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Lower child-care fees have helped increase employment among parents of young children in Canada while adding to the GDP, but there are access problems that policy could address. (Andrej Lisakov/Unsplash)

Have child, need job: How child‑care problems prevent many families from re‑entering the workforce

A new report shows Canada’s $10-a-day child care has generated real returns, but unlocking more benefits depends partly on bolstering the child-care workforce.
Brazil’s Neymar Jr. reacts after Brazil lost to Norway in a World Cup round-of-16 soccer match in East Rutherford, N.J., near New York, on July 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Soccer and faith: Did evangelicalism really cost Brazil the World Cup?

While such commentary can be described as semi-serious soccer banter, it speaks to the broader religious shifts taking place in Latin America.
Paramedics wheel a patient into the emergency department at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto in 2021. The public safety sector includes correctional workers, communicators and dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics and police. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Mental health programs alone won’t fix psychological injury among public safety workers

Public safety workers face rising rates of psychological injury and suicide. Research suggests employers are focusing on the wrong solutions.
Real images of violent content used to remain in the internet’s dark corners. Now they circulate widely on mainstream social media. (Unsplash)

Most Canadian teens have seen graphic violence online, and algorithms — not searches — are to blame

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.
Demonstrators protest against cuts to American foreign aid spending, including USAID and an American program to combat HIV/AIDS globally, on Capitol Hill in February 2025 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Why the latest blow to the HIV/AIDS response at the UN should have everyone sounding the alarm

If political agendas hijack the global HIV/AIDs response, it will devastate the 40 million people living with the disease worldwide, especially the most marginalized.
Support is lacking and un-co-ordinated across child-care licensing regulations, curriculum frameworks, standards of practice and workforce preparation. (Children Nature Network/Nappy)

Canadians love outdoor play and land‑based learning — but regulations get in the way

Reform needs to address liscencing regulation, curriculum frameworks, standards of practice for early childhood educators and post-secondary preparation.
Cereals use an array of techniques to capture kids’ (and parental) attention, for example, cartoon mascots, licensed media characters or fun shapes, colours and/or flavours. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Buchan 

Children’s cereals promise breakfast fun and nutrition, but are still high in sugar

Using government developed criteria for marketing to kids, none of the child-targeted cereals examined would be permitted to be advertised to children, and 96 per cent surpassed sugar thresholds.
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. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

World Cup VAR controversies show why human referees should decide where potential fouls begin

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.
Ernest Hemingway and Robert McAlmon, another American writer, in Spain in 1923. During his four years with the Toronto Star, Hemingway produced nearly 200 pieces, 170 under his own name plus around 30 with verified pseudonym bylines. (Ernest Hemingway Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum/Wikimedia)

How a forgotten Toronto story shows Hemingway beginning to invent himself as a fiction writer

Toronto was both where Hemingway deepened his journalism and where he began honing the literary techniques that would shape his fiction.
A robot leads older women to perform a cultural dance at an AI Exhibition in Beijing in April 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Wherever AI is heading next, older people want a say

The AI industry is dominated by young, male tech workers. It runs the risk of developing apps and tools that reproduce these gender and age-biases.
To employ these bacteria in cancer therapies, doctors could inject a patient with dormant spores of an anaerobe. Those spores would travel through the bloodstream and remain inert in healthy oxygenated tissue. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

How we are engineering bacteria to eat cancer

Researchers are working to engineer bacteria that can kill cancerous tumours while reducing harm to healthy cells and tissue.