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The Word: On women one-percenters, tech neck, and Margaret Atwood
We are the one per cent. According to just-released figures from Statistics Canada, a record number of women now belong to the country’s wealthiest income bracket. As of 2012, one in five...
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The Word: On Saskatchewan’s million-dollar baby, Sephora, and Chris Hemsworth
On the front page: Million-dollar baby. The 2013 birth of Saskatchewan’s Reece Huculak is a memorable milestone for her parents — financially speaking, anyway. Mom Jennifer was just over six months...
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The Word: On Bill C-13, Tim Hortons, and giant treadmills
On the front page: Canada confidential. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien cautioned Canadian senators today on the pitfalls of the expanded policing measures afforded by bill C-13. The legislation...
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The Word: On missions to Mercury, Google, and Beyoncé
On the front page: Next stop: Mercury. We knew the folks at the European Space Agency were ambitious, but this is ridiculous. Just a few days after its Rosetta probe landed on a comet billions of...
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The Word: On Black Friday, Ikea, and boss-lady breakfasts
On the front page: Bargain blitz. What was once just a way to shop away your American Thanksgiving bloat may now surpass Boxing Day as Canada’s biggest shopping day. BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic...
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The Word: On Ghomeshi, yogurt, and airport anger
Ari Mintz/The New York Times/Redux On the front page: Jian Ghomeshi drops CBC lawsuit. In the latest #Ghomeshigate news, the erstwhile host of Q has withdrawn the $55-million lawsuit he filed against...
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The Word: On Jian Ghomeshi, seizures, and cloned mammoths
Photo, Sarjoun Faour. On the front page: Ghomeshi charged. Wednesday marked a watershed moment for the case against Jian Ghomeshi: Around 10:30 a.m., Toronto Police Services published a news release...
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The Word: On the Supreme Court, Jodi Picoult, and Tofurky
On the front page: Suzanne Côté for Supreme Court justice. One of Canada’s most experienced civil litigators has been appointed to the Supreme Court, marking the first time a female Justice has been...
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The Word: On in vitro fertilization, sriracha beer, and the death of television
Getty On the front page: Fertility funding. Legislation introduced by Quebec’s Health Minister Gaétan Barrette will de-fund provincial coverage of in vitro fertilization—if it passes. Bill 20 was...
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The Word: On homicide, exercise, and Rob Ford
On the front page: Crime rates. A recent Statistics Canada report states that, in 2013, Canada’s homicide rate hit its lowest point since 1966. A total of 505 homicides were reported last year, which...
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The Word: On the flu, Twitter trolls, and Tilda Swinton
On health: Masking the problem. Today is the last day for B.C. health workers to get the flu shot (or wear a mask) in order to be permitted to work with patients. Those opposed to the mandatory policy...
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The Word: On Peter MacKay, baby names, and cumbercupcakes
On the front page: Minister’s mistake. Just three days before the 25th anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre, comments by Justice Minister Peter MacKay have caused an uproar on Parliament Hill...
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The Word: On Eric Garner, kalettes, and WhatsApp
On the front page: Justice for Eric Garner. Mostly peaceful protests erupted across New York City last night after a grand jury failed to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of...
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The Word: On Orion, the Grammys, and business tiaras
On the front page: Mars voyager. NASA’s new Orion spacecraft took a short, flawless field trip into space today, laying the groundwork for the little-shuttle-that-could to eventually make its way to...
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The Word: On Rolling Stone, real-estate drones, and Kate Middleton
On the front page: Rolling Stone. New developments have surfaced with respect to Rolling Stone’s coverage of an alleged gang rape that occurred at the University of Virginia in 2012. Published Nov....
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The Word: On Rinelle Harper, Bumble, and celebrity aliases
On the front page: Rinelle Harper. The 16-year-old First Nations teen (who was brutally beaten and abandoned near the Assiniboine River last month) has voiced support for a national inquiry into...
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The Word: On Malala Yousafzai, ketamine, and the SAG awards
On the front page: Malala’s day. On Wednesday, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history, accepting the honour in Oslo, along with co-recipient Kailash Satyarthi—an...
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The Word: On food waste, IUDs, and J.Crew
On the front page: $31 billion. That’s the estimated cost of how much food Canadians waste every year according to consulting firm Value Chain Management International. That figure also doesn’t...
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The Word: On the Pan Am Games, email stress, and Keira Knightley
On the front page: Expensive taste. Wine, parking tickets, and dress shirts are just a few of the items written off by the organizers of next summer’s Pan Am Games. In a 5,000 page document released...
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The Word: On Sydney, Prince George, and Miss World
On the front page: Sydney shuts down. A 16-hour hostage situation in Sydney’s Lindt Café ended in the deaths of two civilians and a lone gunman, police said Tuesday (Australian time). The city’s...
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