Brent crude oil, the international standard, hovered around $100 US a barrel on Monday — up from roughly $70 per barrel before the war in late February. North American markets were mostly flat as of midday, after dipping earlier in the morning.

With the future of free trade between Canada and the United States unclear at best, a look to the past could provide hints at where critical exports of energy fit into a deal in the future.

The recent cancelling of a horror novelist’s book demonstrates the conundrum that literary professionals face as they comb through every pitch, query letter and manuscript lobbed their way: how do you separate the proverbial wheat from the AI-generated chaff, and what happens if you get it wrong?