Writers and actors are striking in America for two main reasons, and these strikes are affecting Canada’s film industry, too
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Canadian lake marks new era
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Crawford Lake has been chosen to mark the start of Earth’s newest epoch, the Anthropocene
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Canadian judge says thumbs-up emoji can sign contract
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A Saskatchewan farmer must pay $82,000 after sending a ‘thumbs up’ in response to an order for flax
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Meet the world’s first commercially available electric tractor
Science and Tech
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It is called the Monarch MK-V
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Do octopuses dream? Scientists believe they do!
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Recent research points to changes in the bodies and brain activity of sleeping octopuses, suggesting that they have a REM, or dream, state