Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, in April 2026.
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As Canada advances its national AI strategy, we must ask what digital migration data reveal, and what they leave unseen.
A woman carries her cat out of a damaged multi-storey apartment building following a Russian missile attack on Kyiv on July 6, 2026.
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Russia’s use of the Oreshnik nuclear missile extends beyond a single weapons system — its underlying logic is to terrorize civilians, not to deter Ukrainian retaliation.
Older adults are frequently discussed as a vulnerable group during extreme heat, but vulnerability is not simply a function of age.
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The FIFA decision to suspend Folarin Balogun’s red card is a compact case study in how power can shape the application of rules without ever rewriting them.
Research ethics boards’ regulations can sometimes produce an unintended consequence: overprotection through policies that restrict the participation of people and communities historically excluded from research, such as racialized communities, Indigenous people and recent immigrants.
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An ethics process must not become so preoccupied with the potential harm of participation that it overlooks the certain harm of exclusion.
From left, director Andrew Stanton, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack with people costumed as Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jessie at a film launch, May 28, 2026, in London.
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The film is a chance to examine what research tells us about the roles of play and digital technology in children’s lives, and how parents can support a healthy balance.
A young new Canadian holds a flag as she takes part in a citizenship ceremony on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in 2019.
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Chris Miller, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania, and Lori G. Beaman, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
As religious affiliation declines, the rituals and guidance it once provided around dying have disappeared for many people. Death doulas fill that gap.
In one study of young adults in committed relationships, nearly two-thirds of regular users wished their partner behaved more like their AI companion.
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Some people rely on AI romantic companions for emotional support or private sexual exploration. Some partners experience this as betrayal.
As more employers turn to software to track hybrid and remote staff, evidence suggests the visibility it provides comes at the cost of trust.
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In mountainous environments, logging can hasten snowmelt, leading to larger floods.
Québécois singer Jérémy Gabriel in 2019. He was the target of cruel jokes by comedian Mike Ward made between 2010 and 2013, when Gabriel was a child.
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There’s no neutral, universal standard for judging whether a joke crosses the line from comedy into discrimination.
Parents, schools and policymakers all have roles giving teachers the support and resources they need to make students’ growth, and not perfection, the goal.
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Teachers in a study reported strong emotional reactions to small setbacks from their perfectionistic students, ranging from crying or lashing out to shutting down completely.
With climate change, many forests are risk finding themselves in conditions to which their trees are less well adapted. In light of this, a new idea is gaining ground: assisted migration.
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Relocating trees to protect forests struggling with climate change seems promising, but the extreme complexity of ecosystems poses challenges.
People stand near floodwaters along St. James Street in Montréal in April 1886. Flooding inundated large parts of the city’s West Island and affected some 20,000 families.
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With weather records dating back hundreds of years, it’s possible to track everything from sudden downpours that led to flash floods to the slow changes that occur over centuries.
Technology may help employers manage applications, but hiring decisions are ultimately still made by people.
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Career influencers and resume services profit from exaggerated claims about how applicant-tracking systems work. Most of the popular advice is not backed by evidence.
A new iteration of ‘Hockey Night in Canada’ that delivers stories and action from the game beyond the NHL would stand in contrast to the gambling-filled NHL broadcasts that have so irritated many viewers. Fans cheer before a Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers game in Edmonton in 2022.
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Canadians fund our public media at a far lower level than many countries, but this could change if CBC articulated a strong vision for the digital and AI age.
A multi-well pad for a natural gas plant is pictured outside of Fort St. John, B.C., in October 2018.
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Setback regulations remain the only lever that affords some protection to those bearing the greatest health risks of shale gas development in their neighbourhoods.
Québec actor, writer and producer Florence Longpré created “Empathie,” and also stars in the series.
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Beyond mere identity, ‘Empathie’ embodies a queer sensibility through its refusal to judge and its radical insistence that love takes multiple forms.
Physics-based simulations can help identify which peptide antibiotics can kill a bacteria like E. coli, pictured here using electron microscopy.
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Canada co-hosting the World Cup and its national team’s success is an opportunity to explore how people living in multicultural regions decide who to support.
The linguistic debates about the creation of humans, which shaped whether the word ‘mankind’ was understood to include women, emerged from the two very different creation accounts in the Book of Genesis.
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Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.
Law enforcement and forensic teams work the scene of a shooting a day earlier in Montréal on June 23, 2026.
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The Montréal shooter was a lonely, furious young man who built an ideology to justify killing, and its bedrock was a hatred of women.
The International Renewable Energy Agency projects that global ammonia demand could approach 700 million tonnes a year by 2050, nearly four times more than what is produced today.
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Scientific and engineering breakthroughs are allowing us to make ammonia from pollution rather than fossil fuels.
There are more than one million pieces of lethal debris that are too small to be tracked and that satellites risk colliding with in low-Earth orbit.
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