last year, a teenage gorilla in a Chicago zoo "became so engrossed in cellphones he started ignoring his peers" # | Continue reading
They walked “the bridge between science and art” to account for imperfections in cameras and use other methods to represent what telescope captured. | Continue reading
Waters that tested high for E. coli using traditional means were marked safe by the new system dozens of times, says Swim Drink Fish. | Continue reading
Tim Hortons says it has reached a proposed settlement in multiple class action lawsuits alleging the restaurant’s mobile app violated customer privacy which would see the restaurant offer a free coffee and doughnut to affected users. | Continue reading
TORONTO - Thousands of tech workers started hunting for new jobs as layoffs rippled across the industry in recent weeks, but many say these workers wo... | Continue reading
Freshii founder Matthew Corrin left the fast food chain two months ago to focus on Percy, a video-calling device that replaces cashiers. It now has more than a dozen clients in North America and employs nearly 100 workers in Nicaragua, Pakistan and Bolivia. | Continue reading
In 1997, a rogue wave sent a massive shipment of Lego overboard off the coast of England. Twenty-five years later, the plastic toys are still being washed ashore. | Continue reading
Research conducted by Abacus Data asked 1,500 Canadians about their stance on conspiracy theories that have become popular during the pandemic. | Continue reading
The government is expected to rule later this week on appeals of CRTC decision. Quebec’s largest independent ISP recently sold itself to Bell, and others say ruling on rates is killing competition. | Continue reading
Despite the federal government’s assurances that it won’t regulate videos Canadians post for fun on platforms like YouTube and TikTok, a former top regulator has warned that a government bill still leaves the door open for doing precisely that. | Continue reading
Union leaders ‘disgusted’ as restaurant chain develops ‘labour optimization programs’ that outsource jobs to countries that pay less. | Continue reading
Canada’s highest court ruled that one of the men behind the notorious 2012 maple syrup heist in Quebec will have to pay the fine. | Continue reading
New poll indicates that “vaccine refusers are much more sympathetic to Russia.” | Continue reading
An estimated 300,000 fewer surgeries were performed during the pandemic compared to the equivalent period before COVID. | Continue reading
A group of five men exclusively control the donations — which have now reached around $500,000 Canadian. | Continue reading
As those holiday purchases begin to arrive at your door, we take a look at how those packages may arrive in the near future. | Continue reading
Transportation accounts for 36 per cent of Toronto’s greenhouse gas emissions, so shifting more deliveries to cargo bike would make a big difference. | Continue reading
Legislation expected to be introduced this week will, if passed, require workplaces with more than 25 employees to develop internal right-to-disconnec... | Continue reading
First-time homebuyers have been edged out as the dominant group purchasing in Toronto. It’s a shift that has split experts, with some saying investors... | Continue reading
Canadian and American Instacart workers plan to walk off the job this weekend in a bid to secure better pay and more benefits. | Continue reading
A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives negates the theory that servers and workers are still on government aid. Instead, most h... | Continue reading
The U.S. is set to start requiring proof of vaccination in the coming weeks, raising questions about what exactly that means for people with mixed dos... | Continue reading
The nearly three year saga of Meng Wanzhou’s detention in Canada is all but over, but the ordeal faced by two Canadians arrested in China drags on. | Continue reading
The cost of inaction and delays in affordable housing isn’t just continued poverty and suffering — it’s big money wasted on poor outcomes. | Continue reading
The agriculture industry may be facing an existential threat, Frank Giustra writes. | Continue reading
Monitoring of Chinese nationals abroad, and other people of Chinese origin, is posing a challenge that many western countries have been slow to face, ... | Continue reading
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign... | Continue reading
‘We haven’t had much of a problem hiring’: Businesses say they face a shortage of workers, yet wages have hardly budged. What happens when businesses ... | Continue reading
Landlords and tenants may find themselves the latest relationship to navigate conversations over vaccine status. | Continue reading
Geoffrey’s remote operators are part of a burgeoning practice that impacts Toronto’s gig workers — and those abroad. | Continue reading
Redesigning our urban spaces to be greener and more equitable means making them less car-centric, Navneet Alang writes. | Continue reading
Extreme heat caused the death of what one marine biologist estimates to be roughly one billion animals in the Salish Sea. | Continue reading
Some donors to Ryerson University ‘sitting on sidelines’ as they wait to see how controversy over name change ends amid recent discoveries of unmarked... | Continue reading
The 25 richest Americans, including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Elon Musk, paid little to no federal income taxes between 2014 and 2018, accordi... | Continue reading
Only FDA-approved vaccines will be accepted at the first Broadway show since the pandemic began. Experts say there could be more problems ahead with v... | Continue reading
Planning on ignoring the province's COVID-19 restrictions? It could cost you. | Continue reading
Toronto made it to the middle of the pack of Amazon’s 20-city short list of potential sites for the tech giant’s second headquarters, a new book revea... | Continue reading
A feel-good story in which a Montana First Nation was holding COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the Canada-United States border in southwestern Alberta ... | Continue reading
Regulating content on social media platforms is not an assault on free speech. It is a necessary and urgent issue only government has the power to tac... | Continue reading
A federal advisory committee recommended against injecting the AstraZeneca vaccine into younger adults due to reports of “rare” blood clotting events,... | Continue reading
SAN DIEGO - A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted two men linked to a Canadian company on racketeering and drug charges over allegations they... | Continue reading
Mike Neill, a former Peel police officer, wanted to save a life as he ended his own, outside of hospital. Toronto health-care leaders pushed the bound... | Continue reading
The metal was thought to be a miracle balm, purging the body of bile. A new book, Quackery, chronicles this and other bizarre medical misfires. | Continue reading
Big grocers are investing millions in online delivery systems and hiking fees for suppliers. Some experts say shoppers could end up paying more and ge... | Continue reading
Toronto Public Health data contains revelations about how the virus slipped into the city and gained a foothold before taking aim at the most vulnerab... | Continue reading
Amid excitement over unpublished U.S. military findings about “unidentified aerial phenomena,” we look at how reports of flying saucers, aliens and ot... | Continue reading
A Pentagon contractor gave a classified briefing to U.S. government officials in March about ‘off-world vehicles not made on this earth.’ Surely it’s ... | Continue reading