Daily Briefing — 2026-02-26
Good morning. Here is your concise daily briefing for 2026-02-26.
1) World news
- US and Iran begin talks seen as crucial to prevent conflict
- ‘Fear is everywhere’: BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud
- Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows
- Cuba says it shot dead four people on US-registered speedboat
- Shot in school uniform: BBC reveals police order led to Gen Z protest killings in Nepal
2) Canada news
- As Ontario makes cuts to student aid program, here’s what we know
- The culprit behind Loblaw’s $10K fine for promoting imported food as Canadian? Broccoli slaw
- Tears, hugs outside Crown Royal plant after Amherstburg, Ont., workers complete last shift
- Police arrest 2 teens, 30-year-old woman after spate of ‘hoax’ threats to Winnipeg schools
- Carney government says India threat is over — Sikh activists say not so fast
3) Atlantic Canada / Halifax news
- Government MP among those asking agriculture minister to reconsider Nappan farm closure
- Province says it will not extend freeze on Halifax development charges
- NSLC closing downtown Halifax store following surge in thefts
- Houston bristles at questions about staff costs
- Houston government’s rapid, packed session is an affront to democracy, say opposition
- Plan to close museums leaves heritage sector ‘devastated’
4) Weather for Halifax (next 7 days) + alerts
- 2026-02-26: Rain, high 4.8°C, low -3.9°C, precip 83%, wind 18.7 km/h
- 2026-02-27: Cloudy, high -1.4°C, low -8.9°C, precip 1%, wind 15.6 km/h
- 2026-02-28: Cloudy, high 2.6°C, low -9.3°C, precip 7%, wind 21.5 km/h
- 2026-03-01: Snow, high 1.5°C, low -7.3°C, precip 24%, wind 16.6 km/h
- 2026-03-02: Cloudy, high -7.1°C, low -12.4°C, precip 21%, wind 14.9 km/h
- 2026-03-03: Cloudy, high -3.7°C, low -11.8°C, precip 19%, wind 12.7 km/h
- 2026-03-04: Dense drizzle, high 5.2°C, low -6.7°C, precip 30%, wind 29.7 km/h
Alerts
No active Environment Canada alerts for Nova Scotia at publish time.
5) AI news summary
- Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
- Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
- Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
- Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
- Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Sports omitted today (no broadly significant global sports event prioritized).