is one more thing to add to the list of things to consider.

“This is another study contributing to our knowledge around and our understanding of these relationships and associations, not necessarily a new risk factor.”

The study also states that infertility affects approximately one in six people globally, representing “a large population of reproductive-aged individuals and has implications for not only family building but long-term health.”

It was also suggested that those people also face an elevated risk for developing cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Women who face early menopause before age 45, and premature menopause — happening before age 40 — also face a higher risk for developing health problems like osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and neurocognitive disorders.

“There are lots of factors that are risk factors for an earlier menopause. Some of them are modifiable and some of them aren’t,” said Jacobson. 

“Something like endometriosis is a risk factor for an earlier menopause, partially because women do have multiple surgeries often, and those surgeries impact their ovarian reserve.” 

She also recommended that women monitor certain lifestyle habits, such as planning when they want to start a family, maintaining a healthy body weight and not smoking.

“All of these things which help us with conception and potentially with age of our body.”

According to Endometriosis Network Canada, the condition affects at least one in 10 women in Canada, with almost two million Canadians estimated to have endometriosis. However, that number is possibly higher.

Endometriosis is a condition where the lining of the uterus grows outside it, causing severe pelvic pain that includes pain during menstruation and sex as well as pain in surrounding organ tissue including the bowel and bladder.

Roughly one in three people with endometriosis have difficulty getting pregnant.

A May 2026 Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) study analyzed data of more than 1.4 million births in Ontario between April 7, 2006, and March 31, 2021, with 33,619 babies being born to people who had endometriosis.

Of that number, 2,120 babies had a congenital anomaly, representing a 6.3 per cent rate.

Compared to babies born to people without endometriosis, 77,094 had a congenital anomaly, representing a 5.4 per cent rate. The study concluded that “endometriosis in the patient was independently associated with a higher risk of any congenital anomaly.”

In addition, an April 2026 from Oxford University raised hopes surrounding a potential non-invasive endometriosis scan that could help give women an earlier explanation for their symptoms.

Nineteen people with confirmed or suspected endometriosis were evaluated through a specialized SPECT-CT scan, along with an injection of a molecular tracer called maraciclatide. It attached to areas where new blood vessels were forming — believed to be a key part of early endometriosis growth.

As a result, the new technique was able to correctly detect the presence or absence of endometriosis in 16 women.

It was also found that the specialized CT scans are “accurately detecting endometriotic lesions” that is often “missed by conventional imaging methods.”

The study is the second phase of research meant to “generate preliminary evidence of imaging performance characteristics.” The third phase will aim to “validate these findings in a larger group of participants.”

Overall, Jacobson cites more research as “a win for women.”

“It brings us back into the spotlight, it forces us to have conversations about women’s health.” 

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is set to bring forward a petition to the House of Commons on July 8 with the hope is that the disease becomes recognized as a disability under federal and provincial programs.

Endometriosis Network Canada also released a call in 2024 for the federal government to ” launch a National Action Plan for Endometriosis.”

The network also states that “Australia in 2018, France in 2022, and England in 2022 have prioritized supporting education, innovation, prompt diagnosis, treatment, and research for endometriosis.”

Although addressing holes in the Canadian health care system is “multi-layered,” Jacobson says “putting women on the right pathway” is imperative.

“We’ve moved so far, and this is over the last 30-plus years, where we’re taking a much more symptoms-based approach to diagnosing and treating endometriosis,” she said.

“We now focus more on things like infertility of the symptoms, pelvic pain, painful periods, pain with intercourse. These are the hallmarks of endometrioses that push us towards the suspicion of the diagnosis, and our goal now is in treating those symptoms.”

“The patient ultimately is the one who will follow their own journey along that web,” she added.

“So, identifying the relationship between these factors, setting women on the right pathway from the beginning rather than being reactive, this is what the kind of overhaul that will be a huge difference, I think, for our patients and for our community.”

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Moncton, N.B.’s fire department responded to 52 overdose calls over the weekend when it usually only receives four or five a day.

