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Australia is the first country to implement a nationwide ban of social media for teens, but other measures have been enacted or are being considered here in Canada.
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As Canada’s Online Harms Act is being debated, MPs may look to other countries, like Australia, for guidance on protecting youth from online harms.
Chrystia Freeland arrive sur la Colline du Parlement à Ottawa en octobre 2024. La vice-première ministre et ministre des Finances a annoncé cette semaine sa démission du cabinet du premier ministre Justin Trudeau.
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Le ton et le moment de l’annonce du départ de Christian Freeland paraissent avoir été conçus délibérément et avec soin pour provoquer le plus de chaos et de discorde possible au sein du gouvernement.
A poster depicting Luigi Mangione hangs outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel, in New York, Dec. 12, 2024. Mangione is accused of gunning down the CEO of UnitedHealthcare outside the hotel.
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The slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — and the support his accused killer has received on social media — is similar to previous U.S. manhunts, trials and criminal spectacles.
Chrystia Freeland arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in October 2024. The deputy prime minister and finance minister has announced her resignation from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet.
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Both the tone and timing of Chrystia Freeland’s resignation announcement are seemingly carefully designed to cause the most chaos and discord within the government.
Not everyone experiences painful menstruation, but it remains a cause for concern in the workplace.
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‘All We Imagine as Light’ disrupts popular notions of Mumbai and showcases the struggles and isolation migrants face in the city.
Flooded caravans at Billing Aquadrome Holiday Park as Storm Bert continues to cause disruption in Northampton, United Kingdom, on Nov. 25, 2024.
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The 1,000-ton rule states that a person is killed every time humanity burns 1,000 tons of fossil carbon. Minimizing the deaths caused by climate change should be a global priority.
A passenger jet flies over the Olympic rings on display outside the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in August 2021. India, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are among the countries considering bids to host the 2036 Summer Olympics.
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Hosting international sporting events brings prestige and profit to both global sports organizations and repressive regimes, but the gains sacrifice human rights and justice for power and profit.
Nature-based solutions, including wetlands and other biodiverse natural systems, can play an important role in ensuring climate resiliance. A view of the Yaqan Nukiy, also known as the Lower Kootenay Band First Nation, wetland restoration project is seen near Creston, B.C. in an undated photo.
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Nature-based solutions are a cost-effective means of addressing climate instability, and governments already have all the tools they need to help get these projects off the ground.
The moon sets behind the CN tower in Toronto in August 2023. While it’s beautiful from a distance, Canada’s lunar rover will explore one of the most hostile regions of the moon in 2026.
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Will it be Glacier or Athabasca? Maybe Courage or Pol-R? The Canadian moon rover will soon have a name, two years before it’s set to explore the moon’s South Pole.
Mourners hold a candlelit vigil in remembrance of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Natalie Warmerdam in Wilno, Ont. in September 2015. Basil Borutski was convicted of murder in the separate slayings in eastern Ontario.
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Failing to deem intimate partner violence an epidemic will permit the conditions that sustain it to persist — and likely worsen.
The health, safety and lives of women and children are at stake.
A man arrives to cast his ballot on abortion rights in Knock, Ireland, in May 2018.
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The U.S. presidential election campaign and the Irish referendum on abortion in 2018 raise questions about whether a political messaging strategy focused on ‘real men’ is effective.
An Air Canada plane at Pearson Airport in Toronto. By emphasizing both control and the benefits of immigration, leaders can preserve positive attitudes toward immigrants.
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The recently announced cuts to Canada’s immigration targets for the coming years are essential to maintain Canadians’ support for immigration and positive attitudes toward immigrants.
Although national guidelines for children’s sleep are clear, only two jurisdictions in Canada have regulations that specify the amount of sleep/rest per day in licensed child-care facilities.
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Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines for healthy development recommend naps for infants and children under two years, and nap options for ages three to four.
Actors Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve attend the press conference of ‘A Different Man’ at the Berlinale, in February 2024.
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The film illustrates in nuanced ways how the true challenge lies not in the body itself, but in the societal structures that dictate what is considered an acceptable life.
San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa speaks at a news conference after an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Santa Clara, Calif., on Oct. 27, 2024. Bosa publicly wore a MAGA hat after the game.
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NFL defensive lineman Nick Bosa proudly donned a MAGA hat after a recent game. Will the NFL respond to his violation of league rules the same way it did to Colin Kaepernick?
A view towards St. Paul’s Cathedral and the City of London during low tide along the River Thames in London in August 2023. New research suggests the Little Ice Age was not nearly as cold and icy as the name would imply.
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New research on the European Little Ice Age in England has upended established narratives and provided a window into an era of climatic instability not too different from our own.
Lyle (left) and Erik Menendez sit with their defense attorney Leslie Abramson (right) in Beverly Hills Municipal Court during a hearing, Nov. 26, 1990.
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Netflix’s productions on the Menendez brothers reveal the moral problem at the heart of true crime: whose definition of “true” should viewers rely on when assessing the veracity of a narrative?
When children are surrounded by supportive environments, they can learn positive coping mechanisms from adversity.
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Treating all adversity as inherently negative does a disservice to children and their ability to develop adaptive coping mechanisms that can protect them in future cases of adversity.
Seattle Kraken assistant coach Jessica Campbell looks up from the bench during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the St. Louis Blues on Oct. 8, 2024 in Seattle.
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Campbell’s story serves as a reminder of the challenges women coaches face, but it also demonstrates how achieving a coaching role in a professional league, though difficult, is not insurmountable.