New research suggests the rate of nicotine pouch use among young people in Canada has skyrocketed — with more than one third saying they’ve tried them. The data, gathered by the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, found that in 2022, 7.6 per cent of respondents had used a nicotine pouch. By 2026, that number had more…
Young men in black hoodies and balaclavas throwing stones and firebombs and targeting cars and homes. It’s all so depressing familiar, particularly in Belfast, where these scenes are playing out after disturbing footage emerged of a man, identified by police as a Sudanese asylum seeker, attacking another man with a kitchen knife in the north…
The federal government’s new AI strategy lays out a plan for 250,000 new AI-relevant jobs in five years. But is that realistic? CBC Radio’s The House breaks it down.
A good book can be truly transcendent, whisking you away to far-off unfamiliar worlds or immersing you in your own neighbourhood. Some books become synonymous with their setting: think Brisbane and Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe or Far North Queensland and Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria. With ABC Radio National set to count down the Top 100…
Manitoba·New Video game giant Ubisoft has closed its studio in Winnipeg, affecting around 65 employees. Closure comes after company said in 2022 it planned to triple Winnipeg workforce by 2030 CBC News · Posted: Jun 10, 2026 2:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio…
Nearly 50 years ago, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind took the trope of hostile space invaders and, vibing with new-age ’70s spiritualism, transformed it into a vision of benign cosmic travellers arriving in disco-baubles of sound and light. Fast facts about Name of Movie What: A whistleblower and a meteorologist race to reveal…
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Griffin Poetry Prize has reinstated the $65,000 Canadian Poetry Prize, they announced in a press statement Wednesday. This news comes…
Six Australian filmmakers are travelling the world in search of a story, each tasked with making a weekly short film for ABC iview’s Race Around The World. This is contestant Elliot Constable’s experience from his week one travels in Moldova. Tatiana’s phone buzzes on the table in front of us. “Russian strikes are coming,” she…
Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The federal government has launched a new advisory committee on preventive health care to provide guidelines on screening for things like…
Meanwhile, vertebrate paleontologist Melanie During of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam told Reuters that any persisting collagen from inside bones couldn’t be used to create skin or leather, and Thomas R. Holtz Jr., a paleontologist at the University of Maryland, said even proteins that matched flawlessly wouldn’t have the larger-scale fibre organization necessary to create the…