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How do you get rid of 110 vats of smelly fish sauce? This Newfoundland town is finally getting an answer

LISTEN | Mary-Catherine McIntosh’s documentary Fish Sauce: The Current23:11How decades of rotting fish sauce changed a small town It’ll take about 200 trips with a standard-sized dump truck to put an end to a stinky problem that has plagued the town of St. Mary’s, N.L., for the past 25 years. …

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The International Space Station is old and leaky. Should it be decommissioned sooner rather than later?

Imagine you live in a house with walls that are just 2.54 mm thick. On the other side of your walls is certain death. Now imagine that there’s a crack in the outer wall of your living room, with oxygen being sucked out. And you can’t fix it. Sounds pretty …

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Women with traumatic brain injury 26 per cent less likely to receive trauma care than men, Ontario study finds

New Ontario research shows women with traumatic brain injuries are far less likely than men to be admitted for trauma care, raising questions about why patients with similar, life-altering injuries may be receiving less-specialized treatment. Published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the study analyzed a decade of data …

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