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When a political leader repeatedly tells us what he wants, albeit through absurdity, there is a point at which treating it as a joke becomes its own form of denial.
The authors discovered ‘duck-billed’ ornithopod and carnivorous theropod dinosaur tracks, along with rare rounded tracks with four or five digits, which may belong to ankylosaurian (‘armoured’) dinosaurs.
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Une étude menée auprès de travailleurs canadiens le confirme : sommeil et alimentation protègent mieux la santé contre le stress chronique au travail que l’exercice.
Students who use cannabis may also experience irregular schedules, higher energy drink consumption or other behaviours that influence diet quality.
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Researchers surveyed more than 1,500 students at a large Canadian university to better understand the relationship between cannabis use and diet quality.
Psychologists describe a paradoxical condition through which people acquire pleasure from aversive experiences that simulate fear, anxiety and emotional discomfort, all while remaining fundamentally safe.
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Black academics can mourn a young colleague while also anticipating the burden his case may place on scholars who may find their own qualifications subjected to renewed suspicion.
The show engages with the uncomfortable truths about settler squatting on Osage land that Wilder grappled with.
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By providing a more expansive ‘Little House’ world, the show respects Wilder’s writing while redressing racist depictions.
Pour réduire les collisions d’oiseaux contre les bâtiments, il faut commencer par respecter les lignes directrices de conception dès la phase de planification.
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Au Canada, des dizaines de millions d’oiseaux sont tués chaque année lors de collision dans des fenêtres d’édifices.
Smoke billows into the sky following Ukrainian drone strikes on warehouses of Russia’s online retailer Wildberries, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 24, 2026, with St. Isaac’s Cathedral seen in foreground.
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Despite successful Ukrainian drone strikes, it’s unlikely either Vladimir Putin’s regime or the Russia-Ukraine war will end any time soon.
England’s Lucy Robinson, rear right, throws a basket under pressure from Canada’s Kathleen Dandenau, rear left, during a 3x3 women’s wheelchair basketball match between Canada and England at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 26, 2026.
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If the Commonwealth Games showcase sporting excellence, they also expose profound differences in who has the opportunity to reach the starting line.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand shake hands following talks at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., in November 2025.
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From a Cyberpunk stunt team to a Japanese superhero, Montréal’s Fantasia Film Festival reveals that media evolutions can start with scrappy ideas and budgets.
Volunteers collected and arranged thousands of birds killed by collisions with buildings in the Greater Toronto Area in 2024.
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As Canada continues to welcome newcomers, we should remember that behind every immigration policy are people whose knowledge, experiences and contributions deserve to be recognized.
A homeless person lies on Dundas Street in London, Ont., in 2019.
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There’s a widening divide between two Canadas: one marked by working-class misery and homelessness; the other by the unprecedented prosperity of the uber-wealthy. This wealth gap is unsustainable.
Real images of violent content used to remain in the internet’s dark corners. Now they circulate widely on mainstream social media.
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Eighty-five per cent of teens have seen gore online, but only seven per cent searched for it. Current content moderation and safety features aren’t fixing the problem.
George Morland’s The Labourer’s Rest depicts the daily rhythms of rural labour in 18th-century England.
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The language of burnout turns up in agricultural records from more than 200 years ago, long before the term entered popular use.
The screen shows a VAR decision during the World Cup Group I soccer match between France and Senegal in East Rutherford, N.J., near New York, on June 16, 2026.
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Two overturned World Cup goals, in Argentina-Egypt and Norway-England, show that replay can reveal a foul, but only a referee can decide how far back the review should go.
If a baseball team devoting one of its 81 home games to a Pride Night causes this much backlash, sports leagues clearly still have work to do to build acceptance of LGBTQ+ people in their spaces.
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Pride Nights have always drawn both celebration and backlash. The latest flashpoint featuring the San Francisco Giants shows how unsettled that balance has become.
When we’ve been socialized to feel ashamed about having a body that is larger than the “ideal,” being open about using Ozempic can put us in a vulnerable, no-win position.
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Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Professor, Department of Paediatrics; Professor, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University