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More than 1,500 friends of Toronto’s Dr Jack Bird are lending their superhero names to help ensure all preschoolers are vaccinated against a rare cancer. Bird, an immunologist at the University of Toronto, has…
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Some visitors arrive in this village dressed in coloured clothing and carrying a cane. (I know this because they’re not real, of course.) Some of the people who live in this village dress in…
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By Edward Lee, CNN • Updated 24th March 2018 Toronto, Canada — There’s no better time of year to be there than April, when city blocks fill with people huffing out rivers of bubbles…
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Citizen Media Citizen Media What was once thought to be a once-in-a-lifetime natural disaster for a B.C. area community now appears to be coming to an end. The B.C. Union of Provincial Employees (BCUPE)…
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Riot police protect a building from fire during the protests Dutch police have fired warning shots to clear anti-lockdown protesters from a residential street in the capital, Rotterdam….
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Below is the complete list of winners at the American Music Awards (AMA) which were held last night (Sunday, September 16, 2018). See photos of the red carpet here. NEW ARTIST Ariana Grande (PHOTOS):…
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(Photo By Lorenzo Bovo/Flickr) In a disturbing trend, more African-American children under age 20 were killed by suicide last year than by gunfire, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The increase…
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Every couple of miles in every direction, you can still see piles of leftover debris. Consider the bulldozers used to tear down the old railroad buildings in the neighborhood north of Chinatown, then look…
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Amid growing concerns about the rising incidence of measles in the U.S., this public health issue is of special concern in the U.S.’s healthcare system: U.S. medical caregivers have to cope with the complex…
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A new bill expected to strengthen hate speech and harassment on social media may face potential problems because of wording that treats speech as protected under the First Amendment, whether or not it is…
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