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My constellations from Mi'kmaq are not in textbooks — that's erasing our stories, says astrophysicist.
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr said her colleagues have 'blood on their hands.' They're demanding an apology.
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CBC/Radio-Canada has paused activities on its corporate and news Twitter accounts, after the social media platform put a "government-funded media" label on its account, in its latest move to stamp public broadcasters with designations.
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In the 1500s, tens of thousands of Indigenous people began arriving in Europe.
It’s a perspective not often heard of, but one historian Caroline Dodds Pennock has spent lots of time researching and spoke with IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed about.
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“In 2016, this thing is this massive headache. And then … it gets worse.” on the $140k donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau foundation that’s embroiled in controversy once again:
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Muslims around the world are approaching the final days of Ramadan.
In some parts of the world another tradition is also observed during this time — the very particular entertainment phenomenon that is Ramadan TV specials.
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From lawsuits to labour activism to speaking out against police brutality, the struggles of the '70s set the template for the league today, historian Theresa Runstedtler says.
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According to new data from the Royal Bank of Canada's spending tracker, Canadians are cutting back their spending on discretionary goods like clothes and restaurants, but spending on non-essential services remained strong.
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Miniaci builds, repairs and preserves all sorts of film projectors. He's in his 60s, and says he is one of the few people capable of maintaining and repairing projection equipment in the world.
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A new algorithm has successfully re-discovered fundamental equations in physics and chemistry.
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Maureen Beck was named a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2019 for her mountaineering exploits.
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Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said the tax regime is "an open question, an important one," and forms part of the federal government's ongoing review.
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Experts say adult asthma can be hard to diagnose correctly.
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The JUICE mission, which lifted off yesterday, will examine three moons that are believed to contain subsurface oceans.
Those oceans are completely covered by thick ice, but the mission will still provide some important context in our search for life.
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Jack Douglas Teixeira was arrested on Friday for allegedly leaking highly classified military intelligence records online. According to a former intelligence official, too many people have access to highly sensitive documents like these.
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"He believed in the power of sound to move listeners, to alter our perception of the world, if only for a few moments," writes Paolo Pietropaolo, host of In Concert on CBC Music, of storyteller and long time friend Chris Brookes.
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"The idea here is to pair the scientists up with comedians and let the comedians tell it like it is, in a way that's much more emotional and visceral, and see if that motivates people to act," says the founder and creative director of the Utopia Bureau.
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Jenny Fenwich bought an original Mary Quant dress when she was about 17. It already fell scandalously above the knee when she bought it, but Fenwich cut it even shorter.
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“I do remember directors coming up to me and going, 'No one types that fast. Slow it down' … because I didn't know what I was doing," says Kiefer Sutherland, who — despite starring in high-tech spy thrillers — doesn’t have email or a computer.
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From texting situationships, to inherited mansions, to intergalactic warfare, this spring YA reading list has something for every reader.
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“There's no reason a 21-year-old in Massachusetts in a National Guard base needs to know about what's going on between the U.S. and its allies and Ukrainian military preparations.” Today, on how military documents got leaked: cbc.ca/1.6810157
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In his 1941 State of the Union Address, FDR described four essential freedoms: freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear.
In this year's BBC Reith Lectures, four speakers each dig into the current state of one of those freedoms.
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Pang Pha is very particular about her bananas.
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Traditionally, once donated lungs are removed, they’re kept on ice and have about 6 to 8 hours to be placed in the chest of a waiting patient.
A new method pioneered by Canadian scientists is expanding the transplant window to 36 hours.
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Farmers in parts of Africa have long known that elephants won't go anywhere near trees with beehives in them.
But scientists with Save the Elephants' human-elephant co-existence program are now using bees to steer herds away from conflict with humans.
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From "A is for Ahead by a Century" to "Z is for Frozen in My Tracks," forthcoming picture book 'The Tragically Hip ABC' is a love letter to the legendary Canadian band.
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Archaeologists have long had a hunch that people in Bronze Age Europe consumed psychoactive drugs.
A few strands of hair perfectly preserved in a 3,000-year-old burial site in Spain proved them right.
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“Almost from day one, a sort of constant thing hanging over him is this idea that he can't quite live up to what he has promised.” on Justin Trudeau’s ten years as leader of the Liberals: cbc.ca/1.6808633
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Susan Neiman may seem an unlikely critic of "woke-ism." But she argues the tenets of the woke have become antithetical to the traditional values of the left.
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In an era of texting, voice memos and emails, the Toronto Letter Writers Society’s monthly meetups are more than social gatherings where people handwrite cards and letters to loved ones.
They’re helping people practice and reconnect with their handwriting
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"I'm still trying to wrap my head around it," says UVic visual arts prof Kelly Richardson.
Never in her wildest dreams did Richardson think her work would one day become the backdrop to the epic musical stylings of Metallica.
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“This is not going to stop, this is going to just keep going on and on and on.” contemplates the incoming wave of movies about toys and other stuff you’ve bought.
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It wasn't possible to buy a Rum & Butter chocolate bar just a few years ago. But after this Alberta entrepreneur resurrected the old-fashioned candy in 2021, pandemic production delays have left her with roughly 133,000 of them.
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IDEAS follows a seabird biologist on a rescue mission of young storm petrels along Newfoundland’s coastline.
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"[Success] is what I wanted, it's just not what I thought it would be," Caesar said.
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A group of women who found one another after they say they endured an abusive relationship with the same man have banded together to warn others about his behaviour. The case highlights how the system has failed to protect women, an expert notes.
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Educators must teach students 'when and where and how to use' new technologies, says math teacher.
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When the Good Friday Agreement was signed 25 years ago, on April 10, 1998, in Belfast, Monica McWilliams was one of just a handful of women at the table. But she says they were — by and large — not welcome.
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Who planted the explosives that damaged the Nord Stream pipelines could be a question some countries don’t want to hear the answer to. Listen:
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