He wore 75 pounds of firefighting gear for a 5K. Here’s why. It served two purposes: raising awareness about the cancer risks firefighters face and recognizing the strain on families supporting a loved one with the disease. Both hit home for Slater, whose partner, Janette Kerry, has been living with cancer for nearly three years.

“There’s a lot of weight that’s carried through that process,” Slater said. “It just symbolizes the everyday struggle.”

For Slater and Kerry, that struggle has included emotional swings between good and bad news, planning for surgery, and the added stress and expense of travelling for appointments and services off the Island.

In November 2023, Kerry learned she had multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A, known as MEN2A, a rare inherited syndrome affecting the endocrine glands. She was also diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer, which is associated with the syndrome.

“That sounds like one of the worst things that can happen to someone, but I genuinely feel like to finally get answers after so many years felt really validating,” Kerry said.

Finally having a name for what she was experiencing brought relief, but getting the care she needs has been another challenge. Some of Kerry’s scans and surgeries require trips to Halifax.

“I do feel like only a fraction of care can actually happen on the Island, unfortunately,” Kerry said. “This is an endocrine disease, so I should have an endocrinologist, but there aren’t any.”

A light aircraft has crashed near a beach in the city of Boca Raton, Florida, in the southeastern United States, the local police department said.

"Boca Raton Police are assisting with a small-engine plane crash. The sole occupant of the plane was transported to an area hospital as a precaution," the city police said on X.

The Federal Aviation Administration is currently investigating the circumstances of the incident, and specialists are working to retrieve the aircraft from the water.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney said the retaliatory import taxes will be concentrated in steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics.

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US entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed with the opinion that things will start to fall apart for the United States when the state debt reaches the $50-trillion mark.

"Accurate graph," he wrote, commenting on a post of a user who posted a diagram designating the $50-trillion mark as the critical point.

Earlier this week, the US state debt exceeded record $40 trillion, increasing by $20 trillion in less than 10 years. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects the US GDP growth to be at 2.3% in 2026.

China is confronted by a tougher economic picture. There are many reasons to think officials will try to ride out the rough patch.

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Finnish President Alexander Stubb cannot defy the US on the issue of his policy toward Russia, acting as its vassal, Armando Mema, a member of the Freedom Alliance national conservative party, told .

"Stubb is nothing more than a 'US vassal'," he said. "The US ambassador to Finland is the de facto president of Finland, influencing the country's foreign policy. President Stubb cannot make any decisions on matters of foreign policy regarding Russia without prior consultation with the US ambassador to Finland," the politician emphasized.

He pointed out that the Finnish leader has repeatedly made political decisions aimed at pleasing American diplomats, and this situation is not likely to change anytime soon. "Finland is now a US satellite state," Mema noted.

The politician noted that following Finland’s accession to NATO, its policy has been geared toward supporting the alliance’s interests in the region, which is the main obstacle to restoring ties with Russia. "For a genuine dialogue to take place, it is necessary to understand this fundamental problem, which those who advocated for Finland’s accession to NATO do not understand," he stressed.