A view from Venezuela as tensions climb

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• Why Alberta separatists have an outsized influence on politics
• Meet the intimacy coordinator for the gay romantic hockey drama Heated Rivalry
• Former child influencer EvanTube reflects on lessons from his very online life
• Metroid Prime 4 is finally here. Should you play it?
• Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz

A soccer fan explains why it was easier, and possibly cheaper, to travel to the World Cup in Qatar than to get tickets for this year's event in Canada.

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• BC struggles with how to care for people with severe mental illness
• What do we actually know about Shakespeare and his son Hamnet?
• How Whatever's podcast Dating Talk is radicalizing young men
• The basketball dynasty that helped shape Haida Gwaii identity
• Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz

The Nation's Jeet Heer says Epstein built an influential global network fit for a warlord.

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• Vine gets a reboot
• Settler violence threatens the possibility of a Palestinian state
• The hidden history of a 1969 anti-racism protest in Montreal
• What happens when men opt out of university and college
• Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.

PLUS: A better way to run a U.N. climate conference; Why pro sports can't quit prop bets; Why more Canadians are facing rising debt and delinquency rates; Crisis or coup at the BBC?; and Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.

PLUS: The case for government-run grocery stores; the decline of 24 Sussex; mass killings in Sudan; the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; and Riffed from the Headlines.

PLUS: The Blue Jays bet on themselves; Intensifying tropical storms; Why women face more discrimination working in person; Building boundaries in your relationship with AI ; An Ojibwe chef re-writes the rules of fine dining; and a musical headline quiz.

PLUS: Who killed the Montreal Expos?; Frustration at the polls for Albertans; More aid needed for Gaza; Prince Andrew as a Royal liability; and Riffed from The Headlines.

PLUS: South Park is having a moment; Thomas Pynchon's timely new novel; stemming loneliness with kindness; and the life of legendary actor John Candy.