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Program to attract tech workers from the U.S. hits capacity one day after opening (www.cbc.ca)

Program to attract tech workers from the U.S. hits capacity one day after opening::A government program meant to attract highly skilled tech workers from the U.S. closed for applications the day after it launched when it hit its maximum number of applicants.

Police confirm search warrant in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing (www.cbc.ca)

For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight (www.cbc.ca)

Ukraine has recently dropped the conscription age from 27 to 25, increased fines for draft dodgers to half the average monthly wage and ordered embassies to stop renewing passports for Ukrainian men living abroad. All of this is part of an effort to get them to return home — and bolster the military’s ranks as the war enters...

Rooster in the mirror: these birds may be smarter than we thought (www.cbc.ca)

TL;DR: New method of the mirror test shows self awareness in roosters. General suggestion that the mirror tests that have done in the past may have been misleading/not getting the right picture

TIL that science does still not fully understand how cycling works (www.cbc.ca)

Elon Musk's X, Australia government clash over order to take down church stabbing video (www.cbc.ca)

It's total solar eclipse day and Quebec has won the weather lottery (www.cbc.ca)

Men charged with smuggling Indian family who died near Canada-U.S. border plead not guilty (www.cbc.ca)

A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling....

Canadian officials still haven't seen intelligence linking UN's Gaza aid agency with Hamas (www.cbc.ca)

U.S. strikes targets in Iraq and Syria as retaliation for fatal drone attack in Jordan, officials say (www.cbc.ca)

UPDATED -- 5 former Canadian world junior hockey players now face sexual assault charges (www.cbc.ca)

UPDATED – NHL players Michael McLeod of the New Jersey Devils and Dillion Dubé of the Calgary Flames have been charged with sexual assault related to an alleged group incident in 2018 in London, Ont., when they were members of Canada’s World Junior hockey team....

'No one looks at me': 12-year-old amputee in Gaza on what the war cost him (www.cbc.ca)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/13712503...

Israel's Gaza bombing campaign is the most destructive of this century, analysts say (www.cbc.ca)

'Chilling effect': People expressing pro-Palestinian views censured, suspended from work and school (www.cbc.ca)

Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow still fears Beijing's reach despite living in Canada (www.cbc.ca)

Winnipeg officer shoots man dead after being pinned by vehicle during traffic stop, police say (www.cbc.ca)

India resumes electronic visa services for Canadians (www.cbc.ca)

Israel says troops conducting 'targeted operation' against Hamas in Gaza's largest hospital (www.cbc.ca)

The Israeli military said it was carrying out an operation against Hamas at the Gaza Strip's Al-Shifa Hospital on Wednesday and urged all members of the militant group in the hospital to surrender.

Doug Ford government paying for-profit clinic more than hospitals for OHIP-covered surgeries, documents show (www.cbc.ca)

The documents show provincial agency Ontario Health contracted Don Mills Surgical Unit Ltd. at the following per-surgery funding rates in each of the three fiscal years starting from 2020-21:...

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