Un chat domestique faisant sa toilette. Une nouvelle étude démontre qu’il n'y a pas que le nettoyage en jeu…
Image courtesy of Candler Hobbs (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta).
Jusqu’à récemment, on ne savait pas pourquoi les langues de chats étaient si râpeuses. Le mystère est maintenant -partiellement- résolu. Il y a autre chose qui se passe quand le chat fait sa toilette.
En préparant les plats des fêtes, nous devenons nostalgiques, nous commémorons des époques révolues auxquelles nous cherchons symboliquement à nous rattacher. Mais pouvons-nous réinventer les traditions?
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En préparant les plats des fêtes, nous commémorons des époques révolues auxquelles nous cherchons symboliquement à nous rattacher. Mais pouvons-nous réinventer les traditions?
Be mindful of what you get excited about, as children will model your lead.
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Hide the credit cards and instead build traditions with your kids. Supporting a child through gift disappointment is important to their emotional, cognitive and social development.
This photo from May 2018 shows Cyntoia Brown at her clemency hearing at the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville, Tenn. On Jan. 7, 2019, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted executive clemency to Brown, serving a life sentence for a murder that happened after she was forced into sex work.
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Cyntoia Brown has been granted clemency for killing a man when she was a teenager and forced into the sex trade. The case showed why the justice system must stop punishing women for defending themselves.
Steel mills, like this one in Hamilton, Ont. emit greenhouse gases. Ontario must reduce its emissions from 161 megatonnes to 143 megatonnes by 2030.
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Ontario’s new environment plan scores poorly on conservative ethos.
Meng Wanzhou, CFO of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, is shown arriving at a parole office in Vancouver on Dec. 12. Her arrest at the request of the U.S. officials has strained Canada-Chinese relations.
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China is influential, but would not have succeeded in changing the UN human rights system without quiet consent from countries who wished to trade with it, including Canada.
Children in the Willows forest nature program in the Humber Valley in west Toronto are drawn to water and sticks, simple materials for exploring and investigating. Here the children explore water accumulated from spring rains.
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When parents walk in the forest with their children and us and see how children are drawn to spiral snails, together we see how connections with the land are critical for the Earth’s future.
Research shows that a parent’s level of generosity and charitable behaviour is linked with their child’s display of the same behaviours.
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Children start developing empathy and compassion as toddlers and should have a good understanding of generosity by age nine. Parents can help foster these behaviours.
L’horaire des rendez-vous vise à maximiser la productivité médicale de façon à éviter de gaspiller de précieuses ressources. Mais il doit aussi tenter de minimiser l’attente des patients au bureau.
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L’horaire des rendez-vous vise à maximiser la productivité médicale de façon à éviter de gaspiller de précieuses ressources. Mais il doit aussi tenter de minimiser l’attente des patients au bureau.
The freedom to choose one’s clothes is key to sartorial experimentation. In the late 1920s, the Catholic Register wrote that these swimsuits were indecent.
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The We'suwet'en First Nation is fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which would stretch nearly 700 kilometres across northern B.C. through their unceded land.
How much judges are paid is a thorny issue for governments. It shouldn’t be.
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Secure and appropriate compensation for judges is a constitutionally recognized component of judicial independence. Here’s why politics must not be allowed to interfere with it.
The lack of political will to meet emission targets could see more extreme flooding in the future, like what happened the Québec community of Gatineau in 2017.
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Achieving climate objectives is economically realistic, but won’t be possible without the support of a real transition strategy that is still lacking at all levels of government in Canada.
Paramedics bury a man who died of the Nipah virus in Kozhikode, southern India, in May 2018. There is no vaccine for the virus, which can cause raging fevers, convulsions and vomiting, and kills up to 75 per cent of people infected.
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As new viruses “jump” from wildlife to humans and we struggle with antimicrobial resistance and even climate change, a new interdisciplinary approach to human health might just save the day.
Notre arsenal d’antibiotiques, jusqu’à présent efficace pour traiter la plupart des infections, devient inefficace face à certaines bactéries. D'ci 30 ans, ces infections pourraient tuer dix millions de personnes par an.
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Notre arsenal d’antibiotiques le sera moins face à certaines bactéries. D'ci 30 ans, ces infections pourraient tuer dix millions de personnes par an.
The United Nations says people “left behind” include those vulnerable to the effects of climate change, but aren’t the furthest behind those damaging the environment? Here, a man rides a bicycle through a devastated Homs, Syria. Numerous studies say climate change was a factor in record-setting drought, one of several causes of the country’s civil war.
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The United Nations Declaration on sustainable development stresses “leaving no-one behind,” but what about the factors that cause many to be behind in the first place?
Canadians seem not to want to talk about race and racism, deferring instead to ‘income’ and immigration status when it comes to measuring education success.
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News of Canada’s successful immigrant students glosses over important stories of racism, for example the ‘streaming’ of Black males. But without more data beyond Toronto, the story is hard to share.
Firefighters battle the Camp Fire as it tears through Paradise, Calif. on Nov. 8, 2018.
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A remote medicine program in Saskatchewan allows acutely ill children and pregnant women to be treated by specialist doctors, without leaving their communities.
Many of us collect points via loyalty programs. They’re popular, but can cause headaches for the companies who head up loyalty and rewards programs.
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The companies that head up loyalty rewards programs must compensate for their uncertainty about your reward preferences.
Sur vos mains, vos télécommandes ou vos poignées de porte, le virus de la grippe est partout. Un scientifique nous dit comment l'éliminer de votre foyer.
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Sur vos mains, vos télécommandes ou vos poignées de porte, le virus de la grippe est partout. Un scientifique nous dit comment l'éliminer de votre foyer.
Brian Harriman, le président et PDG de Cannabis NB, montre quelques produits du cannabis, dans une succursale de Fredericton, au NB, mardi le 16 octobre 2018.
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La légalisation du cannabis provoque l'émergence d'une féroce compétition entre le marché du cannabis légal et le marché noir. Les producteurs, détaillants et gouvernements devront s’adapter.
‘(Made in Love)’ is a video installation built around local photography studio images.
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A video art installation on view at the McIntosh Gallery until Jan. 12 explores the history of South Asian indentured labourers in the Caribbean.
Coal smokestacks are seen peeking through the clouds in Kentucky. Both Canada and the U.S. need Green New Deals to help create healthy and sustainable economies that are no longer reliant on fossil fuels.
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A Green New Deal would confront both climate change and social inequality. Its prospects in the United States are uncertain, but Canada should endeavour to develop one of its own anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Chairman of Human Rights Commission, and Charles Malik, Chairman of the General Assembly’s Third Committee (second from right), during a press conference after the completion of the Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948.
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