No one is born a famous rock star. There are years of dues-paying that come before the fame, often including some pretty mundane day jobs.

• Chris Cornell was a seafood wholesaler, which meant he went home smelling of fish guts.
• Kurt Cobain worked as a school janitor while his wife, Courtney Love, could once be found stripping at a place called Jumbo’s Clown Room in Hollywood.
• Brandon Flowers of the Killers worked as a bellboy at the Gold Coast Casino in Vegas.
• And still with the hospitality industry, Eddie Vedder worked as a night security guard at a hotel. He was eventually fired when his boss realized that instead of doing his rounds, Eddie was spending all his time noodling on his guitar.

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Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette has called a special cabinet meeting for Monday, putting her election campaign on hold one day before Canadian retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods are set to take effect.

Fréchette’s office confirmed Sunday that the cabinet meeting will be held virtually at 6 p.m., but the agenda for cabinet meetings is not disclosed in advance. Such meetings are relatively rare during an election campaign, when Fréchette is simultaneously serving as premier and campaigning as CAQ leader.

The meeting comes as Canada prepares to impose retaliatory tariffs on a wide range of U.S. goods the following day. The tariffs, which will range from 15 to 50 per cent, will apply to products including dairy, steel, copper and some beauty products.

They are in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on $28 billion worth of Canadian goods, ranging from hockey sticks to honey.

Rhetoric over the looming tariffs continued through the long weekend, with Trump posting on social media Sunday that the Canadian dollar’s exchange rate with the U.S. has been “unacceptable … for years — but no longer.”

Trump did not elaborate on his concerns, though the weaker Canadian dollar makes Canadian exports cheaper in the U.S. and American goods more expensive for Canadians.

Several of Fréchette’s political opponents accused her Sunday of using the tariff dispute for political gain during the provincial election campaign.

Quebec Liberal Leader Charles Milliard accused Fréchette of putting on “a play” by calling her ministers together on the eve of the tariffs taking effect.

“We’re going to have a news conference, flags, long faces, people lined up around a table telling us they’re there for Quebecers and that they’ll do everything they can to save Quebec,” Milliard said during a campaign stop in Gatineau.

He argued the CAQ government has failed to prepare Quebec businesses for the tariff war.

“This government has been there for eight years, not eight weeks,” Milliard said. “So to be told now that we’re going to be there for Quebecers, we’re going to be there for workers, we’re going to hand out this cheque and that tax credit, I find that astonishing.”

Quebec Conservative Leader Éric Duhaime also criticized the decision to convene cabinet, remarking on it during a campaign stop in Pont-Rouge, about 40 kilometres west of Quebec City.

“We all understand this is a CAQ marketing operation that is trying to exploit the tariff crisis to hide its record,” Duhaime said.

Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said in a written statement that “fear is not an economic strategy.”

He accused Fréchette of using “the Trump bogeyman” in recent days in the hope that voters will look away from the CAQ’s record and the other parties’ proposals.

Speaking later in Montmagny, about 80 kilometres east of Quebec City, St-Pierre Plamondon said that strategy should not be “an excuse not to campaign and to lack transparency with Quebecers.”

He also called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to directly keep all Quebec party leaders informed of developments in the event of further U.S. retaliation.

Québec solidaire co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal acknowledged that Fréchette remains premier and is holding the meeting in that capacity.

“What I’m asking her is: what is she proposing when it comes to tariffs for workers?” Ghazal said after a campaign announcement outside the legislature in Quebec City.

The cabinet meeting comes as Ottawa is also preparing for the latest escalation in the trade dispute.

On Friday, the federal government briefed its advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations about the looming tariffs and planned support for workers and businesses.

The meeting included a briefing from Canada’s chief U.S. trade negotiator, Janice Charette, as well as ministers in charge of finance, industrial policy and U.S. trade.

“The discussion also highlighted the importance of a unified Team Canada approach, with governments, industry, labour and other partners working together to ensure Canada’s response reflects national priorities and promotes long-term economic growth,” reads a Sept. 4 news release.

Fréchette is not the first political leader to temporarily step away from an election campaign because of the tariff dispute.

During the 2025 federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney paused his campaign three times to resume his official duties as the federal government prepared its response to the trade war with the United States.

— With files from Dylan Robertson in Ottawa and Thomas Laberge in Gatineau

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Just outside the small community of Watrous, Saskatchewan, Manitou Beach sits on the so-called “Dead Sea of Canada.”

