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Will an apple a day keep the doctor away?
Just so there’s no confusion: In our processed, fast-food, anxiety-riddled society, life without sugar is not an option. Yes, the World Health Organization (WHO) says otherwise, but. . .well, come...
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Heading for the hot seat of global warming
It’s been four years since the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted the end of the world. In that interval, the doom-saying industry has grown to meet the rising demands of...
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The secret of our success is simple. We’re crazy
Each day that passes on this third rock from an average star in the boondocks of a commonplace galaxy brings fresh evidence of the truth about our circumstances as, very likely, the only sentient...
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The unscientific methods of Canada’s politicos
Despite claims of mounting evidence to the contrary, Canadians are, indeed, a scientifically minded folk after all. Or perhaps we only wish we were in the face the awful truth about our patently...
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Out of the labs and onto the campaign trail
Federal scientists are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. That’s why they recently formed a committee to, you know, “take a decision” as to whether they should become, um, more...
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Oh, a-fracking we will not go. . .
You have to hand it to him. If nothing else, New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant is a man of his word. He galloped into office with a promise that, he believed, resonated with most voters: No more...
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Battle lines in the war on science
The scientific community and the rest of us enjoy, let’s just say, a complicated relationship. The rest us of understand, at some basic level, that outside of nature virtually nothing we see, smell,...
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How goes the battle for truth?
In the language of triumphalism that always graces a newly elected leader’s speech to an international audience, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared, last week, that “Canada is back”. On the...
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ROCKET MAN: Will Canso become the next Cape Canaveral?
One bright, sunny day in the near future, the inhabitants of tiny Canso, Nova Scotia, might spy from their craggy shoreline a new vessel launching into the great wide open. This time, though, it won’t...
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The life deeply lived
After decades of taking names and kicking ass in universities around the world, Halifax-bred oceanographer Anya Waite comes home to launch her next, excellent adventure on the high seas of academe...
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