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Business Brief: Putting in the foot work
Good morning. The downtown cores of major Canadian cities might feel more vibrant these days, but data show they are only just half as busy as they were before the pandemic.…
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Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs on U.S.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on a pledge to boost import taxes by 50 per cent over the South Ame…
Japan’s panda capital Shirahama is losing its pandas
Adventure World has been home to pandas for nearly 31 years. (Yumi Asada/CNN via CNN Newsource)
They came, dressed in black and white, wearing furry hats, and clutching banners and soft toys.…
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Crowds weep as Japan’s panda capital loses its China-loaned pandas. What comes next?
Shirahama, Japan CNN —
They came, dressed in black and white, wearing furry hats, and clutching banners and soft toys. With tears in their eyes and sobs in their throats, they waited patiently in line under the scorching sun for one last glimpse before…
Republicans push to cut ties with Chinese scholarship program
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government.
In letters to Dartmouth College, the University…
Where Are You Most Likely To Spot UFOs? We Took A Peek Inside The US’s Biggest “Alien” Sighting Database
On the internet, there is a particularly fascinating resource – NUFORC (the National UFO Reporting Center). Over the past five decades, it has aimed to receive, record, corroborate, and document reports from individuals who have claimed to have seen (o…
Scientists discover creature ‘beyond imagination’ encased in 99 million-year-old amber
We know dinosaurs were around 99 million years ago, but now new research has identified a kind of parasitic wasp that was flying around back then (and which has a strange way of catching its prey).…
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US arrests Silk Typhoon hacker accused of stealing Covid research and mass email hacking
33-year-old man was accused of spying for the Chinese government
FBI alleges he is part of the Silk Typhoon hacking collective
If convicted, he might be looking at decades in jail
Italian law enforcement has arrested a 33-year-old Chinese national for …
Getting married? Consider an ‘invisible labour’ pre-nup
Open this photo in gallery: Talking about how you will divide household and parenting tasks before marriage can avoid conflicts later on.GETTY IMAGES
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Question: My partner and I both have very demanding careers.…
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Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help people in Gaza
Open this photo in gallery: Nearly half of Canadians believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a recent poll shows.-/AFP/Getty Images
Deborah Cowen is professor of political geography at the University of Toronto.…
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