“Little Manitou Lake, carved out by glaciers exposing bedrock and minerals that have been absorbed by water over time,” said Jeff Siegfried, community enhancement director of the Watrous Manitou Beach Marketing Group. “It’s called a terminal lake meaning water flowing into it has no way to escape and so the minerals that are in the bed of the lake leach into the water.”

The water is up to five times saltier than the ocean and said to have healing properties. The name Manitou means spiritual force or mysterious being.

Indigenous people first used the water for its healing abilities. Oral tradition suggests the water was used to treat ailments such as smallpox.

“I guess in their day, because they had to move to follow the buffalo,” said Lionel Sproule, Watrous Manitou Beach Heritage Centre chairman. “They left these ill people behind… they would come back by this way a month later and there would be the ill people healed and then carry on with life.”

Sproule, who managed the spa in Manitou when it opened, has many other stories of the healing waters, including a lady named Lydia from the southern part of Saskatchewan.

Lydia came to Manitou Beach not being able to walk by herself. She soaked in the water over 10 days and by the end of it, she was able to take small stiff steps.

She moved to Watrous and lived there the rest of her life.

But the water isn’t the only thing Manitou Beach is known for. The land is rich with history and more than 3,000 artifacts have been found along the shore, left by Indigenous people over centuries.

It’s also home to The Salty Cinema Drive-In Theater, one of just three remaining in the province.

“Drive-ins are you know not as in vogue, but it is just another experience that goes on here at Manitou that makes us unique and people are willing to travel for it,” said Lane Manson, overseer of the drive-in.

Just outside the theatre sits a combine from the original Twister movie.

The Manitou Beach attractions bring in people from all over Canada and beyond, with the area seeing about 150,000 visitors a year.

“I recovered from my hip injury, but I come out here for the water and you know the magnesium in the water, it’s really good and I find that it really works well. I mean last year when I was here with my arm injury, I was in the water and I could do things with my arm I couldn’t do before,” said Bob Dobko from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.

Watch the video above to learn more about Canada’s saltiest body of water.

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It may be time to drop it like it’s hot and pick up a spoon because Snoop Dogg is hiring an international ice cream taster.

Snoop is searching for someone to put their taste buds to work for his Dr. Bombay ice cream brand for US$10,000 a month.

“I’m hiring an international ice cream taster here at Dr. Bombay. Ten grand a month, you can apply anywhere in the world,” Snoop Dogg said in a video announcing the job.

The three-month gig is open to applicants around the world, with the successful candidate earning a total of US$30,000.

The taster will travel in search of frozen desserts, discover new and emerging food trends and report their findings to the Dr. Bombay team.

They’ll also help develop new flavours and ideas for the brand and create content along the way.

And you don’t need to be a professional food critic to get the gig.

Dr. Bombay is encouraging creators, foodies, marketers, students, entrepreneurs, journalists, chefs and people from unconventional professional backgrounds to apply.

Applicants must speak English, have a valid passport and be available for the full three-month contract.

Snoop launched Dr. Bombay Ice Cream in 2023, with his son Cordell Broadus playing a key role in developing the brand. Dr. Bombay is now looking beyond the U.S. for flavour inspiration as it expands.

The company says the ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of food and flavour trends and an ability to spot what’s coming before it goes mainstream.

Or, as Dr. Bombay puts it: “You have to know your stuff, but you also gotta know how to chill.”

Snoop’s team will be involved in reviewing the shortlisted candidates, with Snoop himself expected to call the lucky applicant who lands the job.

Ready to turn your sweet tooth into a paycheque? Applications are open here.

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A cargo plane with Amazon’s logo overran a runway in Miami after landing, with video showing smoke and flames pouring from the plane after it came to a rest.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a post on X at about 3:11 p.m. that 21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at about 2 p.m. Sept. 6.

The FAA said the Boeing 767-300 was operated by 21 Air and appeared to have an Amazon logo on its tail. Amazon started to operate some Boeing 767-300s in 2024 to support its delivery network.

Miami International Airport said Prime Air Flight 7598 was disabled at the northwest end of the airport.

The airport said at 4:50 p.m. that it had opened one runway about an hour after a full ground stop was issued.

It said it was still “experiencing impacts” from the crash and advises people planning to travel to check with their airlines for flight status updates before heading to the airport.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the FAA was sending investigators.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it was “gathering information” about the crash and has launched a go team to investigate. Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy will be on the scene with a briefing to be given Monday.

