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The sister of a Cape Breton man with Down syndrome says her brother’s small option home has abandoned him at a hospital. For 20 years, Brent Beaton has lived at Koster Huis, a home in Mabou, N.S., operated by the County of Inverness Municipal Housing Corporation, a non-profit licensed and …
Read More »Members of Canadian Sudanese community feel abandoned after violence escalates in Sudan
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Despite Sudan’s paramilitary agreeing to a proposal from the United States and Arab powers for a humanitarian ceasefire on Thursday, members of Toronto’s Sudanese community say they …
Read More »How an abandoned couch brought joy and mystery to an English village
As It Happens5:59How an abandoned couch brought joy and mystery to an English village It was a flash of inspiration that set the community photo project in motion. On a quiet Sunday morning in early April, in the rural village of Lydbrook, England, photographer Alex Elton-Wall leapt out of bed …
Read More »Politicians talk about Arctic sovereignty. But as a northern voter, I feel abandoned by Ottawa
This First Person article is the experience of Damien Haogak, who lives in Yellowknife. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. After four years of university in Edmonton, I moved back to Yellowknife in 2023 with my partner. The pandemic meant I didn’t have many …
Read More »Sheriff says 3 kids found ‘basically abandoned’ for years at suburban Detroit home
Donations of clothes and money are pouring in for three children who were “basically abandoned” by their mother for years, living alone in a suburban Detroit home among trash and feces, a sheriff said Tuesday. “You wouldn’t do this to an animal let alone your child,” Oakland County Sheriff Mike …
Read More »2 witnesses sought after boy, 13, charged in murder outside abandoned Ontario school
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Provincial Police are hoping that two people believed to have been in the woods near an abandoned school at the centre of a murder investigation come forward. The appeal comes about a week after a youth was pronounced dead in hospital …
Read More »Boy, 13, charged with 1st-degree murder outside abandoned Ontario school
A 13-year-old boy is facing a charge of first-degree murder after police say a youth died in hospital after being found outside an abandoned school southeast of Goderich, Ont., last week. Police have only described the accused and victim as “youths” but Global News has confirmed the accused is a …
Read More »Liminal spaces offline: Searching for abandoned, empty places in the real world
As 2023 comes to an end and a new year begins, it marks a period of transition, where days can feel suspended outside of the usual rhythm of routine. Defined as the space between “what was” and “what’s next,” the term “liminal” can be used to describe everything from time …
Read More »Parks Canada seeing ‘three-fold increase’ in abandoned pets at Toronto area park
Parks Canada has issued a plea for people to stop abandoning their pets and exotic animals after a three-fold increase at Rouge National Urban Park in recent years. In a statement to Global News, the government agency says in addition to domestic dogs, park staff are seeing rabbits, cats, reptiles …
Read More »Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML's data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people's consent (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML’s data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people’s consent — The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of …
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