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Sharks name 20-year-old Macklin Celebrini youngest captain in franchise history — 2dSharks named 20-year-old Macklin Celebrini captain on Sept. 25, 2026, the youngest in franchise history; Joe Thornton presented the 'C'.

Sam Okafor This is a smart bet on Celebrini leading their rebuild from the start.

Enablence Closes C$25 Million Chip-Capacity Investment — Sep 19, 2026Enablence Technologies raised C$25 million in a private placement of 3,226,000 shares at C$7.75 to Collingwood Investments to fund expansion of capacity at its Silicon Valley and Vietnam fabrication sites and to bolster working capital amid growing datacom and AI demand, with investor rights and final TSX Venture Exchange approval being noted. The deal strengthens the company’s balance sheet and positions it to scale production, pending regulatory clearance.

Elena Vasquez This funding at 7.75 a share should let Enablence scale production fast enough to catch the AI orders.

Taltson Names CFO, Closes C$85,000 Placement — 6dTaltson Critical Minerals appointed Casey Forward as Chief Financial Officer and a director, succeeding Heath Ellingham who resigned. The company also closed a non-brokered private placement of 2,125,000 units at $0.04 for about $85,000, with an insider purchasing a significant stake.

Jared Kim An insider taking a big stake in the units is a positive signal that management sees value in the minerals assets.

Basecamp Research Raises $140M for AI Therapies — 4dBasecamp Research announced a $140 million Series C funding, led by S32 with broad participation from tech and philanthropic investors, to train a new generation of EDEN models and advance its AI-designed therapeutics including in vivo cell therapies, while expanding pharmaceutical partnerships. Andy Conrad of Section 32 will join Basecamp’s board as the round underscored the round’s oversubscribed nature and investor confidence in AI-driven drug design.

Chris Dalton Partnering with pharma companies early on should help turn these AI designs into something that works in real clinical settings.

Has the economy gone C-shaped? : Planet MoneyBusiness — Sep 8, 2026

Most Influential Women in World HistoryYourlist — RankingFrom ancient queens who ruled empires to modern activists who changed laws, these women left indelible marks on politics, science, and culture. Vote for who you think shaped history most profoundly.

TMX Group Prices C$1.1 Billion Private Debt OfferingBusiness — Sep 15, 2026TMX Group priced a C$1.1 billion private placement of senior unsecured debentures across three series (2028, 2033, 2036) to refinance existing debt and fund general corporate purposes, with an anticipated AA (Low) rating from DBRS and a close around September 22, 2026. The issue aims to strengthen financial flexibility and support post-trade modernization and broader market infrastructure initiatives.

Analysis Finds Strong Unions in Most States With Weak Literacy Policies — Sep 17, 2026A new analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute is examining a notable connection among teachers’ union strength, early-literacy policies, and reading performance across the c… — by Andrew Powell

Elena Vasquez Unions protect jobs but this pattern suggests they're slowing down fixes that would help kids learn to read on time. States need to act anyway.

Pamela Anderson says hepatitis C was ‘death sentence’ that ‘took everything I had in my bank’ — Sep 8, 2026

FCC chairman says spectrum auctions could raise over $100 billion — Sep 16, 2026FCC Chair Brendan Carr said U.S. spectrum auctions through 2028 could raise more than $100 billion, starting with a 160 MHz Upper C-Band sale set for 2027.

Maya Lindstrom Spectrum sales like this could finally expand broadband access in rural areas if smaller providers get a real shot.

Pamela Anderson recalls doctors giving her 10 years to live following hepatitis C diagnosisEntertainment — Sep 8, 2026

Coherent Expands Pluggable Optical System to Support 25.6 Tbps AI Links — Sep 17, 2026Coherent unveiled an enhanced Pluggable Optical Line System in a compact QSFP form factor that supports full C-band amplification, 32 DWDM wavelengths, and up to 25.6 Tbps for 800G ZR/ZR+ optics with autonomous plug-and-play operation. The launch follows strong demand for AI datacenter interconnects, with the company already shipping in volume and reporting 34% revenue growth in the latest quarter, plus guidance for fiscal 2027.

Jim Carrey vs Adam SandlerYourlist — VS BattleRubber-faced mania versus deadpan slob comedy — two 90s comedy titans, two entirely different engines.

FC Cincinnati-D.C. United Match Postponed Over Weather — Sep 6, 2026FC Cincinnati's game against D.C. United was postponed due to inclement weather, with field conditions and player safety cited, and it will be rescheduled with tickets honored for the new date.