Miami is a major airport for the southeastern United States and Latin America.

Miam-Dade Fire Rescue said more than 60 units are on scene of the incident, saying it struck multiple vehicles near the airport.

“Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught fire as a result of this crash, with heavy flames and smoke showing,” Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said in an X post. “Firefighters are working on extinguishing the fire and assessing patients.”

In a statement to Global News, Amazon said an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami airport.

“This is a fast-moving situation and we’re still gathering details. We’re working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened,” Kelly Nantel, a spokesperson for Amazon said in an email. “Right now, our absolute priority is the safety, well-being, and care of everyone involved. We’re doing everything we can to support those affected.”

—with files from The Associated Press

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A Chicago aquarium says several of the belugas that were transferred to its site from Ontario’s Marineland have health issues.

Shedd Aquarium says in a Friday statement it is conducting round-the-clock supervision and teams are monitoring the whales’ hydration, breathing rates, swim patterns, social interaction and other behaviours.

The aquarium’s update comes after it reported last week that two of the three whales that died at its site in a week’s span were belugas from Marineland, a theme park in Niagara Falls, Ont., that closed after it ran out of money.

Shedd has said that Peekachu, one of the Marineland belugas, died on Aug. 25 at its site two weeks after being relocated.

A 20-year-old beluga named Rain, that was moved from Marineland to the Chicago park in mid-August, also died, as well as a 34-year-old beluga that had lived for decades in Chicago.

Amid the spate of deaths, the Shedd Aquarium says there is still uncertainty surrounding the health of the remaining animals and it is awaiting lab results as the park investigates the deaths.

“Some of the rescued belugas are showing more encouraging signs than others, but several have presented clinical concerns,” Shedd wrote in the statement Friday. “Their condition can change from day to day and, at times, hour to hour.”

The aquarium said belugas get most of their hydration through the fish they eat and while some of the rescued whales are eating regularly, others are not.

As a whole, Shedd said none of the belugas are “where we want them to be from a health standpoint.”

The Marineland belugas were given a clean bill of health in the days before their relocations, with Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson responsible for giving the final approval.

Marineland, which is now up for sale, completed the largest collective move of captive whales the world has ever seen last week, shipping 30 belugas and four dolphins to five aquariums in the United States and Spain over several weeks.

The final move last week brought an end to whale captivity in Canada.

Before their transfers, Marineland threatened to euthanize them if it did not get an emergency cash infusion after the federal government blocked an earlier plan to move the whales to China.

Multiple whales have died after being relocated.

In 2021, Marineland moved five whales to Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

Two of those whales died within a year of the move and the third died two years after the transfer. Mystic said the whales had pre-existing conditions while Marineland said they were healthy when they left.

Nineteen belugas, one killer whale and one dolphin died at Marineland between 2019 and 2025.

— with files from Liam Casey

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Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, a claim that the U.S. military dismissed as a “total lie.”

The purported attack came a day after the U.S. military said forces struck three Iranian oil tankers in response to Navy warships being targeted with ballistic missiles. Experts called it a dangerous escalation after Iran’s previous attacks at sea targeted commercial shipping.

The war began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28. But since a fragile ceasefire agreement was announced in June, on-and-off fighting has persisted, with both sides trying to inflict military and economic pain as negotiations have collapsed.

Strikes came about a week after fighting resumed

The United States and Iran resumed attacks last week, following a month of relative calm, with the Strait of Hormuz and areas along Iran’s southern coast again being targeted. At least five people were killed earlier in the week during a U.S. bombardment that returned attention to the area where a school was hit in the war’s opening strikes.

The Trump administration appears to have adopted a dual-prong approach to the conflict, responding militarily to attacks on the strait while going after foreign financial institutions that handle Iran’s money.

But Tehran’s hard-line new senior leaders have signaled a willingness to dig in after weathering decades of sanctions. Iran has found ways over the years to circumvent sanctions, and now a U.S. blockade of its ports, and get its oil to buyers to help ease growing economic pressures. That relies in part on a shadow fleet transporting its oil.

US says million barrels of oil a day pass through the strait

Tehran’s new leverage focuses on the Strait of Hormuz that is crucial to global oil and natural gas shipments. It was seen as an international waterway before the war began.

On Sunday, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that on average, 9 million barrels of oil a day are getting through the strait, which should help to relieve pressure on energy prices. His estimate appeared to exceed average flows over the past 28 days through the strait, according to TankerTrackers.com and other sources.

