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The City of Toronto is Taking a Strategic Approach to Cutting Costs
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The City of Toronto is Taking a Strategic Approach to Cutting Costs

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Toronto backtracks on return-to-office plans for city employees as Omicron spreads panic A few weeks back the City of Toronto made some bold and innovative moves to streamline all its services and deliver better...

Iranian-Canadian director banned from leaving Tehran, allowed to attend the BFI London Film Festival opening night
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Iranian-Canadian director banned from leaving Tehran, allowed to attend the BFI London Film Festival opening night

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Iranian-Canadian director prevented from leaving Tehran to attend London film fest. Iranian-Canadian director Mohammad Reza Foroutan is prevented from leaving Tehran to attend the London film fest after a security warning. Iranian-Canadian director Mohammad...

Man shot motorcyclist on 405 Freeway in Torrance
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Man shot motorcyclist on 405 Freeway in Torrance

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Motorcyclist reportedly shot on 405 Freeway in Torrance; investigation snarls traffic The scene is at the Torrance Police Department in Torrance. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) LOS ANGELES - A man who was...

Twitter's outage is the latest in a string of large outages for tech companies hit by extreme weather events
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Twitter’s outage is the latest in a string of large outages for tech companies hit by extreme weather events

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Twitter's data center knocked out by extreme heat in California The social media company said it lost a "large amount of data and network service" in the last 24 hours. It had a backup...

The Doctor Who Changed the World
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The Doctor Who Changed the World

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Lessons From a ‘Difficult Patient’ When David G. Hillman, MD, first started working in internal medicine, he was eager to help the sick. He was fascinated by the idea that the human body, often...

Robert Nkonda, the Blind Footballer of Uganda’s National Team
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Robert Nkonda, the Blind Footballer of Uganda’s National Team

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Meet the man who introduced blind football to Uganda. On a recent afternoon, an exuberant, smiling Robert Nkonda walked into the Nsambya Sports Stadium, just north of the capital Kampala. After years of toil,...

The Climate March® is a call to action against climate change.
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The Climate March® is a call to action against climate change.

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Op-Ed: Is smearing food on the 'Mona Lisa' a productive form of climate change protest? As our world continues to heat up, we are called upon to make choices about how we live in...

California to announce major water restrictions
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California to announce major water restrictions

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More water restrictions likely as California pledges to cut use of Colorado River supply State officials and environmental experts say the need to restrict water use will increase as California’s drought continues. The California...

Martina Navratilova says there are plenty of athletes who have not been able to follow in her footsteps
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Martina Navratilova says there are plenty of athletes who have not been able to follow in her footsteps

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Serena Williams 'paved the way' for mothers to keep playing tennis, says Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova believes Serena Williams paved the way for the modern-day role of women athletes by refusing to give up...

The King and the King: A Conversation with David Lynch
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The King and the King: A Conversation with David Lynch

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Baz Luhrmann talks 'Elvis,' how much the King owes Black music, why he still listens to his old albums, 'Cinderella Man' and what his favourite 'Ripley's Believe it or Not!' was. So, what was...