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Alexandra Raquel Hughes wears many hats: Mother, business owner, leadership mentor — and witch. It’s the latter, she says, that stirs up significant intrigue.  “People are very curious about what that means,” she said. “There’s this stigma and there’s this myth. And so for someone who looks like a normal …

Two millennia before anyone called it street art, the people of Pompeii were already at it: scratching jokes, insults of enemies, declarations of love and raunchy drawings into the city walls. Now, in a narrow corridor that once joined two theatres, an international research team has put advanced digital imaging …

The hazelnut tree has long been a part of the landscape in parts of British Columbia. A 19th-century settler gave the village of Hazelton in northern B.C.’s Skeena region its name because of the abundance of hazelnuts in the area.  A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science indicates …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size There might not be another playoff game quite like the one that kicked off the much-anticipated series between the Winnipeg Jets and Colorado Avalanche on Sunday night at Canada Life Centre. The Jets should be counting on that. Story continues below advertisement …

Ukraine’s long-standing pleas — and prayers — for advanced Western weapons are beginning to be answered as Canada announced Thursday it plans to send dozens of brand-new armoured personnel carriers to the embattled country. It is part of an overall push by NATO, which has said it will help the …

Nina Trentmann / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft’s Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company’s finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more  —  The new tools help automate tasks.  But ‘we love Excel,’ says Cory Hrncirik, who leads Microsoft’s Modern Finance …

Amid a controversy over Yoga guru Ramdev’s remarks on allopathy and doctors, the head of the government-run All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has said the facility has successfully treated at least 600 Covid patients by implementing both the systems of medicine. Prof Tanuja Nesari said a holistic approach and …

Enlarge / Quantum mechanics is complex, fold-your-brain stuff. But it can be explained. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images Exploring the quantum world View more stories Some technical revolutions enter with drama and a bang, others wriggle unnoticed into our everyday experience. And one of the quietest revolutions of our current …