An investigation has been launched after a blaze ripped through several stores in Capalaba, south of Brisbane, causing extensive damage.

Emergency services responded to the blaze about 4am this morning on Old Cleveland Road with the affected areas declared a crime scene.

An investigation will be launched into the cause of the fire, which caused extensive damage.

It was initially suspected the fire started in the Chemist Warehouse at the complex, which stretched around 50 metres long.

Throngs of angry protesters, denouncing coronavirus vaccines and lockdown measures, are becoming a fixture at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election campaign stops.

In Ontario on Monday, gravel was thrown at Trudeau from a crowd of demonstrators, many of whom held signs for the far-right People’s Party of Canada

Barbara Perry, a professor at Ontario Tech University and director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, says anger at Trudeau “Has been building for years among right-wing groups in Canada.”

The Australian Olympic Committee, known as AOC has confirmed it does not give money to retiring athletes, even if they finished on the podium at the Games.

Tokyo Olympic medallists will only receive a payment from the AOC if they continue training.

The $20,000 for gold medallists, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze is an incentive for athletes to continue representing Australia at an elite level.

Compensation payouts to more than 6,500 Queensland flood victims will now be divided from the $440 million available from the Queensland government and Sunwater.

In November 2019 the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled that Seqwater bore 50 per cent of the liability for flood compensation claims, while the Queensland government and Sunwater shared the remaining 50 per cent.

However, on Wednesday Seqwater won its appeal against that decision, ruling out its 50 per cent share of the liability for its management of Wivenhoe and Somerset dams in January 2011.

Hollywood giant Disney have remained silent on their JobKeeper payments as calls for transparency grow.

The multimedia giant with a market value of 453 billion Australian dollars has refused to clarify how much it claimed through the JobKeeper wage subsidy program last year.

This comes amid revelations workers at the company and its ESPN subsidiary received thousands through the scheme while revenues continued and grew.

A Gold Coast man who threatened the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and the Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young last year found guilty, but escaped jail time.

Aaron David Marriage, 43, had been found guilty of two counts of using a carriage service to send a threat to cause serious harm.

Marriage sent a slew of Facebook messages to the Queensland Premier's Facebook page over a number of months, threatening to "wipe them from the face of the earth" over COVID-19 restrictions.

The Matrix has returned with a trailer for its fourth installment set to be released later this evening.

Titled The Matrix Resurrections, the film sees Keanu Reeves return as Neo with what is rumored to be a young Morpheus. 

While Lana Wachowski returns to direct, original trilogy co-director Lilly Wachowski had explained that she felt the idea of going back to the franchise was "emotionally unfulfilling."

A US Navy destroyer sparks war of words after sailing near China-claimed reef

Days after China imposed new maritime identification rules that include the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, sailed within 19.3 kilometres of Mischief Reef, a portion of the Spratly Islands upon which the Chinese have built military facilities.

The territory remains a highly disputed body of water.

Brisbane CBD businesses face an existential threat after COVID-19, with people preferring to work from home. 

With the option for more autonomy and flexibility in the workplace, experts have said how much freedom employers give and employees take will be a lasting "future struggle". 

In a monthly survey of office landlords, the Property Council of Australia had revealed today that only 60 per cent of Brisbane workers are back in the city - a drop in numbers that has not been seen since this time last year.

Homeless people on the Gold Coast are having their belongings, including clothes, blankets and identification, confiscated by council workers.

Richard, one of hundreds of people living on the streets in the Coolangatta area, keeps what he has in a trolley and moves around regularly, trying to stay unnoticed and not bother anyone. Richard says he and his friends have had to resort to taking shifts to look after their possessions to avoid being targeted.