Wright told CNN that with oil also flowing through pipelines in the region, “we’re probably two-thirds or more of pre-conflict flows.”

But those flows depend on the presence of the U.S. Navy to help escort tankers and provide some protection against possible Iranian attack. Wright said he expected that other countries would eventually support the Navy’s efforts.

Meanwhile, Iran’s nuclear program, the issue that contributed to the outbreak of the war, was meant to be addressed in negotiations that fell apart soon after the U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-June.

Diplomats say the U.S., Britain, France and Germany now seek to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for failure to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations.

—Magdy reported from Cairo and Frankel reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writer Konstantin Toropin in Washington and Josh Boak in Bridgewater, New Jersey, contributed to this report.

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U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held “encouraging” talks in Kyiv on Sunday in their first official visit to Ukraine as part of a renewed push to end more than four-and-a-half years of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

The trip by the Americans follows a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday, as both sides have escalated their aerial attacks. Washington’s push to end the fighting has lost momentum, with the Trump administration focused for the past six months on the Iran war.

Russia has recently been using fast-flying, jet-powered drones, and the recurring wail of air-raid sirens has become part of daily life in Kyiv. Troops have struggled to make progress along the 1,250-kilometer (775-mile) front line.

Following two rounds of discussion with the U.S. officials, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the goal was a “just, fair peace” that would ensure there was “never an opportunity to resume aggression against Ukraine.”

He also thanked the American negotiators, who traveled by train, for coming to Kyiv, their first time in Ukraine. Zelenskyy said the next round of talks later Sunday would bring in national security advisers from Britain, France and Germany.

“We’ve had very meaningful discussion, substantive, important, and we’re very encouraged,” Witkoff said.

Kushner said that President Donald Trump sees it as important “not just to figure out how do we end the current war,” but how do create the conditions for durable peace.

A senior Ukrainian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak publicly, said that much of the discussion was focused on “how to get through the winter and what can be done before then.”

No breakthroughs in Moscow talks

Saturday’s meeting in Moscow lasted more than three hours behind closed doors and ended without any major developments being announced. Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, described the talks as constructive, frank and useful, but he didn’t discuss specific outcomes.

While Moscow offered its “comprehensive assessment” of the battlefield situation in Ukraine, Ushakov said, the talks weren’t purely focused on the war in Ukraine.

“Economic issues and potentially large, mutually beneficial joint projects for Russia and America were discussed in considerable detail,” he said.

The last known visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, was in January when they also held talks with Putin at the Kremlin.

Russia and Ukraine continue to exchange fire

Putin and Zelenskyy had agreed to pause strikes on each other’s capitals while the talks take place. Still, the two traded fire overnight into Sunday, officials said.

Russian attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions killed one person and wounded at least 10 others overnight into Sunday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

In Zaporizhzhia, drone strikes killed a 74-year-old man and wounded three people, while a drone damaged an apartment building, wounding seven people, in the Khmelnytskyi region.

Ukraine’s air force said Sunday that it intercepted 82 drones out of the 108 launched by Russia overnight, along with six missiles.

In Russia, a man was killed and a woman was seriously wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, local authorities in the Belgorod border region said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that its air defenses overnight shot down 258 Ukrainian drones over 14 Russian regions, the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula and the waters of the Black and Azov Seas.

Mixed hopes on the ground

In Kyiv on Sunday, dozens gathered for a nationwide 9 a.m. moment of silence honoring Ukraine’s fallen soldiers, a daily ritual held in cities across the country.

Nataliia Lipei, 67, whose son Viktor was killed in December 2022, was among those who attended. Despite a health condition, she has traveled from city to city to take part, and she said that she hopes the talks in Moscow and Kyiv will finally bring an end to the war.

“I hope these steps and these meetings will definitely produce results, because there has been so much bloodshed and so many deaths here that we have to stop all of this,” Lipei told The Associated Press.

Not everyone shared her hope for the talks. Oleksandr Pastukhov, a 27-year-old video editor who joined the commemoration, was skeptical that the envoys’ visit would change anything.

“We’ve already seen delegations like this come here before,” he said. “We’ve seen this so-called ceasefire for three days, which ended after just a couple of hours, and now we’re supposed to naively think that two people will come and change something.”

In his Sunday prayer, Pope Leo XIV renewed his appeal for peace in Ukraine and said he hopes the negotiations will bring results.

