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The sustained attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs have left corporate America hesitant to speak out forcefully on LGBTQ+ issues—and that silence has not gone unnoticed.  Companies that once boasted about being recognized by the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index have now stopped participating in the annual ranking, which measures workplace inclusion for LGBTQ+ employees. While some companies have resumed sponsoring Pride celebrations this year, a number of employers had paused those commitments or were hesitant to very publicly support Pride events; even as companies have increased that spending, corporate sponsorships for Pride have remained below pre-pandemic levels. …

Getting close to maxing out your PS5’s SSD? You have a few choices: either start deleting some of those meaty RPGs, pronto, or get used to paying the kind of money SanDisk is charging for its new, officially licensed storage expansion drives. The Optimus GX Pro 850P NVMe SSD is among a number of new SanDisk drives that have been rebranded from the previous WD_Black naming convention. Designed with the PS5 and PS5 Pro in mind, it’s available in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB and 8TB variants, with the top-end model priced at a truly eye-watering $2,960. And according to SanDisk’s website,…

Just months after his One Battle After Another Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor, Sean Penn is firmly fixing his sights on a new project: a yet untitled movie about the early life of a cop who gets caught up in the infamous January 6th riots at the U.S Capitol. Deadline has reported that Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, American Sniper) is in talks as the frontrunner for the lead role, but this is not yet confirmed. Cooper and Penn have previously starred together in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2021 film Licorice Pizza. Based on the true story of one of the…

BOSTON — Generations of Boston families played and picnicked on the grassy, sloping lawns of the Bunker Hill Monument. Musket balls and other artifacts from one of the American Revolution’s most consequential battles were buried just below their feet the entire time. Inspired by a centuries-old map, archaeologists have been digging in the park that sits on the site where American patriots hastily constructed an earthen fort to slow advancing British forces at what became known as the Battle of Bunker Hill. Ground-penetrating radar identified potential locations for the fort in Boston’s Charlestown section. Soon after digging the first trench,…

Jane Channell (Garrett Wollman, Wikimedia Commons) Canadian skeleton star Jane Channell of North Vancouver, British Columbia retired at the age of 37 according to ibsf.org on Tuesday. Channell won the silver medal in the mixed team skeleton competition at the 2020 International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, was third in the 2016 World Cup women’s skeleton standings, and won four World Cup medals (two silver medals and two bronze medals). Channell’s silver medal at the 2020 IBSF World Championships came in mixed skeleton, and she finished in second by the slimmest of margins. Channell teamed up…

Courtesy: CFL. The New Orleans Saints have waived Canadian receiver Damien Alford with an injury designation, the team announced on Wednesday. According to sources, the injury is not long-term, likely keeping him out for one to two weeks. The six-foot-five, 224-pound target signed with the team in January after an NFL workout tour that also included a stop with the New York Jets. 3DownNation reported at the time that Alford also received workout interest from the Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, and Denver Broncos. The 25-year-old played 15 regular-season games with the Calgary Stampeders in 2025. He made 20…

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is not saying if it will act on a parliamentary committee report that’s expected to recommend against making people with mental illness eligible for medical assistance in dying. MPs and senators tasked with determining whether Canada is ready to expand eligibility for assisted dying to those whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness are set to report to Parliament. Many of the witnesses who testified urged the committee to permanently exclude people with psychiatric conditions from accessing MAID. A source with knowledge of the report told The Canadian Press the committee was divided but…

Ontario police have shut down a large contraband cigarette manufacturing plant on a First Nation’s reserve that was allegedly run by non-Indigenous criminal networks accused of exploiting indigenous lands to cover their activities. The bootleg cigarette plant was staffed by 13 people identified as foreign nationals, police said after the raids. Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Six Nations Police Service seized five complete commercial-sized cigarette manufacturing lines, a handgun, and tobacco products with an estimated street value of more than $10 million, police said Wednesday. The products seized include more than 40,000 kilograms of contraband tobacco…

Carvana just announced something rather unusual. It turned a pre-existing car dealership into a test drive center, with an emphasis on “customer exploration and discovery.” This particular location is in Dallas, but the company has been buying up dealerships throughout the country, with plans for more test drive centers. These dealerships will sell new vehicles from Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram, so it looks like consumers will not be able to try out used cars. So what’s the difference between this and a standard car dealership? Carvana says that the staff will “focus on support, not sales.” It says they…

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have signed American defensive lineman Savio Frazier, the team announced on Wednesday. He originally signed with the Stampeders on Nov. 19, 2025, and was released on May 13. RELATED» AMSOIL Power Rankings: Who leads the race?» Prediction Time: CFL.ca writers’ Week 3 picks» Weekly Predictor: Who wins in Week 3?» Buy tickets for the 2026 CFL season» Subscribe to the CFL’s newsletter for exclusive offers and league updates He transferred to Miami after three seasons at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. In 33 career games for the Bears, Frazier accumulated 74 tackles including 12 tackles for loss, 1.5…