The soaring rents that have hit some of Canada’s biggest cities have also walloped college and university towns, creating a challenge for students looking for housing for the fall. Anxious students call for urgent action to ease rental crunch For the next year, this is what Alexandra Mussar will call …
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Genome map that includes more ethnicities could lead to better diagnosis, treatment
Scientists last year finished the momentous task of completely mapping the human genome. But that map was based on just a few individuals and didn't capture the diversity of the human population. Now, scientists have released a more diverse reference genome. New 'pangenome' based on DNA of people from Africa, …
Read More »A more diverse human genome map could improve disease diagnosis
Scientists last year finished the momentous task of completely mapping the human genome. But that map was based on just a few individuals and didn't capture the diversity of the human population. Now, scientists have released a more diverse reference genome. New 'pangenome' based on DNA of people from Africa, …
Read More »Julia Morley announces 71st Miss World venue
MANILA, Philippines — Just like its 2020 season, the Miss World Organization (MWO) totally scrapped its 2022 pageant. What was supposed to be held in United Arab Emirates last May did not materialize as announced, nor was there a specific reason given for cancelling the show. But MWO chief executive …
Read More »Is it true that you will never become rich as an employee?
“You will never become rich working for others!” “Jobs are for losers!” “Be your own boss!” These are the buzz words that are fed to us making it look like a 9-5 job is the most boring and dreadful thing to do. If you search online to find out who …
Read More »Cargo loaders at B.C.’s ports vote overwhelmingly in favour of strike
More than 7,000 terminal cargo loaders at British Columbia's ports have voted overwhelmingly in support of strike action against local maritime employers, although both sides are still negotiating to avoid such an outcome. Vote yielded 99.24 per cent support for strike action, union says More than 7,000 terminal cargo loaders …
Read More »Public safety minister proposes temporary funding for 3 First Nations police services operating on ‘fumes’
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says three Indigenous police services in northern Ontario will get 90 days of funding while they renegotiate new agreements with the federal government. Lawyer for the police services in northern Ontario says filing injunction for emergency funding will proceed Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has …
Read More »DNA matched four Degamo slay suspects
DNA testing has confirmed that four of the suspects in the killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo and nine others last March 4 were at the crime scene, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla confirmed Tuesday. The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) testing conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confirmed …
Read More »What’s going on with Reddit today?
Reddit, the website known as the "front page of the internet," is making front-page news today, as many communities there have gone private to protest recent changes that would charge third-party apps to access the site's content — a move developers say would put their applications out of business. Thousands …
Read More »Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown steps down, halting probe into misconduct claim
Russell Brown announced Monday he's stepping down as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada effective immediately — a move that comes after the Canadian Judicial Council began probing a claim of misconduct directed against Brown related to an incident in the U.S. Canadian Judicial Council began looking into …
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