“I hope that the efforts undertaken in recent days to resume negotiations will bear concrete fruit and make way for diplomacy,” he told the gathered faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

___ Associated Press journalists Volodymyr Yurchuk and Yevhenii Ocheretianyi in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Elise Morton in London contributed to this report.

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Nova Scotia’s premier says the province is in mourning after a woman died during the flooding that affected the province this weekend.

Nova Scotia RCMP said Sunday they had located the body of a Cleveland, N.S. woman after she went missing the previous morning. Police said they had found her vehicle parked near her residence on the far side of a flooded bridge. Her death is not believed to be suspicious, RCMP said.

“My thoughts are with her loved ones and everyone who is grieving this tragic loss,” said Premier Tim Houston on X.

The woman’s death comes as states of emergency remained in effect for three counties on Cape Breton Island Sunday morning after heavy rain washed out roads, with more in the forecast.

Environment Canada forecasted up to 120 millimetres of rain in some areas between Friday and Monday. Some regions were even forecast to see rainfall of 10 millimetres per hour.

Inverness, Victoria and Richmond counties all declared local emergencies Saturday due to severe flooding and widespread damage.

Multiple roads have been closed, the province said in its emergency alert, and conditions remained dangerous.

In Richmond County, more than 200 millimetres have been reported, with bodies of water like the River Tillard nearly touching bridges that stretch over it.

Some roads were also washed out, including near Marble Mountain in Inverness County, where a large hole could be found where the concrete gave way into the water.

Environment Canada has ended warnings for Nova Scotia, but advised on Sunday that another 10 to 20 mm of rain was possible. The national weather service did say the heaviest rain would taper off Sunday morning, though some showers could continue into Monday.

According to the weather agency, more than 100 millimetres was recorded in several parts of Cape Breton, including 130mm in Ingonish Beach and 105mm in Sydney.

Houston said Saturday afternoon he had joined Richmond MLA Trevor Boudreau earlier in the day at the command centre in Port Hawkesbury to speak with the team about the “extensive damage.”

He said on X that crews were assessing the damage, but the full extent would not be known until after the storm ends and floodwaters recede.

“Once this storm has passed, we will pull crews and equipment where needed from other areas of the province to repair roads and infrastructure as fast as we can,” he said.

Nova Scotia Emergency Management said in its own X post that as flooding was affecting roads across Cape Breton and eastern mainland Nova Scotia, people should stay off the roads unless “absolutely necessary.”

“Road conditions can change quickly, and flooded roads may be damaged or unsafe,” it said.

People are asked to check conditions before leaving, follow all road closures and barricades, don’t drive through floodwater, and turn around if drivers encounter flooding or a damaged road.

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Saraman Curry

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

Total Time: ~3 hours

Ingredients

· 1 kg (2.2 lbs) Beef short ribs (boneless), cut into 1-inch cubes

· ¼ cup Canola oil (or other neutral cooking oil)

· ¼ cup Cashews (whole or roughly chopped)

· ¼ cup Red curry paste

· 1 Cinnamon stick

· 3 Whole cloves

· 1 Star anise

· 3 Makrut lime leaves (standard for Southeast Asian curries)

· 3 Tbsp Fish sauce

· 1 Tbsp Palm sugar (brown sugar works as a substitute)

· 2 cups Coconut cream

· 1 cup Kabocha squash, cubed

· 1 Liter (~4 cups) Beef broth

· To taste: Salt and black pepper

· For serving: Jasmine rice or rice noodles

Instructions

1. Sear the Beef: Work in batches to avoid crowding the pot.

Heat the canola oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot (like a Dutch oven) over medium heat. Add the cubed beef short ribs and sear until lightly browned on all sides.

2. Bloom the Spices and Curry Paste:

Once the beef has some color, add the red curry paste, cashews, cinnamon stick, cloves, star anise, and lime leaves. Cook and stir constantly for 1 to 2 minutes until the paste is highly fragrant and coats the beef.

3. Build the Braising Liquid:

Pour in the coconut cream, fish sauce, and palm sugar. Stir well, making sure to scrape up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot.

4. Simmer the Curry: 2 to 2.5 hours.

Stir in the beef broth and bring the mixture to a gentle simmer. Turn the heat down to low, add kabocha squash, cover partially, and let it cook for just over 2 hours, stirring occasionally. The curry is ready when the beef is completely fork-tender and the sauce has reduced and thickened.

5. Season and Serve:

Taste the curry and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper as needed. Serve hot over a bed of jasmine rice or rice noodles.

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