And it’s suspected some sort of tranquillizer in the drug supply is to blame, according to Ensemble Moncton, a harm reduction organization that runs the city’s drug overdose prevention site.

Moncton fire Chief Conrad Landry says it was one of the worst few days he’s seen in his eight years on the job, in terms of responding to overdoses.

Since Monday, Landry says the number of calls has come down, so he hopes it was just a “bad batch.”

“Yesterday, around noon, we were at about 10. I didn’t look at the number after that. So it seemed that it’s slowing down a little bit, so hopefully it was just a bad batch and then we can get back into some normal numbers, which is still too high,” he said.

“But we’re monitoring this situation and we’re dealing with our stakeholders and our partners to see what we can do to be part of the solution.”

Josue Goguen, a front-line supervisor at Ensemble Moncton, which is the city’s only drug overdose prevention site, says they responded to 25 overdoses on Friday alone — one of the worst days in its history.

“We suspect that the current supply going around has some form of tranquillizer in it. We suspect that it’s medetomidine, which is a strong tranquillizer not made for human consumption,” Goguen said.

While New Brunswick’s Department of Health hasn’t released any warnings about a possible tainted drug supply, Nova Scotia Health issued a warning about fentanyl containing high levels of toxicity causing suspected overdoses in Cumberland County.

A spokesperson from New Brunswick’s provincial government said they are “actively engaging with our partners” to better understand the situation and “identify any immediate concerns related to harmful substances in the area.”

“Our priority is ensuring the safety and wellbeing of individuals and communities impacted by substance use. We continue to support communities through funding take home naloxone kits, drug checking services, and encouraging safe consumption with peers and at Ensemble’s Overdose Prevention Site,” spokesperson Clarissa Andersen wrote.

Meanwhile, Landry says there were concerns over the weekend about how stretched thin the fire department was with the medical calls.

While the city has mutual aid agreements it can use if the department is overwhelmed, the concern is still there.

“But sometimes we were there 20, 30 minutes before an ambulance could arrive. So that was kind of our resources had to stay with the patient so that if we would have had a fire, that could have delayed some response,” Landry said.

As of July, the fire department will have a truck dedicated exclusively to responding to medical calls, which Landry hopes will help with resources.

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This story is Part 3 of the Road to the Referendum series. Part 1 on regular folks for and against separation can be found here. Part 2 about the border city of Lloydminster can be found here. More on what to expect from the series can be found here.

Surrounded by students practicing a fire drill at Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation’s only school in early May, chief Sheldon Sunshine looks around and sees his nation’s future.

“We’re trying to build these systems so these children have a chance and are always tied to our culture and way of life,” Sunshine said.

Those systems include more cultural and land-based teachings in the Treaty 8 territory community of 1,400 people, located near Grande Prairie in northwestern Alberta.

“We run camps in the summer. We had a moose harvest camp where it was just geared for our students,” Sunshine said.

“We had some of our elders come and discuss about butchering the animal and traditional foods. We have fish camps where the community comes out and learns how to clean fish.”

At a community space built on the land next to where the St. Francis Xavier Residential School used to sit, elders and people with educational backgrounds now meet up and teach other members the Cree language.

“We are going to fight like heck to protect and preserve our way of life for our future generations.”

Part of that fight is pushing back against Alberta possibly splitting off from Canada.

First Nations have won a pair of significant court battles limiting the provincial government’s ability to hold a constitutionally binding referendum.

Sturgeon Lake is one of the First Nations at the forefront of those legal battles over Alberta separation. Indigenous Treaty rights are a central courtroom argument for several different nations.

“Our way of life is out there on the land. It’s harvesting medicines, living off the land, utilizing the fur-bearing animals in a good way to sustain ourselves,” Sunshine said.

“Our people have been living in this territory for millennia and when they signed Treaty, it was to ensure our way of life continued.”

Two different judges have already ruled in First Nations’ favour.