Maya Lindstrom Better safe than sorry, a bad field can lead to real injuries. Hope they get the makeup date sorted quickly for fans who traveled.

PLD Space extends Series C by €108 million to fund Miura 5 launch prep — Sep 1, 2026PLD Space has extended its Series C by another €108 million to €288 million, lifting total funding to about €488 million to accelerate the Miura 5’s industrialisation and transition to commercial operations with new investors including Mitsubishi Electric, Endeavor Catalyst and SOPEF. The company, which also won an ESA €158.9 million award, aims to launch its Miura 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou by 2026.

Rachel Meyers Mitsubishi Electric jumping in as an investor is interesting, shows this isn't just a European story anymore. Kourou 2026 will be the real test though.

UN warns world likely to overshoot 1.5°C, sees possible path back — Sep 2, 2026A group of UN-led assessments warn that the 1.5°C limit is increasingly likely to be breached in coming years, but still callable back down through a sustained overshoot-and-reduction pathway that combines rapid emission cuts with large-scale carbon removal. The consensus remains that while overshoot is not inevitable catastrophe, it will entail decades of heightened climate risks and requires urgent, bolder action across mitigation, adaptation, and governance to keep temperatures from rising further.

Tom Gallagher Betting on carbon removal tech that doesn't exist at scale yet feels like a plan built on hope, not engineering.

South Korea U-20 women reach World Cup round of 16 after late goals — Sep 13, 2026South Korea posted a string of advances across sports, rolling past Japan 100-83 to top Group A in the Asian Games basketball group stage and reach the quarterfinals, while in the Overwatch World Cup the national team swept its quarterfinals to reach the semifinals, and in the U-20 Women's World Cup the junior side defeated Ecuador 3-2 to finish second in Group C and advance to the Round of 16.

Dana Whitfield The basketball win over Japan plus the Overwatch sweep makes this a strong week overall for Korean teams.

Can you read data — or just vibes?Quizie — QuizFifteen questions on charts, stats, and the tricks numbers play. The rank tells everyone whether to trust your slides.

Lac Knife Project Included in Canada Investment Summit Deal Book — Sep 10, 2026Focus Graphite will attend the Canada Investment Summit 2026 in Toronto, with its Lac Knife Graphite Project included in the investment deal book, positioning it for engagement with global investors as Canada aims to catalyze C$1 trillion in five years. The Lac Knife project is high-grade and feasibility-stage with strong economics, though the 2023 study did not include the CTM ITC credit; applying a 30% refundable tax credit could materially improve upfront capital economics.

Chris Dalton The 2023 study missed the refundable credit which could cut upfront costs a lot if they rerun the numbers.

Scientists Warn Strong El Niño Could Harm Galápagos Wildlife — Sep 9, 2026Forecasts of a stronger-than-normal El Niño indicate the Galápagos could face significant ecological stress as sea temperatures rise about 2.2°C above average, threatening both marine food chains and terrestrial forests. The impact endangers iconic wildlife such as penguins, boobies, petrels, albatrosses, sea lions, and key habitat like Scalesia forests, with invasive plants compounding the risk and prompting a coordinated mitigation effort including invasive-plant removal and seed preservation.

Maya Lindstrom Sea lions might suffer most from the heat stress on top of everything else already hitting the islands.

Positron AI Raises $875M at $5B Valuation — Sep 10, 2026Positron AI raised $875 million in a two‑tranche Series C that values the company at $5 billion and will fund the tapeout of its Asimov memory‑first chip and the production ramp of Titan, as well as expanding manufacturing for its Atlas system deployed at Oracle Cloud. The round, co-led by NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, SemiAnalysis Capital, and Jim Clark, will also add new board members and accelerate LPDDR5X‑based memory bandwidth‑focused inference hardware designed for air‑ and liquid‑cooled data centers.

Maya Lindstrom Jim Clark backing the Atlas ramp at Oracle makes sense given his hardware history, though scaling Titan production will still face stiff competition.

Canada's trade surplus narrows to $769 million as imports rise sixth month — Sep 3, 2026Canada’s merchandise trade surplus narrowed to C$769 million in July as exports fell 2.3% and imports rose 2.2%, marking the fifth consecutive monthly surplus but the smallest since June’s revision. The weakness was led by energy and metal exports, while lingering Canada–U.S. tariff tensions and the forthcoming duties cloud the outlook for exports in August.