Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Five face trial in Peru in rare prosecution over the killing of an Amazon defender
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that prosecutors and advocates say could test whether Peru can hold perpetrators accountable for violence linked to illegal logging and drug trafficking in one of the world’s most…
Read MoreAdrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation”
For the cover of the January 26, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Adrian Tomine depicted a scene that New Yorkers often encounter in the depths of winter. “I inevitably see some suntanned subway rider, just back from a beachy getaway, and it almost seems like they’re gloating,” Tomine said. “In all fairness, I’ve occasionally been that…
Read MoreThe Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting
“Self-Portrait with Black Background” (1915).Art work by Helene Schjerfbeck / Courtesy Finnish National Gallery / Metropolitan Museum of Art; Photograph by Hannu Aaltonen In 1883, Schjerfbeck travelled to Brittany, where her first coup of ingenuity arrived, with paintings like “Clothes Drying” (1883) and “The Door” (1884). By filtering the grammar of naturalism through a fine…
Read MoreHow to Kill a Fish
A full week later, when I unwrapped the bonito fillets that Yamasaki had sent me home with, I was amazed to find the skin undiminished, the flesh a rosy pink. I’d grown used to being disappointed by fish from the supermarket, its flavor so often muddy or bitter, with the occasional bracing whiff of ammonia.…
Read MoreVietnam opens pivotal Communist Party meeting to pick top leaders
Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party on Monday opened its National Congress, a closely watched political gathering that will determine the country’s top leadership for the next five years and set its policy direction. The 14th National Congress, which runs through Sunday, is the country’s most important political event. It is held every five years. In the…
Read MoreArctic attack to start the week, another to finish and it may come with snow
A cold weekend is in the books. The weekend started with an arctic attack that generated snow flurries and kept highs below freezing Saturday. The cold relaxed a little Sunday, but this was after beginning the day with single-digit lows. Another arctic attack is already sweeping in from the north, and it will make for…
Read MoreMy children were recruited in a trafficking scam. I joined a police hunt to find them
Foday Musa looked broken as he listened to the last voice message he received from his son. It is 76 seconds long and the young man sounds desperate. He is crying, begging for his father’s help. “It’s so hard to hear. Hearing his voice hurts me,” Musa told BBC Africa Eye, which was given exclusive…
Read MoreMore than 60 Labour MPs urge PM to ban social media for under-16s
More than 60 Labour MPs have called on the prime minister to impose a ban on under-16s access to social media platforms. In a open letter to Sir Keir Starmer on Sunday, the 61 MPs said “successive governments” had done “too little to protect young people from… unregulated, addictive social media platforms”. They urged him…
Read MoreIran projects calm amid blackout, labels protesters as ‘armed aggressors’
NetBlocks reported that at hour 238 of the digital blackout, there was a “significant return to some online services, including Google, suggesting that heavily filtered access has been enabled.” Tehran intensified efforts to portray normalcy across state television, with media outlets such as Russian-linked Viory and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) pushing headlines…
Read MoreHelen, Help Me: On the Phenomenology of Cheeseburgers
A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. Source link
Read MoreActs of Self-Destruction
Friedkin’s film sucked much of the humor and twisted romance from the play, I realized, treating it as straight horror. Although I have some issues with the latest interpretation, directed by David Cromer (it veers hokey, and it is missing the feeling of the vertiginous, the fear that we might be at risk of falling…
Read MoreUgandan leader extends 40-year rule after winning contested poll
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of Thursday’s election extending his four decades in power by another five years. He gained 72% of the vote, the election commission announced, against 25% for his closest challenger Bobi Wine, who has condemned what he described as “fake results” and “ballot stuffing”. Wine has not…
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