Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
‘RichTok’ Influencer Becca Bloom Shows Off Custom Invitations and ‘Most Valued Possession’ from Her Viral 2025 Wedding
NEED TO KNOW Becca Bloom shared a video on TikTok, filling her custom Louis Vuitton wedding box with several goodies from her viral Lake Como nuptials in August The ‘RichTok’ content creator wed software engineer David Pownall in 2025, which quickly captured the attention of the internet for its over-the-top flair In her new video,…
Read MoreCourt extends detention of bus driver who rammed into ultra-Orthodox protesters
Signs from mass haredi protest against draft law in Jerusalem, January 6, 2026. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Jerusalem Post) The court ordered the suspect held until January 15 to allow investigators to complete inquiries into the circumstances of the incident. The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended the detention of the bus driver linked to an accident…
Read MoreChina Launches Chip Material Probe as Export Curbs on Japan Take Effect
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. China’s Ministry of Commerce has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into dichlorosilane imported from Japan, a material widely used in thin films for logic, memory and analog semiconductors. The probe is expected to run for up to one year from Wednesday, with the option of a further six-month extension. The…
Read MoreThe Perils of Killing the Already Dead
He goes on to say that to behead a corpse is to follow the path of Satan, and that it is God, not a lip-smacking corpse, who holds power over life and death. But the pastor seems to know that merely forbidding corpse-killing is not enough to stop it. The superstitious beliefs need to be…
Read MoreDozens dead, thousands arrested, alleged Israeli spy executed as Iran protests move into day 11
Abdanan, Iran. January 6, 2025. (photo credit: SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT) Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has executed many people it has accused of having links with Israel’s intelligence service and facilitating its operations in the country. Protests in Iran moved into their eleventh day on Wednesday, and a man has…
Read MoreHarry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix”
For the cover of the January 12, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Harry Bliss used color and composition to contrast the warmth inside with the blistering cold outside. “While in art school, living off of ramen noodles, I’d peek into the windows of gorgeous old brownstones, imagining I lived there instead of in my freezing, roach-infested…
Read MoreAll Hail the Jamaican Patty
The leader of the fancy-patty movement, for me, though, is Bar Kabawa, the swanky, sexy East Village Daiquiri joint that’s attached to Kabawa, the chef Paul Carmichael’s marvellous Caribbean tasting-menu spot. Carmichael’s patties are cheffy and ambitious, for sure, with a dazzling array of creative fillings including curried crab with squash; pepper-pot-spiced duck with foie…
Read MoreJoan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
Sensing that she was losing the argument, Lowell rushed at Colcord, winding up to throw a punch before stopping short a few feet away from him. “If you weren’t so old,” she said, according to Colcord, before sitting back down. “God damn it!” she shouted. “No one has ever called me a liar before!” Both…
Read MoreHow Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Is Changing the Diamond Game
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In the antique-jewelry scene, the reveal was the equivalent of a Super Bowl victory. “I think I cried,” Marion Fasel, the author of “The History of Diamond Engagement Rings,” told me. “My vintage-jewelry world was so excited—they lost their minds.” Historically, old-mine-cut diamonds have been a niche obsession. Compared with the ubiquitous round-brilliant cut of…
Read MoreReading for the New Year
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in 2025 to identify the experiences that stood out. Here, a handful of writers make recommendations, as part of a series that will continue in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for…
Read MoreA Colombian city swaps iconic horse buggies for electric carriages amid animal welfare concerns
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian city of Cartagena began replacing its iconic horse buggies with electric carriages Tuesday, following years of protests by animal rights activists, who argued that horses pulling 19th-century-like coaches for tourists suffered from exploitation and poor health. In a sunny plaza lined with elegant colonial era mansions, Mayor Domek Turbay…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
No matter how low one’s expectations were for 2025, the most striking thing about the year when Donald Trump became President again is how much worse it turned out to be. Did we anticipate that Trump would come back to office wanting to rule as a king, consumed by revenge and retribution, and encouraged by…
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