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Tom Hardy may still have a place on the “MobLand” set. It recently made headlines that the actor was fired from the show and would be scrapped from the third season due to alleged clashes with producers on set. His unbecoming attitude towards some members of the crew reportedly fueled the decision to kick him off the hit crime show. Tom Hardy does not have a clean slate when it comes to fallouts on set. Reports, however, suggest that the movie star is taking a break to rest as the demands of his physical roles have left him “falling to…

The national statistics agency INEGI on Friday confirmed that Mexico’s economy contracted during the first quarter of the year, but not as much as the preliminary data had suggested. Even so, GDP registered its biggest drop since the fourth quarter of 2014, shrinking 0.6% in the January-March period compared to the previous three months. It was also the worst first quarter since 2020, when the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic caused the economy to shrink by 1.2%.  At -1.7%, the steepest decline was the primary sector, which includes agriculture. (Unsplash) The first-quarter contraction revived concerns about a possible technical recession,…

Follow along on CFL’s game tracker as the Montreal Alouettes host the Ottawa REDBLACKS in preseason action.

In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been recreated using AI and were circulating on the internet. NTSB is prohibited by federal law from including cockpit audio recordings in its docket system, which otherwise contains troves of data on investigations and has historically been open to the public. But the accident docket for this flight included a spectrogram file of the voice recorder. A spectrogram uses a mathematical process to…

Serena Williams posted a brief message on Instagram this week. She didn’t add context or an explanation. “Someone told me I need to slow down…” she wrote. The post collected nearly 30,000 likes. The response was warm and almost instant. Williams stepped away from professional tennis in September 2022. She played her last match at the US Open that year. It was the end of a career unlike anything women’s tennis had ever seen. She won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals across three decades. She redefined the sport and became one of the most iconic…

When Victor Bal walks across the stage to collect his mechanical engineering degree at Polytechnique Montréal, his service dog Kopeck will be by his side — just as she’s been for every single class. When Bal was 12, he was one of the first students to attend classes with a service dog that was trained by Quebec’s Mira foundation to support youth with autism spectrum disorder. Now the foundation says that at age 27, Bal is among the first people to have benefited from a Mira ASD service dog to graduate from university.“She’s my partner, she’s my ally,” he said of Kopeck, an eight-year-old Labrador/Bernese Mountain Dog cross. “Not long ago I called her my shield and sword to face the world, because she…

An Edmonton judge has found a dog owner guilty of criminal negligence causing death after a dog attack two years ago killed an 11-year-old boy.Kache Grist was killed on April 1, 2024, at the south Edmonton home of Crystal Jean MacDonald, 46, after her two Cane Corsos attacked him.Following the death, an autopsy found Kache died from a dog bite injury to the neck. The autopsy also documented injuries to his upper back, shoulders and arms.Justice Eric Macklin said the Crown needed to prove three elements beyond a reasonable doubt for this offence: that the accused failed to take the…

(Photo: FOX) Once again, there’s no need to worry about MasterChef being cancelled right now. Last year, FOX renewed the series for two years, through season 17. Will MasterChef be cancelled or renewed beyond that? Stay tuned. A cooking competition series, the MasterChef TV show features returning judges award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay and renowned restaurateur Joe Bastianich, as well as James Beard Award-nominee Tiffany Derry. In the 16th season, a new batch of home cooks step into the kitchen to represent their ethnic roots in hopes of becoming America’s Next MasterChefs. In the spirit of the World Cup coming to…

(Photo: The CW) Viewer interest in law enforcement series has ebbed and flowed over the years but the Police 24/7 series was one of The CW’s highest-rated unscripted series last year. Will that interest continue? Will Police 24/7 be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned. A law enforcement docuseries, the Police 24/7 TV show takes viewers along for the ride and follows police officers, on duty and off. The series delivers raw, unfiltered access into the world of sheriffs and police departments across the country as they serve and protect at all costs. You never know what to…

SpaceX has launched the upgraded third version of its Starship rocket for the first time, though the test launch did not go perfectly for Elon Musk’s spaceflight company. The 407-foot rocket — the most powerful ever built — lifted off from SpaceX’s company town Starbase, Texas, at 5:30 p.m. local time. Just a few minutes later, the upper stage ship separated from the Super Heavy booster and continued on into space. The booster pitched away from the Starship vehicle and headed back to Earth, where it was supposed to perform a simulated landing in the Gulf of Mexico. But the…