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BEYOND LOCAL: How living life on a screen during COVID-19 affects your eyes

BEYOND LOCAL: How living life on a screen during COVID-19 affects your eyes

We’re spending more and more time on our computers and beginning to notice eye problems
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BEYOND LOCAL: How teachers remember their own childhoods affects how they challenge school inequities

BEYOND LOCAL: How teachers remember their own childhoods affects how they challenge school inequities

How teachers recall their childhoods carries important clues about how likely they are to name and challenge inequities in schools today.
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BEYOND LOCAL: How high-tech contact lenses could one day replace smart phones

BEYOND LOCAL: How high-tech contact lenses could one day replace smart phones

Research bringing together chemistry, biology and microelectronics is resulting in contact lenses that are straight out of science fiction
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ONTARIO: Reopen schools on regional basis: Science Table

ONTARIO: Reopen schools on regional basis: Science Table

The recommendation was made in a letter addressed to Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Saturday
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BEYOND LOCAL: How better conversations can help reduce vaccine hesitancy for COVID-19 and other shots

BEYOND LOCAL: How better conversations can help reduce vaccine hesitancy for COVID-19 and other shots

Empathetically exploring the positive motivations of people who are vaccine hesitant may help improve acceptance for COVID-19 vaccines and others
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CANADA: Canada Post says 950,000 customers potentially exposed to supplier data breach

CANADA: Canada Post says 950,000 customers potentially exposed to supplier data breach

Canada Post says, that after a detailed forensic investigation, there was no evidence that any financial information was breached between July 2016 and March 2019
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ONTARIO: Ford awaits response from dozens of experts, stakeholders before deciding on schools

ONTARIO: Ford awaits response from dozens of experts, stakeholders before deciding on schools

Critics say the last-minute letter shows Ford is passing the buck on making a decision about schools
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CANADA: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

CANADA: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

The school was once the largest in Canada’s residential school system
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CANADA: Black entrepreneurs say access to capital among challenges to success, survey finds

CANADA: Black entrepreneurs say access to capital among challenges to success, survey finds

The survey of 342 Black entrepreneurs found three-quarters say their race makes it harder to succeed in business, with systemic racism, access to capital and the lack of a business network all cited as barriers to growth
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COVID-19: Survey shows 52 per cent of Canadians feel anxious about return to 'normal' after pandemic

COVID-19: Survey shows 52 per cent of Canadians feel anxious about return to 'normal' after pandemic

Those aged 18 to 24 are showing the highest levels of unease at 68 per cent
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