Canadian Insolvencies Hit 17-Year High as Homeowner Filings Surge 11% in a Quarter

Canadian insolvencies climbed to their highest level since 2009 in the first quarter, rising 18.8% year-over-year, according to Equifax Canada’s Q1 market pulse report on consumer credit. The numbers land as mortgage renewals continue pushing households into rates they never planned for — and the stress is sharpest among the people with the most to […]

Minera Alamos Sees Net Earnings Rise To $10.9 Million In Q1

Minera Alamos (TSXV: MAI) put up a clean sheet of quarterly records in its first three months of 2026, with the gold producer posting fresh records across several metrics. Revenue came in at US$39.2 million, edging out the roughly US$31 million equivalent of the C$43.6 million reported in Q4 2025. Net earnings of US$10.9 million, […]

Vizsla Silver Lands Mexican Government-Backed Credit Facility for Panuco

Vizsla Silver Corp. (TSX: VZLA) has secured a modest but meaningful vote of confidence from Mexico City, with its local subsidiary Minera Canam inking an unsecured MXN$173 million working capital facility with Fideicomiso de Fomento Minero, the state-backed mining lender known as FIFOMI. At roughly US$10 million, the facility is hardly transformative for a company […]

Trump Pushes Uranium Handover As US Strikes Iran Amid Ceasefire

The US is no longer just negotiating an Iran ceasefire. It is testing whether that ceasefire can survive enforcement. US forces struck targets in southern Iran on Monday after American officials said Iranian military activity created direct threats to US troops and aircraft. Reuters reported that US Central Command described the operation as defensive, with […]

Leaked Docs Show Outline Russian Plan To Replace Armenia’s Incumbent PM

Armenia’s election risk is shifting from whether Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has opponents to whether those opponents can be engineered into a single bloc before voters go to the polls on June 7. That is the central mechanism inside the alleged Russian intelligence documents now circulating through Armenian and regional media. The materials do not […]

OnlyFans Hack Hoax Raises Fake Leak Checker Malware Risk

A weakly verified OnlyFans breach claim is creating a more immediate cybersecurity risk than the alleged database itself: users frightened by a viral “hack” narrative may become targets for fake leak-checking tools built to steal passwords, browser data, payment details, and crypto wallets. The trigger was a cybercrime-forum listing for what a seller claimed was […]

Taiwan Overtakes India as World’s Fifth-Largest Stock Market, Powered by TSMC’s AI Rally

Taiwan’s stock market surpassed India’s on Monday, climbing to $4.95 trillion against India’s $4.92 trillion, according to Bloomberg data, making Taiwan the fifth-largest equity market globally, behind the US, mainland China, Japan, and Hong Kong. It is almost entirely a TSMC story. The chipmaker accounts for 42% of Taiwan’s benchmark index, its shares have rallied […]