Soon after New Age icon and bestselling author Carlos Castaneda died in 1998, a group of his most loyal followers vanished, and many believed they’d made a suicide pact. Geoffrey Gray investigates the writer’s bizarre cult and finds himself entangled in a web of murky financial dealings, sex, possible foul play—and one death-defying supernatural being.

Data drawn from labour market impact assessments — documents employers need to hire temporary foreign workers — shows the program is on the rise in a range of industries. The program's growth coincided with the government loosening hiring restrictions to help businesses with post-pandemic labour shortages. Some economists criticized that move, saying it undermined healthy competition for workers in a market economy. "All we hear about are labour shortages, [but] we have to begin to recognize that this really is a self-serving narrative mostly coming from corporate Canada," said Mikal Skuterud, a labour economics professor at the University of Waterloo. For businesses, a major benefit is stability, as the workers' permits are tied to their employer, meaning they can't easily quit to work for a rival business down the street. "It guarantees a worker will stay employed with them for the term of the agreement," says the Canadian Franchise Association on its website.

The finding contradicts the 2021 conclusion of the state medical examiner, who ruled that Birchmore, a young woman who was allegedly groomed by three former Stoughton police officers, died of suicide.

Two years post-"takeover," some longtime activists and donors have pulled their support, claiming the Mises Caucus is running the party into the ground.

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulators have fallen asleep on the job in curtailing AI data centers’ drain on energy and water resources.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty this week to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia, ending a long legal odyssey.

Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.

The plan includes liquidating assets to help pay the $1.5 billion Alex Jones owes for calling the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax.

Assimi Goïta, the transitional president of Mali has accused the French of trying to undermine the country’s current administration. The president alleged that France has been printing counterfeit CFA franc notes to damage Mali’s economy. As a result, he called for the adoption of a new locally produced currency.

At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.

RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.

Journalist Linda Tirado is dying after being shot by cops while covering the George Floyd protests. Her work told the story of poverty from the inside out.

Pro-independence leader Christian Tein among seven flown to the mainland after last month’s large-scale riots.

Cashing in as a "cancel culture" martyr is getting harder, so attention addicts have to get more extreme

Vandals targeted row after row of Tesla Cybertrucks stored in a nondescript Fort Lauderdale parking lot in an apparent vendetta against the company’s controversial CEO, Elon Musk.

The map above reveals a rather unconfutable truth if you're a Biden supporter or shows just how close Trump was to re-election if you're a Trump supporter. Overall, Biden got 7 million more votes than Trump in 2020 (81,283,501 vs 74,223,975). If we remove just 1 county from each state, Trump would have won.

Scientists have found microplastics in human penises for the first time, as concerns over their proliferation and its potential health effects continue to mount. I wanted my first dick pic post to be special. I'm glad I waited.

Many prisoners clean toilets and prep food with no pay – as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration

Jamaal Bowman's primary challenger George Latimer said the New York representative has an "ethnic advantage" in the district's Democratic primary.