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Summer McIntosh smashes women’s 400m freestyle world record at Canadian swim trials

Canadian Summer McIntosh smashed the women’s 400-metre freestyle world record Saturday night, touching the wall in three minutes 54.18 seconds at the national swimming trials in Victoria. McIntosh eclipsed the mark set by Australia’s Ariarne Titmus (3:55.38) in 2023 at the world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. She beat the other swimmers by more than 13 …

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Chicago newspaper prints a summer reading list. The problem? The books don’t exist

Good luck picking up the books on an unofficial summer reading list from the Chicago Sun-Times. Hoping to delve into the “multigenerational saga” Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende, for instance? Keep dreaming. Maybe a science-driven story like Andy Weir’s The Last Algorithm is more to your taste? The algorithm can’t help you. OK then, how about …

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He’s still waiting for FOI records Toronto police said he could have last summer, requested in 2020

Jamie Jelinski feels a bit like David — and the Toronto police are his Goliath.  The trouble is, he’s worried that this time Goliath might win. Jelinski filed a freedom of information (FOI) request to Toronto police in June 2020 for records concerning the facial recognition technology Clearview AI after …

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Canada election: Poilievre pitches ‘100 days of change’ by scrapping MPs’ summer break to pass priority bills

Singh defends election timing NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, speaking from Toronto in the final week of the election campaign, says there were two main reasons he didn’t push for an earlier election, which included him wanting Canadians to benefit from dental care and pharmacare and that he did not want …

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5 things to know before camping in Jasper National Park this summer

Reservations for summer camping in Jasper National Park open next week. Frontcountry campground bookings open at 8 a.m. MT on Tuesday, while backcountry bookings open at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. Sites will be available for dates from early May to late September, which is a longer timeline than usual. But camping …

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From Beyoncé to brat summer, celeb endorsements and viral moments didn’t matter much in this U.S. election

Following the U.S. election, Slate writer Scaachi Koul says some of the buzzier pop culture moments of the U.S. election campaign — like singer Charli XCX’s post describing Kamala Harris as “brat” — didn’t seem to impact the results.  “Overwhelmingly, the cultural moments we thought mattered didn’t,” she said while speaking with CBC’s Commotion.  “I …

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Canadian MPs to return after seismic shifts over summer break – National

On Monday Parliamentarians will return to the familiar stone walls of West Block in Ottawa to find the political landscape has shifted significantly. When they last gathered in the capital the Liberals knew their prospects were poor after languishing in the polls for more than a year, but they were …

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Ontario may see earlier leaf colour change after wettest summer on record

Some parts of southern Ontario have already seen the fall leaves change colour due in part to the record amount of rainfall the region experienced this summer — and it’s expected that more leaves may change colour sooner. Global News meteorologist Ross Hull says that after the wettest summer on …

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Summer zebra mussel inspections find hundreds of improperly cleaned watercraft – Winnipeg

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservation officers and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada continue their efforts to prevent the spread of zebra mussels. In a release Friday, the federal department said it completed a blitz of roadside boat checks this summer, stopping hundreds of vehicles …

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