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‘The fight has changed’: Predicting wildfires with artificial intelligence – National

As wildfires ignite across Canada with record speed, a growing number of scientists insist artificial intelligence (AI) should be part of the firefight. “We need to be changing the way we do business,” said Natural Resources Canada forest researcher Joshua Johnston. “The fight has changed. We’ve got to change with …

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This long-term care home radically changed the way it operates. Residents say it’s working

Like so many people contemplating long-term care, Louis Capozzi said he was nervous about what he would find when he started looking at homes. “I heard so many awful things about, you know, people getting not well taken care of, laying in bed, needing to be changed and people hitting them …

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The pandemic changed how we work. Now, mothers want it to stay that way

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Brianna Shereck was at odds between getting ahead in her career and caring for her two pre-school aged children.  “If you’ve ever had kids in daycare, you’re familiar that they get sick all of the time,” said Shereck. In 2019, she took five weeks away from …

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They came to Toronto as a young immigrant couple. A crash has now forever changed their lives

On the inside of Carlos Bastarrachea’s right forearm is a tattoo of an airplane circling a globe with the date Dec. 6, 2020, the date when he and his wife Emilia Ballester arrived to start their new life in Toronto. She has the same one, meant to look like a passport stamp. “We …

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Portraits show Kitchener teens how much they’ve changed — and stayed the same — over 10 years

An end of year portrait project is giving a group of grads from Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ont., a stronger sense of self as they set off into the next chapter of their lives.  The photos are side-by-side images: portraits taken in the last months of Grade 12 …

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‘It changed my life’: How an Ontario university tuition levy helps students affected by war become grads

Alik Sarian uprooted her life twice for her university education. On Tuesday, she will be one of hundreds of students receiving a bachelor of science degree at Wilfrid Laurier University during convocation ceremonies, and says she has her classmates to thank. Sarian is originally from Aleppo, Syria. In 2016, she moved with …

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