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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are providing a fresh …
Read More »Obama clarifies comments on aliens being real, says he saw ‘no evidence’ they’ve made contact
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Former U.S. president Barack Obama took to Instagram on Sunday to clarify comments he’d made on …
Read More »Rwanda-backed M23 rebels say they’ve seized strategic city of Uvira in east Congo
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 said that it’s taken control of the strategic city of Uvira in eastern Congo on Wednesday afternoon, following a rapid offensive since the …
Read More »Yemen’s Houthi rebels signal that they’ve stopped attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Yemen’s Houthi rebels are signalling they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip. In …
Read More »Astronomers think they’ve captured a planet forming around a host star — something never seen before
Astronomers believe they have caught a planet in the act of forming, something that has never before been witnessed. Planets form out of the leftover gas and dust once a star has ignited, and it’s believed that the forming planet or planets create a disk around the host star. While astronomers have seen this …
Read More »Chinese students in Canada say they’ve been targeted by Beijing’s campaign of fear
Some Chinese students in Canada accuse Beijing of targeting them and their families back in China with online threats and harassment — part of a campaign to crack down on anti-government dissent abroad. Ruohui Yang is one of those students. He said he came to Canada in 2015 when he was 15 years …
Read More »Ontario promised to overhaul abortion care – but clinics say they’ve been left out
2:59 Ontario excludes clinics in plan to change abortion care funding, workers say This is the second part of a series on abortion care in Ontario. Read the first story here. Ontario’s abortion care system has been in a state of disrepair for years, and last December, Queen’s Park decided …
Read More »Remember the Rogers outage? They’ve added 221,000 new phone customers since then
Despite a crippling days-long outage to its network that had many Canadians swearing they’d never trust the company again, Rogers actually managed to add 221,000 new cellphone customers since then. The telecommunications giant reported financial results on Wednesday for the three-month period up until the end of September. They showed …
Read More »They’ve lived through 2 ‘horrible’ years of renos. Now their landlord wants to raise the rent by 5.5%
Tenants at a building in north Etobicoke have joined forces to fight what they say is an unfair rent increase after almost two years of renovations that have disrupted their lives. The owners of the apartment building at 240 Markland Dr., near Bloor Street West and Highway 427, say they want to hike …
Read More »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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