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Mommy bloggers. Family vloggers. Kid-fluencers. Sharenting. There are any number of cute terms to describe the modern parenting phenomenon of sharing your children’s lives online — and in the case of monetized influencers, making a hefty profit off them. But there’s been a recent backlash to the sharenting trend, sometimes ledContinue Reading

Canada Canadian scholars who receive some of their funding from the U.S. government sources are flagging a troubling new questionnaire they have been receiving. It asks political and ideological questions about their research. Academics asked to confirm that their work doesn’t deal with ‘gender ideology,’ ‘environmental justice’ Canadian researchers haveContinue Reading

Ibogaine: The last trip? This psychedelic could change the opioid crisis. But its health risks hinder testing Your browser does not support the video tag. Rocky Dhillon wasn’t afraid when he swallowed the capsule in a Mexican clinic last November. He was hoping it would be the last “trip” heContinue Reading

Canada’s notoriously wild housing market spent much of the last 10 years becoming more unhinged. Affordability was at a crisis level before 2015 and has only gotten worse since. There are plenty of reasons, but the main ones were extremely low interest rates and unusually high population growth. After theContinue Reading

Learning deficits persist 5 years after COVID-19 school lockdowns Five years after COVID-19 lockdowns led schools to swap classrooms for online learning, studies have shown that performance in math and reading remains down, but absenteeism is up. Weekly tutoring sessions. Reluctance to see friends in person. These are just someContinue Reading

Canada Ottawa warned travellers who stay in the United States for more than 30 days to make sure they register as required, and Canadians with dual citizenship to use Canadian credentials when presenting to Chinese authorities Register long visits to U.S.; dual citizens visiting China urged to use Canadian IDsTheContinue Reading

A “sophisticated” human smuggling organization run from Montreal posed a threat to national security through its connections to an international network that trafficked in forged Canadian passports, according to allegations in RCMP files obtained by CBC News. The smuggling organization developed an ability to subvert “all regular immigration and securityContinue Reading

Canada Canada has slipped to 18th place in the global World Happiness Report, down three spots from last year and placing it among the “largest losers” in happiness in the last two decades, according to the annual report released Thursday. Canada slipped to 18th place from 15th last year. In 2015,Continue Reading

Canada Habibi’s Mediterranean Foods is recalling its popular Lebanese style hummus because it contains peanuts, which is not declared on the label. Product was distributed in British Columbia, Alberta, as well as possibly other provinces and territories Habibi’s Mediterranean brand Hummus Lebanese Style has been recalled. (Handout/Canadian Food Inspection Agency)Habibi’sContinue Reading