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Amazon River Dolphin Wins Underwater Photographer of the Year—Beside Sea Jungles and Shipwrecks

We humans may fancy our dry-land abode a pretty fine place, yet nature has created a whole universe full of jaw-dropping scenes underwater. And it’s just waiting for landbound photographers to embrace its marine majesty. Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) specifically focuses on this milieu of aquatic, camera-wielding visual artists in its yearly competition, displaying some of […]

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Pandemic Performance Study Blatant Attempt to Justify Feds’ Actions?

Commentary Rather than learning from the painful lessons of the past three years, it’s obvious that we’ve entered a post-pandemic phase of government-led alarmism. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)—including Theresa Tam—has published a study in a Canadian public health journal declaring that pandemic-inspired restrictions substantially reduced the impact of COVID-19 in Canada. “Counterfactuals

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Food Makers, Feeling Squeezed, Pull the Plug on Slow-Selling Products

BOCA RATON, Florida/LONDON—Major consumer companies including Kraft Heinz Co. and Conagra Brands Inc. are culling product lines to combat sky-high costs and falling consumer demand, their executives said this week. Many companies started slimming their offerings during the pandemic and are aggressively renewing those efforts, eliminating less-popular items to focus on products on which they

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Railroad Company Linked to Toxic Train Crash Helped Fund Ohio Governor’s Campaigns: Report

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who authorized an end to the evacuation order of East Palestine two days after a controlled burn sent toxic vinyl chloride into the air and onto the ground after a Norfolk Southern Railway train crash, has received financial support from the railroad for several years, according to a Columbus, Ohio TV

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Ontario Woman Who Regrets Becoming a Man Warns Against ‘Social Contagion’ of Rushed Transgender Surgery

At 21 years old, after a history of being treated for social anxiety, clinical depression, panic attacks, self-harming behaviour, and a suicide attempt, Michelle Zacchigna thought she might be a man. She was unhappy and depressed and had dropped out of university due to her declining mental health. She became fascinated with a “gender nonconformity”

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Behind the Agenda to Rid Canada’s Military Chaplaincy of Traditional Faith Groups

Commentary Fifteen years ago, the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service was wrestling with the corollaries of pluralism in Canada, and how to tap into the benefits of true diversity in the Canadian multicultural context. Even though I am an orthodox Lutheran, who does not believe that all religions are equally valid expressions of truth, I was

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Quarter of Americans Would Use Credit Cards for $1,000 Emergency: Poll

A quarter of U.S. citizens would resort to using credit cards when faced with a $1,000 emergency expense, even as credit card interest rates are elevated amid decades-high inflation. When asked how they would pay for a $1,000 emergency, 25 percent of respondents to a Feb. 23 survey by Bankrate replied they would finance the

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Advanced Cancer Does Not Mean the End of Life, Ancient Therapy Can Inhibit Tumor Spread

Tumors have become a common abnormality in modern day society. While many cancerous tumors have reached an advanced stage by the time they are discovered, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has become a viable treatment option. Ruan Ailian, a registered traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in Hong Kong, references the program “100 Ways to Treat 100 Diseases”

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Russia’s Medvedev Floats Idea of Pushing Back Poland’s Borders

LONDON—Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the only way for Moscow to ensure a lasting peace with Ukraine was to push back the borders of hostile states as far as possible, even if that meant the frontiers of NATO member Poland. Medvedev, who is now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, made

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The Innocence and Honesty of Children: ‘My First Sermon’ and ‘My Second Sermon’

Brits of the Victorian age went to church. They also brought their children to church, so they could listen to inspiring sermons. Very much a part of his age, artist John Edward Millais (1829–1996) and his family attended church services. In 1863, he brought his 5-year-old daughter Effie to her first church service. Artist that he

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