Canadian pension plans are flush with record surplus on soaring stock market returns, Mercer saysStock markets helped improve the financial health of many pension plans in Canada in 2025. Photo by Inside Creative House /Getty ImagesArticle contentSoaring stock markets helped boost the solvency of Canadian defined-benefit (DB) pension plans to a record high at the end of 2025, according to a new...

This energy startup’s bet on 100-year-old grid tech is paying off Demand for electrical transformers, fueled in part by AI data centers, has grown so high that one prominent investor is backing a new startup that uses a very old technology. Ayr Energy makes transformers with iron-cores, the same basic tech used in the grid for over a century. A number of other startups have popped up to...

Madlanga commission: Ex-officer charged with murder of South African whistleblower 'Witness D'Whistleblower murder suspect is former elite officer, South African police sayKhanyisile NgcoboJohannesburgGetty ImagesMarius van der Merwe was shot dead three weeks after accusing police officers of killing a robbery suspectA former member of an elite police unit has been charged with the murder of a...

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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man Is a Violent Delight From Netflix The long-running British period gangster series gets its own movie, starring Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan. Nick Hide Managing copy editor Nick manages CNET's advice copy desk from Springfield, Virginia. He's worked at CNET since 2005. Expertise Copy editing | Football | Civilization and other old-man games |...