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Stranded by the Air Canada strike? 3 strategies to keep your cool, work with staff and return home safely

The emails from Air Canada came without warning: flights cancelled at the last minute, no way to get home and no one at Air Canada answering the phones despite repeated calls. Days went by without a solution.

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Who will win the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup? We ran 10,000 simulations to rank the contenders

Women’s rugby is growing rapidly worldwide, and now accounts for 25% of the total global playing base. US women’s rugby star Ilona Maher is the most followed rugby player in the world, ahead of men’s stars Siya Kolisi and Antoine Dupont.

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As back-to-school season approaches, Canadian employers are making a mistake by mandating workers back to the office

Canadian employers have been mandating workers back to in-person work through blanket return-to-office policies. On top of harming workplace equity, these policies have broader repercussions for the public as children head back to school and respiratory illness season looms.

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Freud would have called AI a ‘narcissistic insult’ to humanity – here’s how we might overcome it

In 1917, Sigmund Freud described three “narcissistic insults” that had been caused by science. These were moments of scientific breakthrough that showed humans that we are not as special as we once believed.

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With over 17,000 shops in the UK expected to close this year, city centres must move on from retail

British businesses are under such strain that around 50,000 are on the brink of collapse according to a recent report. Retail is an especially vulnerable sector, with predictions that over 17,300 shops will close this year, costing 200,000 jobs.

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Extreme weather alerts can move markets – here’s what investors can learn from our new research

Many of us check the weather forecast to plan our day – to decide whether to carry an umbrella, postpone a trip or work from home when snow is on the horizon. But weather alerts can influence more than just our personal routines. They can also move financial markets.

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Why preventive mastectomy isn’t offered to everyone at risk

When Jesse J, Christina Applegate and Katie Thurston spoke openly about their mastectomies, their candour did more than share private struggles. It highlighted a procedure that, while often life saving, is unevenly available depending on the genetic lottery into which someone is born.

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Why the Arthur’s Seat burn is a cautionary tale for the UK’s wildfire management strategy

For the tenth time this year, a wildfire warning covers most of Scotland. The latest alert came after a recent, and not the first, gorse fire on Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh’s iconic ancient volcano that draws millions of visitors every year. Fire crews think human activity caused the fire. This is…

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Pierre Poilievre wins Alberta byelection — but he’s got a long road ahead to broaden his base

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will return to Parliament, this time as the new member for the Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot.

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Hype and western values are shaping AI reporting in Africa: what needs to change

News media shape public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and influence how society interacts with these technologies. For many people, especially those who have not sought more knowledge about AI elsewhere, media platforms are a primary source of information.

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Cameroon’s conflict is part of a bigger trend: negotiations are losing ground to military solutions

In central Africa, a violent conflict has been unfolding for nearly eight years. What began in 2016 as peaceful protests by lawyers and teachers against the increasing “francophonisation” of the legal and education systems in Cameroon’s anglophone regions quickly escalated into an armed conflict between separatist groups and government forces.

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Young South Africans don’t bother with elections: would lowering the voting age make a difference?

South Africa is due to hold local government elections in 2026. In the last election in 2021, only 15% of the eligible voters aged 18 to 21 registered for the election. In view of this, it’s worth considering whether the minimum voting age of 18 years should be reduced to…

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AI-generated misinformation can create confusion and hinder responses during emergencies

In one of the first communications of its kind, the British Columbia Wildfire Service has issued a warning to residents about viral, AI-generated fake wildfire images circulating online. Judging by comments made by viewers on social media, some people did not realize the images were not authentic.

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Chikungunya: what UK travellers should know about this mosquito-borne virus

The UK’s Health Security Agency has advised overseas travellers to take precautions to avoid contracting the potentially severe mosquito-borne virus, Chikungunya.

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Part of your brain gets bigger as you get older – here is what that means for you

I recently asked myself if I’ll still have a healthy brain as I get older. I hold a professorship at a neurology department. Nevertheless, it is difficult for me to judge if a particular brain, including my own, suffers from early neurodegeneration.

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Kharkiv: what I saw in Ukraine’s ‘unbreakable’ eastern capital

I visited Ukraine last week to update my knowledge of the military situation there. I was privileged to be invited to visit Kharkiv by a friend – and spent several days there seeing the sights, while avoiding the more dangerous parts of the city where drone and missile attacks are…

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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a significant amount of water. Data centers use water directly, with cooling water pumped through pipes in and around the computer equipment. They…

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What an old folktale can teach us about the ‘annoying persistence’ of political comedians

Fear of reprisals from the Trump administration has made many people cautious about expressing their opinions. Fired federal workers are asking not to be quoted by their name, for fear of losing housing. Business leaders are concerned about harm to their companies. Universities are changing their curricula, and scholars are…

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One of Hurricane Katrina’s most important lessons isn’t about storm preparations – it’s about injustice

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, the images still haunt us: entire neighborhoods underwater, families stranded on rooftops and a city brought to its knees.

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Chaos gardening – wild beauty, or just a mess? A sustainable landscape specialist explains the trend

If you’ve spent any time in the gardening corners of social media lately, you’ve likely come across a trend called “chaos gardening.”

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How bigotry crushed the dreams of an all-Black Little League team

John Rivers, John Bailey, David Middleton, Leroy Major and Buck Godfrey – all teammates from the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Star team – left Charleston, South Carolina, on a bus on Aug. 18, 2025.

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Reverse discrimination? In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged

Two big assumptions underlie President Donald Trump’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The first is that discrimination against people of color is a thing of the past. The second is that DEI policies and practices discriminate against white people – especially white men – in what’s sometimes called…

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Misspelled names may give brands a Lyft – if the spelling isn’t too weird

Consumers don’t mind when companies use misspelled words – think Lyft for “lift” or Froot Loops for “fruit loops” – as their brand names, as long as the alterations aren’t too extreme and the misspelling makes sense.

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Israeli PM Netanyahu denounces ‘weak’ Albanese in social media outburst

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, accusing him of betraying Israel and abandoning Australia’s Jews.

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Bolivia election: voters bring two decades of leftist politics to an end

A seismic political shift has taken place in Bolivia. The country’s leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party, which has dominated Bolivian politics for nearly 20 years, was voted out of power in a general election on August 17.

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