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At this summer camp, being different is what helps kids fit in

20 août 2025 à 16:53

Verona Scorsone-Jung and her new best friend are jumping off the dock at their summer camp, swimming to the ladder and doing it all over again in a continuous loop of carefree summer fun.

Then there’s a pause, because 10-year-old Verona wants to explain a few things about having Tourette syndrome.

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Left to right, Evelyn Simmons, 14, and Violet Mcallister, 10, swim with fellow campers at Camp Maple Leaf on August 12, 2025. (Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail)

Canada’s severe drought is a sign of future climate conditions and calls for action, experts say

20 août 2025 à 16:03
A water storage area near farmland at Westcoast Vegetables in Delta, B.C., March, 2024. Canada is home to 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater but less than half of it is naturally renewed through the hydrological cycle.

Canada must prepare for more seasons marked by severe drought, experts say as this summer’s bone-dry conditions tormented farmers, strained municipal water supply and fuelled one of the worst wildfire seasons on record.

Seventy-one per cent of the country was either abnormally dry or under drought conditions as of the end of July, according to the federal government’s drought monitor released last week.

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  • Have cellphone bans been effective in schools? Share your thoughts
    Last fall, governments across Canada enacted policies that restricted phone use in the classroom – with rules varying for elementary schools and high schools. The increased use of cellphones and social media by students has been a source of concern for policy makers, educators and parents. The devices and platforms have been blamed for incidents of cyberbullying, disrupted sleep patterns and the inability of young people to focus.Cellphone bans in schools seem to be working, but some wonder how
     

Have cellphone bans been effective in schools? Share your thoughts

20 août 2025 à 14:10

Last fall, governments across Canada enacted policies that restricted phone use in the classroom – with rules varying for elementary schools and high schools. The increased use of cellphones and social media by students has been a source of concern for policy makers, educators and parents. The devices and platforms have been blamed for incidents of cyberbullying, disrupted sleep patterns and the inability of young people to focus.

Cellphone bans in schools seem to be working, but some wonder how long that will last

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  • Police investigating after body found on roof of Montreal hospital
    Police in Montreal’s northern suburb are investigating after a man in his 40s was found dead on the roof of a hospital on Tuesday.Sgt. Laurent Arsenault with police in Laval, Que., says officers were called to Cité-de-la-santé hospital at around 9:35 a.m. by employees who found the body.Arsenault says the man was declared dead at the scene.
     

Police investigating after body found on roof of Montreal hospital

20 août 2025 à 13:41

Police in Montreal’s northern suburb are investigating after a man in his 40s was found dead on the roof of a hospital on Tuesday.

Sgt. Laurent Arsenault with police in Laval, Que., says officers were called to Cité-de-la-santé hospital at around 9:35 a.m. by employees who found the body.

Arsenault says the man was declared dead at the scene.

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Signage is seen on a police car in Laval, Que., on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
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  • Some evacuation orders, alerts linked to Vancouver Island fire lifted after rain
    Some of the evacuation orders and alerts linked to the Mount Underwood wildfire on Vancouver Island have been lifted or downgraded, as firefighters report “minimal” behaviour from the blaze.The Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, the City of Port Alberni and the Tseshaht First Nation jointly issued an update at 8 a.m. saying evacuation orders are lifted for the China Creek Campground and Headquarters Bay, which remain on evacuation alert.
     

Some evacuation orders, alerts linked to Vancouver Island fire lifted after rain

20 août 2025 à 12:48
The BC Wildfire Service says the Mount Underwood fire, shown on Aug. 16, is not expected to grow beyond its current size.

Some of the evacuation orders and alerts linked to the Mount Underwood wildfire on Vancouver Island have been lifted or downgraded, as firefighters report “minimal” behaviour from the blaze.

The Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, the City of Port Alberni and the Tseshaht First Nation jointly issued an update at 8 a.m. saying evacuation orders are lifted for the China Creek Campground and Headquarters Bay, which remain on evacuation alert.

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  • Texas can’t require public schools to display Ten Commandments in every classroom, judge says
    Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement, making it the third such state law to be blocked by a court.A group of Dallas-area families and faith leaders sought a preliminary injunction against the law, which goes into effect on Sept. 1. They say the requirement violates the First Amendment’s protections for the separation of church and state and the right to free religio
     

Texas can’t require public schools to display Ten Commandments in every classroom, judge says

20 août 2025 à 11:33

Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement, making it the third such state law to be blocked by a court.

A group of Dallas-area families and faith leaders sought a preliminary injunction against the law, which goes into effect on Sept. 1. They say the requirement violates the First Amendment’s protections for the separation of church and state and the right to free religious exercise.

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  • Canadian Armed Forces investigating Nazi salute video, five soldiers suspended
    The Canadian Armed Forces is investigating an incident of alleged hateful conduct after a video surfaced of people allegedly performing the Nazi salute. Lieutenant-General Michael Wright, commander of the army, said in a statement Tuesday that he became aware of a video on Aug. 6 containing “hateful conduct involving members of the Canadian Army.” Lt.-Gen. Wright said the video was referred to military police within hours of it being shared, and five people were later identified as serving membe
     

Canadian Armed Forces investigating Nazi salute video, five soldiers suspended

19 août 2025 à 20:05

The Canadian Armed Forces is investigating an incident of alleged hateful conduct after a video surfaced of people allegedly performing the Nazi salute.

Lieutenant-General Michael Wright, commander of the army, said in a statement Tuesday that he became aware of a video on Aug. 6 containing “hateful conduct involving members of the Canadian Army.”

Lt.-Gen. Wright said the video was referred to military police within hours of it being shared, and five people were later identified as serving members.

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A Canadian soldier takes part in an announcement in Petawawa, Ont., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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  • UBC experiment aims to reignite cold fusion nuclear quest
    The Thunderbird reactor sounds like an impressive piece of scientific hardware. Impressive it may be, but not because of size, noise or heat. Rather, it is a tabletop experiment operating at the University of British Columbia. And somehow, it seems to be exhibiting a version of the nuclear reactions that power the sun.Welcome to the quiet renaissance of cold fusion.
     

UBC experiment aims to reignite cold fusion nuclear quest

20 août 2025 à 11:00
Curtis Berlinguette, principal investigator of Berlinguette Research, stands inside one of his program’s labs on the UBC campus in Vancouver on Tuesday. Behind him is a reactor part of Project Thunderbird.

The Thunderbird reactor sounds like an impressive piece of scientific hardware. Impressive it may be, but not because of size, noise or heat. Rather, it is a tabletop experiment operating at the University of British Columbia. And somehow, it seems to be exhibiting a version of the nuclear reactions that power the sun.

Welcome to the quiet renaissance of cold fusion.

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