John Gay completed his debut marathon Sunday in Ottawa, something he and those close to him never dreamed possible as recently as a year ago. Gay tore his left hamstring in 2023 and left Achilles tendon the next year. Later in 2024, an MRI revealed a torn right hamstring he had run with for about six weeks. Gay returned to track running in 2025, only to be sidelined several more months after throwing out his back. “It seemed like it was going to be curtains on my career,” the 29-year-old said last week from his home in Kelowna, B.C. “I…

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Europe’s railways are about to get an upgrade on paper. The European Commission has launched its “One Journey, One Ticket, Full Rights” proposal. It targets one of rail travel’s most persistent headaches: fragmented cross-border booking. Under the current system, a journey from Brussels to Vienna means juggling tickets from multiple…

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Private credit has grown into a $2 trillion industry over the past decade, financing software companies, healthcare rollups, and industrial firms. Fueled by ultra-low interest rates, post-2008 banking regulations, and yield-hungry investors, it became one of the most powerful forces in global finance. Now the environment that created it has…

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