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Canberra Weighs Breaking Up the Big Four After KPMG’s Year From Hell

Australia's Treasury released a consultation paper Wednesday proposing to split the Big Four's audit and consulting arms and cap partnerships at 400, the strongest regulatory response yet to a KPMG whistleblower scandal

July 2, 2026

Business·News

Flexible endoscopy fibers and instruments used in colonoscopy procedures

Ontario Lowers Colon Cancer Screening Age to 45 as Younger Patients Keep Showing Up

Ontario lowered its routine colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45 on July 1, joining P.E.I., after surgeons reported a rising number of patients in their twenties and thirties. Advocates now

July 2, 2026

Health·News

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews

Trump Personally Pocketed $10.7 Million From the Amazon Documentary About His Own Wife

Trump's latest financial disclosure shows he personally collected a $10.7 million licensing fee from Amazon MGM Studios for the Melania documentary, on top of $521,000 from her memoir, reviving a congressional inquiry

July 2, 2026

Business·Government and Politics·News

Psilocybe cubensis, the psilocybin-containing mushroom species used in Australia's authorised psychedelic-assisted therapy program

Australia Just Let Psychiatrists Leave the Room During Psychedelic Therapy

Australia's drug regulator has dropped the requirement that a psychiatrist stay in the room throughout psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions. Psychiatrists call it an unjustifiable risk to patient safety; other clinicians say the old

July 2, 2026

Health·News

Influencer Nara Smith, who revealed her daughter Whimsy's cancer diagnosis

Nara Smith Kept Her Daughter’s Cancer Private for Months. Now She’s Telling the Internet Why.

Nara Smith revealed her 2-year-old daughter Whimsy was diagnosed with cancer last year and has been undergoing chemotherapy, a diagnosis the influencer and her husband Lucky Blue Smith chose to keep private

July 2, 2026

Entertainment·Health·News

A person's hands typing on a smartphone, illustrating the Canadian wireless fee dispute

Canada’s Telecom Regulator Orders Bell, Rogers and Telus to Justify Banned Fees

Canada's telecom regulator opened a formal show-cause proceeding against Bell, Rogers and Telus after all three carriers said they would keep charging fees the CRTC's new junk-fee ban was written to outlaw.

July 2, 2026

Business·News

Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, where the health minister commented on global drug pricing pressures

Australia Loses a Lifesaving Opioid Drug as Trump’s Pricing Push Ripples Out

Indivior is pulling the opioid dependence treatment Sublocade from Australia by the end of 2026, and the country's health minister says global drug pricing is in an 'enormous state of flux' as

July 2, 2026

Health·News

Vials of mRNA vaccine stored in a NIAID laboratory freezer

The Largest mRNA Vaccine Review Yet Says Safe. Washington Has Said Otherwise

A sweeping Lancet review led by UBC researchers, drawing on billions of administered doses, finds mRNA vaccines safe and effective and points to cancer vaccines next. It arrives as the US health

July 2, 2026

Health·News·Science

A little brown bat, the species most commonly linked to bat rabies exposures in Ontario

A Bat Left No Mark on This 11-Year-Old. Rabies Killed Him Anyway

An 11-year-old Ontario boy died of rabies 19 days after waking up with a bat on his face, with no bite or scratch anyone could see. Doctors are publishing his case now

July 2, 2026

Health·News

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese official portrait

Labor’s Gambling Ad Bill Reaches Parliament and Immediately Loses Both Flanks

Australia's long-delayed gambling advertising bill finally reached parliament this week, three years after the Murphy report recommended a full ban. Within a day, the Coalition and the Greens joined forces to send

July 2, 2026

Government and Politics·News

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Canberra Weighs Breaking Up the Big Four After KPMG’s Year From Hell

Ontario Lowers Colon Cancer Screening Age to 45 as Younger Patients Keep Showing Up

Trump Personally Pocketed $10.7 Million From the Amazon Documentary About His Own Wife

Australia Just Let Psychiatrists Leave the Room During Psychedelic Therapy

Nara Smith Kept Her Daughter’s Cancer Private for Months. Now She’s Telling the Internet Why.

Canada’s Telecom Regulator Orders Bell, Rogers and Telus to Justify Banned Fees

Australia Loses a Lifesaving Opioid Drug as Trump’s Pricing Push Ripples Out

The Largest mRNA Vaccine Review Yet Says Safe. Washington Has Said Otherwise

A Bat Left No Mark on This 11-Year-Old. Rabies Killed Him Anyway

Labor’s Gambling Ad Bill Reaches Parliament and Immediately Loses Both Flanks

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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