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BEYOND LOCAL: Kids Help Phone enlists AI to tackle 'enormous' demand

BEYOND LOCAL: Kids Help Phone enlists AI to tackle 'enormous' demand

Artificial Intelligence will be able to recognize key words and speech patterns from young people who reach out, allowing busy counsellors to zero in on what that caller needs
CANADA: Online News Act creates 'moment of reckoning' for publishers

CANADA: Online News Act creates 'moment of reckoning' for publishers

In response to Bill C-18, Meta and Google have said they will remove news by Canadian journalism outlets from their sites before the law comes into force
BEYOND LOCAL: As extreme heat worsens, expert calls access to cooling a human right

BEYOND LOCAL: As extreme heat worsens, expert calls access to cooling a human right

Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, has sought to bring attention to the need for greater heat adaptation as Canada is set to experience higher daily temperatures and longer heat waves under climate change
CANADA: Record-breaking fire season will continue for months: officials

CANADA: Record-breaking fire season will continue for months: officials

Atlantic provinces and eastern Quebec are expected to see more normal conditions in August, but other parts of the country can expect the severity forecast to be well above average, projections show
ONTARIO: Top doc links spread of tick-borne illness to climate change

ONTARIO: Top doc links spread of tick-borne illness to climate change

Over the last 20 years there has been a rise in the incidence of Lyme disease as ticks are able to survive the winters, says Dr. Kieran Moore
BEYOND LOCAL: Beloved police dog helped Stratford police before death

BEYOND LOCAL: Beloved police dog helped Stratford police before death

Two men are charged with numerous offences after a police dog died assisting in an investigation
ONTARIO: Police crack 1975 cold case, charge Florida man with murder

ONTARIO: Police crack 1975 cold case, charge Florida man with murder

The victim, who was found dead east of Ottawa in 1975, has been identified; 81-year-old man arrested
Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth. Wednesday may break it.

Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth. Wednesday may break it.

The planet's temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high, the latest in a series of climate-change ext
BEYOND LOCAL: Astronaut Jeremy Hansen sees great potential for Canada

BEYOND LOCAL: Astronaut Jeremy Hansen sees great potential for Canada

The 47-year-old colonel and CF-18 pilot is to become the first Canadian to travel to the moon as part of the Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as November next year

CANADA: Nunavut's historic land-use plan submitted after 16 years

The plan includes requirements for key wildlife habitat, contaminated sites, military facilities, community areas of interest and drinking water