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Child-care settings play an influential role in early childhood development. A two-year-old child plays outside a child-care centre in Montréal in April 2025.
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Best practice guidelines for healthy movement in child-care settings serve as a critical step to create more active and health-promoting child-care centres.
Construction workers gather at facility in Kingston, Ont., which will be used as a start-up laboratory to test new processes related to critical minerals and other emerging technologies.
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Canadian officials have pledged more than $43 billion in subsidies to create new low-carbon supply chains. A new study identifies some problems.
Elected school boards have been eliminated by some provinces, and Ontario’s Minister of Education recently said he is open to this. A municipal election sign in Toronto in 2018.
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A brief look at the history of elected school boards in Canada shows how the powers and responsibilities of elected school board trustees have been eroded considerably.
A woman attends a vigil to mourn recent victims of intimate partner violence in Halifax in March 2025.
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Without comprehensive legislative and societal reforms to address intimate partner violence, the measures in Bill C-21 risk being little more than a bandage on a gaping wound.
There is also a great deal of evidence that sociodemographic cues in a name — such as race and age — can affect whose resume gets a callback. The sound of a name itself could be another potential source of bias.
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Attributing human characteristics to artificial intelligence is more harmful than beneficial.
Anaida Poilievre and Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre celebrate his win during the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection in Camrose, Alta., on Aug. 18, 2025.
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Now that Pierre Poilievre has won a byelection to return to the House of Commons, will he maintain his libertarian-flavoured populism of the last few years? Or will he pivot to broaden his base?
Des passants défilent devant une affiche publicitaire mettant en vedette Sydney Sweeney, à l’extérieur d’un magasin American Eagle Outfitters à New York.
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En célébrant l’apparence conforme aux canons de beauté de Sydney Sweeney, American Eagle a remis à l’honneur, haut et fort, la silhouette féminine « traditionnelle ».
Joaquin Phoenix, left, who plays small-town sheriff Joe Cross, and Pedro Pascal, who plays the town’s mayor, Ted Garcia, in a scene from Ari Aster’s film ‘Eddington.’
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Current models for weather forecasting tend to ignore outlier data; learning how to incorporate these can help reduce risk and increase community resiliency.
People walk past a campaign poster featuring Sydney Sweeney at an American Eagle Outfitters store in New York.
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With its celebration of Sydney Sweeney’s conventionally attractive appearance, American Eagle has reintroduced the ‘traditional’ feminine figure loudly and proudly.
Avec le déclin des applications de rencontre, on assiste à un retour des activités de rencontre en personne, comme le speed dating, les clubs de course à pied et les raves en journée.
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Plusieurs jeunes en ont assez des applications de rencontre, mais n’ont pas eu les mêmes occasions que leurs aînés de développer leurs compétences sociales en personne.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order after speaking during an AI summit on July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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Amid heightened concern about the current state of democracy around the globe, we need to better understand the attitudes and motivations of politicians.
A composite image of five photographs show former members of Canada’s 2018 World Juniors hockey team, left to right, Alex Formenton, Cal Foote, Michael McLeod, Dillon Dube and Carter Hart as they individually arrived to court in London, Ont., in April 2025.
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Sexual and gender-based violence in sport validate misogyny and reinforce sexual entitlement and inadequate accountability. This was evident in the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial.
A satellite image of the Clearwater Lakes, the site of two large asteroid impacts that struck Earth about 290 million years ago.
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Cubic zirconia, a popular diamond substitute, only occurs naturally under extreme conditions. Finding cubic zirconia in craters reveals parts of the Earth’s history.
Warning signage for suspected cases of measles is seen outside the main entrance of Woodstock General Hospital in Woodstock, Ont., on May 22, 2025.
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Measles is a viral infection, so antibiotics don’t treat it directly. But it weakens the immune system, leading to bacterial infections like pneumonia or ear infections, which do require antibiotics.
With the decline of dating apps, we are seeing a return to in-person dating activities like speed dating, running clubs and daytime raves.
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Many Gen Z people are tired of dating apps, but haven’t had the same opportunities to build in-person social skills that some of us older folks take for granted.
Prime Minister Mark Carney ahead of the First Nations Summit at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on July 17, 2025.
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Rather than continuing to retaliate with tariffs of its own, the Canadian government has begun to confess that such a tactic may be a losing battle against Donald Trump.
More humane practices will keep schools safer for everyone, including teachers and all students. A hallway is seen in an elementary school in Longueuil, Que., in March 2024.
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Evidence-based de-escalation strategies, along with adequate staff support and trauma-informed training, can help schools reduce or eliminate the need to seclude students.
A society knows itself through data, and makes a declaration about what it values by what it chooses to count.
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