There’s an old Soviet joke. An aide of the General Secretary and ruler Leonid Brezhnev rushes into his office during an election. Brezhnev’s communists secured 99.8 per cent of the vote but the aide is still worried. “We’ve been robbed!” he yells. “Someone broke into the Kremlin vault and stole next year’s election results!” More … Read more
A group of educators and researchers invited by Alberta Education to help develop the new social studies curriculum has “significant concerns” with the draft released this week. An open letter from eight educators and researchers who were part of the K-6 Curriculum Development Specialist Group claims their input was “largely ignored.” The government said it … Read more
Neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, migraines, stroke and multiple sclerosis are now the leading cause of ill health and disability around the world, affecting 3.4 billion people, according to a new study. The study, published Thursday in Lancet Neurology, found that these neurological conditions affected 43 per cent of the world population and caused … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size This isn’t your average blueberry. A giant blueberry made the record books this week, capturing the Guinness World Record title of world’s heaviest blueberry for its scale-tipping weight of 20.4 grams — around ten times the average weight of a normal berry. The fruit was picked on … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Russia began three days of voting on Friday in an presidential election that is set to extend the rule of Vladimir Putin by six more years. Two years into the war in Ukraine, Putin dominates Russia’s political landscape and none of the other three candidates on the … Read more
While hiking in the Welsh countryside, one might expect to find green pastures, spindly deciduous trees and fluffy sheep — but one hiker on Tuesday discovered a large monolith mysteriously placed atop a hill in the county of Powys. Craig Muir said he was hiking up Hay Bluff in Wales when he came across the … Read more
Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so, saying in a new memoir he still has “many projects to bring to fruition.” Francis, 87, made the comments in an autobiography, Life: My Story Through History, which is being published Tuesday, the 11th … Read more
Only “essential personnel” will remain at Canada’s embassy in Haiti as Ottawa says it is temporarily reducing the size of its mission in the Caribbean nation. Global Affairs Canada (GAC) said in a statement Thursday it is doing so given the “volatile situation” in the country. “Canada is temporarily drawing down to essential personnel at … Read more
Many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate, the UN Development Program said Wednesday. Achim Steiner, head of the agency, said that after two decades during which rich and poor countries were coming closer in terms of development, the finding … Read more
In a rare natural phenomenon that has not been witnessed since the 1800s, illions of cicadas are poised to emerge from their decades-long slumber across the eastern half of the United States this spring and early summer. This double brood event will happen just south of Canada, with both 13-year and 17-year cicadas emerging simultaneously, … Read more