Their reasoning is the province neglected its duty to consult by allowing Stay Free Alberta’s question and petition drive to go ahead.

“Treaty First Nations are the senior partners at the constitutional table,” said Bruce McIvor, a senior partner and founder of First Peoples Law LLP in Vancouver, B.C.

The firm works exclusively on Indigenous rights cases.

Treaty rights are the constitutionally recognized, nation-to-nation agreements signed more than a century ago between the Crown and Canada’s Indigenous peoples.

The lands of five different treaty nations fall within the boundaries of Alberta: the big three are Treaty 8 across northern Alberta, Treaty 6 in Edmonton and central Alberta, and Treaty 7 stretching from south of Red Deer to the Canada-U.S. border.

Small slivers of two other regions also stretch into Alberta: Treaty 10 near Cold  Lake, and Treaty 4 east of Medicine Hat.

McIvor reiterated treaties were signed between First Nations and the Crown, before Alberta became a province in 1905.

Because of that, he argues those agreements supersede any provincial decisions.

“Canada is a constitutional democracy — so it’s a democracy based on a Constitution and the heart of that Constitution are the Treaties,” McIvor said.

“If Alberta wanted to remove itself from Canada, Alberta wouldn’t have any legitimacy because it would break the promise of the Treaties.”

While announcing a separation question is going to a referendum, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called the most recent court ruling ‘erroneous’ and vowed to appeal it.

Smith said she believe the decision overstates the duty to consult, noting she feels it should only be required in relation to major projects.

“I don’t even know what the court would expect of a citizen initiated petition, to satisfy a bar for duty to consult, before they can even ask a question,” Smith said.

“That’s why I think there’s been an error in law.”

During an annual meeting of western and northern premiers at the end of May, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew spoke out against the referendum.

Smith said she thinks it’s a mistake to expect consultations to be done in relation to citizen-initiated petitions, which prompted Kinew to challenge her.

“That is not correct, a lot of what you just said there, Premier Smith,” Kinew said. “It is not up to the petition gatherers to fulfil the duty to consult.

“It is up to you, as the Alberta government, to fulfil the duty to consult.”

Kinew said he agrees with the judge’s ruling and that creating a new international border around Alberta would certainly impede established treaty rights for Indigenous people to hunt and fish.

Smith responded by saying their disagreement proves the importance of Canada’s court system, adding that she respects the “difference of opinion.”

“I think we’ll wait to see how our court of appeals process goes and see what the courts have to say.”

Chief Sunshine said the new question put forward by the province does not change his approach.

He promises the First Nation will keep up a vocal — and likely legal — opposition to the topic.

“It is my responsibility to ensure that way of life is protected with everything I have, so our children, our grandchildren can enjoy the freedom to practice our way of life,” Sunshine said.

A practice Sunshine envisions continuing as a part of Canada.

— With files from Karen Bartko, Global News and Dayne Patterson and Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press

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Nathan Rourke has the opportunity to accomplish something this season that’s never been done in CFL history.

No Canadian has captured the CFL’s outstanding player award in consecutive years. Russ Jackson won it three times over his legendary career with the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1963, ’66 and ’69.

Last year, Rourke became just the fifth player to win the award and was also named the league’s top Canadian. Rourke was the first quarterback to complete that sweep since Jackson in 1969. Winnipeg’s Brady Oliveira in 2024, Calgary’s Jon Cornish in 2013 and Ottawa’s Tony Gabriel in 1978 are the other Canadian MOP winners.

“Just like any other player, I want to be a great player and want to be regarded as such,” the B.C Lions star said. “I do believe even if you’re someone who wins multiple individual awards, if you don’t win the big one that’s what people are going to say.

“You always play to win and that’s certainly the goal this year.”

Only five players have earned consecutive outstanding player awards, the last being Winnipeg’s Zach Collaros (2021-22). Doug Flutie won it four straight years and six times over seven seasons (1991-94, 96-97) with B.C., Calgary and Toronto before returning to the NFL.

