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CANADA: Leafs' defenceman Borje Salming dead at 71

CANADA: Leafs' defenceman Borje Salming dead at 71

Hockey Hall of Fame inductee died following a battle with ALS
CANADA: Captain says World Cup team having an impact back home

CANADA: Captain says World Cup team having an impact back home

Captain Atiba Hutchinson is also the only Canadian player who was alive when Canada last made the World Cup in 1986
BEYOND LOCAL: Older adults should be included in design of new technologies

BEYOND LOCAL: Older adults should be included in design of new technologies

This will not only help to avoid costly barriers to technology adoption, but will help alleviate the increasing challenges of technologically related discrimination, exclusion, and inclusion that both explicitly and implicitly colour and shape experiences of aging
CANADA: Federal government tables bill to help supply chain, ease inflation

CANADA: Federal government tables bill to help supply chain, ease inflation

MONTREAL — As supply chain disruptions continue to add to the rising cost of living, Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra hopes to help fix the problem with new legislation, but said improvements will take time.
BEYOND LOCAL: Sale of beer with alcohol banned at World Cup stadiums

BEYOND LOCAL: Sale of beer with alcohol banned at World Cup stadiums

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The sale of all beer with alcohol at the eight World Cup stadiums was banned Friday, only two days before the soccer tournament is set to start. Non-alcoholic beer will still be sold at the 64 matches in the country.
BEYOND LOCAL: Loblaw, Metro warn food inflation could persist

BEYOND LOCAL: Loblaw, Metro warn food inflation could persist

Two of Canada’s grocers say food suppliers are continuing to pass along new cost increases, signalling higher food prices will persist into 2023
BEYOND LOCAL: NHL deploys new app to track greenhouse emissions of its arenas

BEYOND LOCAL: NHL deploys new app to track greenhouse emissions of its arenas

The same technology that NHL players and coaches use on the bench to track real-time metrics during games is now being applied to track their arena's greenhouse gas emissions.
CANADA: Limited transportation infrastructure facing threats in the North

CANADA: Limited transportation infrastructure facing threats in the North

YELLOWKNIFE — Andrew Arreak says travelling on the ice — the main highway in Canada's Arctic — provides access to the land and food, connects communities and is part of Inuit identity. But climate change is making ice travel less predictable.
BEYOND LOCAL: The science of spiciness

BEYOND LOCAL: The science of spiciness

There is not a single animal that enjoys hot pepper, but we are not the only animal species eating chillies. Mammals, like mice and squirrels, share the same spicy food receptors humans have, and they tend to avoid hot peppers as food sources
BEYOND LOCAL: Loss of Arctic summer sea ice now inevitable by 2050

BEYOND LOCAL: Loss of Arctic summer sea ice now inevitable by 2050

A new report from dozens of international scientists says it's inevitable the Arctic will lose its entire summer sea cover at least once over the next generation and probably a lot more often than that.