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BEYOND LOCAL: Experts explain why decriminalizing small amounts of drugs could help

BEYOND LOCAL: Experts explain why decriminalizing small amounts of drugs could help

Solving the opioid crisis by decriminalizing access to opioids might seem counterintuitive
CANADA: Employers willing to hire workers without direct experience, survey says

CANADA: Employers willing to hire workers without direct experience, survey says

Amid tight labour market, new study shows Canadian employers are willing to hire workers without experience related to the job
CANADA: Airlines must be held accountable for problems: minister

CANADA: Airlines must be held accountable for problems: minister

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says airlines have a duty to keep their end of the bargain on flight cancellations, missing baggage
MPs may get panic buttons after minister reports death threats

MPs may get panic buttons after minister reports death threats

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he received a number of death threats on Instagram after introducing gun control bill
BEYOND LOCAL: Iceberg Alley may be under threat

BEYOND LOCAL: Iceberg Alley may be under threat

While the Newfoundland iceberg sightseeing tourism industry may well have benefited from a succession of exceptional iceberg seasons, its future is less certain.
BEYOND LOCAL: The new Instagram food trend is normal-looking food

BEYOND LOCAL: The new Instagram food trend is normal-looking food

Since finding and eating edible food was crucial for survival, we may be hard-wired to feel intrinsically good when we simply see food we know we can eat.
BEYOND LOCAL: What a father's love can do for a child

BEYOND LOCAL: What a father's love can do for a child

Love gets under your child’s skin and lives within them forever. It fills their hearts and teaches them they are always enough — and allows them to confidently sparkle and shoot for the stars
BEYOND LOCAL: Reality TV can teach us about implicit bias

BEYOND LOCAL: Reality TV can teach us about implicit bias

Survivor may take contestants to far off places, but they can't leave everything behind
BEYOND LOCAL: The ocean is not a quiet place

BEYOND LOCAL: The ocean is not a quiet place

The sound of the marine environment has been underestimated, mainly because it is not audible to the human ear.
BEYOND LOCAL: Is time travel possible?

BEYOND LOCAL: Is time travel possible?

Our curiosity about time travel is thousands of years old