The others were Jackie Parker (1957-58), Dieter Brock (1980-81) and Anthony Calvillo (2008-09). But all are Americans.

The six-foot-one, 209-pound Rourke enjoyed a record-setting ’25 campaign, throwing for a career-high 5,290 yards and 31 touchdowns to lead the Lions (11-7) to second in the West Division. He also ran for 564 yards — tops among CFL quarterbacks — and averaged 9.2 yards per carry while scoring 10 touchdowns.

Rourke’s 5,290 passing yards was a single-season CFL record for a Canadian quarterback. The Victoria native’s 31 TD strikes were second-most by a Canadian behind Jackson’s 33 in 1969.

But B.C.’s season ended bitterly with a 24-21 West Division final loss at Mosaic Stadium to the eventual Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.

“I don’t know if you’re ever really over it,” Rourke said. “I think it’s one of those things where it’s less of a wash and more of just having to move on because it’s taking up too much of your head space.

“When I look back at my career, I think the ’25 team will be where I feel like we really had everything we needed to win it, which makes it all that more disappointing. Hopefully we’re able to bring it home at some point soon so that can feel a little bit better.”

The ’26 season begins Thursday with Hamilton hosting Montreal in a rematch of last year’s East Division final. The Ticats resume chasing their first CFL title since ’99 — the CFL’s longest championship drought — while the Alouettes dropped a 25-17 Grey Cup decision to Saskatchewan.

B.C. opens its campaign June 13 visiting the Riders in the season opener for both.

Despite his stellar ’25 season, Rourke, 28, said there’s plenty of room for improvement.

“I’m trying to take the next step in the offence and just be more efficient in continuing to get the ball to our playmakers,” he said. “I think the real challenge going into this season is just trying to be able to adapt to defences and how they adapt and evolve.

“Now there’s a full year of tape on our tendencies and what we like to do. Corey Mace (Saskatchewan’s head coach) is going to have a plan for us and so it’s how do we adapt to that and still be able to perform at the same level?”

This year, CFL teams will no longer win games with a single off a missed field goal that sails through the end zone. Now, no points will be awarded for errant field goals, punts or kickoffs that go through the end zone — either in the air or via a bounce.

If a returner fields a missed field goal, punt or kickoff in the end zone and either kneels or is tackled in the end zone trying to forward the ball, a single will be awarded.

Also, there will be a 35-second automatic reset on the play clock rather than the traditional 20 seconds. Once action ceases, the 35-second clock will begin.

And each CFL stadium will have team benches on opposite sides of the field.

Two teams will feature new head coaches in 2026. After five seasons and two Grey Cup wins in Toronto, Ryan Dinwiddie left to become the Ottawa Redblacks’ head coach/GM, with Shawn Burke becoming vice-president of football operations.

Mike Miller, Toronto’s quarterback coach from 2022-25, takes over as head coach. And he’ll have a familiar face under centre as Chad Kelly returns after missing all of 2025 with a leg injury suffered in the ’24 East final.

Under Miller, Kelly was the CFL’s outstanding player in 2023.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 3, 2026.

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A body recovered from Lake Huron has been identified as a 22-year-old from Nepal who went missing following a rafting incident nearly two weeks ago, OPP say.

First responders were called to Pinery Provincial Park on May 18 following reports of a water emergency involving a raft carrying five people.

Four people involved were able to safely get to shore and were uninjured, OPP said at the time. The fifth person was unaccounted for.

OPP say aviation services and underwater search and recovery aided in a coordinated search effort in the area.

Shortly after 2:30 p.m. on May 29, OPP and fire and emergency services responded to a report of a deceased person located in Lake Huron along the shoreline in the Municipality of Lambton Shores.

The Office of the Chief Coroner and Ontario Forensic Pathology Service assisted in the investigation and identified the deceased person as a 22-year-old from Nepal.

OPP confirmed it is the same person who went missing following the rafting incident.

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