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What can we learn from the oldest of the old?

January 18, 2019 00:20:18
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What can we learn from the oldest of the old?

January 18, 2019 00:20:18

More people are living longer than ever before. And with longer lives come more complications—loss, loneliness, illness and other things we associate with...

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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer makes his way to speak to media on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018

Canada’s Divide, Part II: What’s wrong with the Right?

January 17, 2019 0:19:42

Decades from now, historians may recall a time when there was such a thing as a “moderate conservative”. These folks believed in low taxes,...

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau (behind) gesture during their visit to the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines in Amritsar, India, 21 February 2018. Prime Minister Trudeau is in India for a seven-day state visit to strengthen the bilateral ties between the two nations.

Canada’s Divide, Part I: What’s wrong with the Left?

January 16, 2019 0:20:26

What if you’re a Liberal, and Justin Trudeau’s insinuations about construction workers makes you feel ridiculous? What if you’re Conservative but you can’t...

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A STORM TO REMEMBER - A Canadian Forces Bison drives up Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, ON January 15, 1999. The Canadian Armed Forces were called in by Mayor Mel Lastman to aid Torontonians caught in the worst snow storm to hit the megacity. The city struggled under a record 113 centemetres of snowfall in the first half of January, 1999 (the average for the entire month is usually 35.5 cm).

Twenty years of laughing at Toronto

January 15, 2019 0:19:02

This week marks the 20th anniversary of an iconic Canadian moment—that time when the mayor of Toronto called on the army to come...

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This Feb 3, 2013 image provided by NASA shows a self portrait of the Mars rover, Curiosity. NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars that may have teemed with microbes for tens of millions of years, far longer than scientists had imagined, new research suggests.

Canada’s reaching for the stars. Literally.

January 14, 2019

It’s called a repeating fast radio burst. And we don’t yet know what it means. It could be anything from aliens (really) to...

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