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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
An international team of scientists has announced a newly found species of poison dart frog deep in the Amazon, set apart by its coppery limbs and blue stripes that its discoverers describe as both enchanting and otherworldly. Found along the banks of the Juruá River in western Brazil, the species joins the Ranitomeya genus of dart frogs, known to be scattered in small populations across the foothills of the Andes Mountains and Amazon rainforest.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
As a global trade war marches on, economic uncertainty has sparked fears of a recession on the horizon, bringing layoffs, bankruptcies and deepening affordability challenges with it. But for as long as there have been hard times, there have been a mountain of strategies to try and see them coming. And while economists routinely track hard data like GDP, unemployment and inflation, analysis can fold in all kinds of indicators -- including some that seem obscure, or strangely specific.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Construction industry representative Dave Wilkes says the Liberals’ housing plan brings much-needed relief on development charges, but that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to get the federal government into the homebuilding business is a bridge too far. “We don’t think a public builder is necessary,” he told CTV Your Morning in an interview Friday.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Newly released aerial footage shows the rescue of a trio of boaters after their vessel capsized along the Australian coast. Published Sunday by Storyful, the video from Victoria state police shows the men treading water and clinging precariously to the hull of their overturned boat off the coast near Barwon Heads, southwest of Melbourne.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
The mystery of an 18th-century Austrian mummy might finally be solved, according to a new study unravelling the “little-known” methods that have preserved his remains for more than 200 years.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Organic Traditions jumbo pumpkin seeds have been recalled nationwide over risks of salmonella contamination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says. Published Wednesday, the notice says affected products include bags weighing 227 grams (UPC: 6 27733 00175 5, Codes L250212160 and L250319170) and 454 g (UPC: 6 27733 00180 9, code L250319171).
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
An Ohio traffic stop took a turn for the strange this week when a pet raccoon was found playing with an alleged “meth pipe” inside the vehicle, police say. In body-camera footage published by Storyful on Wednesday, Springfield, Ohio, police officer Austin Branham is seen conducting a search of a vehicle when he suddenly breaks into breathless laughter. Inside the car, a live raccoon is sitting calmly by the steering wheel, fussing with an object in its hands.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Days after an estimated 19.6 million Canadians cast their ballots, the results of this year’s federal election are coming in, bringing with them a new political landscape. Here are some of the takeaways from Canada’s 45th trip to the polls:Big takes from smallThis year’s election saw gains for Canada’s two largest federal parties and losses for everyone else.
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1 month ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
OpenAI has rolled back ChatGPT to an earlier version of the AI model after a new update displayed “overly supportive but disingenuous” behaviour, a quirk the tech firm describes as “uncomfortable” and “unsettling” for users. “In last week’s GPT‑4o update, we made adjustments aimed at improving the model’s default personality to make it feel more intuitive and effective across a variety of tasks,” reads an announcement on OpenAI’s website.
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2 months ago | 
ctvnews.ca | Charlie Buckley
Canadian workers are among the most stressed in the world, even if most say they’re thriving, a new Gallup survey has found. Published Wednesday, this year’s State of the Global Workplace Report asked more than 225,000 workers around the world about their experiences on the job and in their lives generally. Among them, Canadian respondents gave higher-than-average ratings for their lives on the whole, but also some of the highest rates of daily stress.
