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  The Guardian: Canada News

  

  2 days ago

  Camping Trip review – pandemic lakeside R&R becomes operatic bloodbath

  The Guardian - Phil Hoad

  This is the cinematic equivalent of the stopped clock telling the right time twice a day: a film full of stylistic overkill suddenly runs into the material that justifies it. Near the end of this otherwise unconvincing lakeside thriller from Canada’s Fuica brothers, there’s suddenly a protracted …

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  5 days ago

  Johnson & Johnson to stop making talc-based baby powder globally

  The Guardian - Mark Sweney

  Johnson & Johnson is to stop selling and making talc-based baby powder globally, two years after it ended sales in the US and Canada. The healthcare firm has faced tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers who allege its talc products, including the instantly recognisable brand of Johnson’s baby …

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  6 days ago

  Even low levels of air pollution can damage health, study finds

  The Guardian - Gary Fuller

  A study in one of the cleanest countries in the world could help governments think about future ways to manage air pollution. Abundant data from London’s infamous 1952 smog onwards tells us that breathing high concentrations of air pollution harms our health. This feeds into the 20th-century idea of …

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  6 days ago

  Toronto blackout puts top businesses in the dark and forces mall evacuation

  The Guardian - Reuters in Toronto

  A power outage in Toronto’s downtown core has left the offices of Canada’s top businesses in the dark, forced the evacuation of one of the city’s biggest shopping malls, and caused some bank branches to be locked. The power utility Hydro One said the outage, which started at about noon on Thursday, …

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  Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warns

  The Guardian - Leyland Cecco

  The mercenary spyware industry represents “one of the greatest contemporary threats to civil society, human rights and democracy”, a leading cybersecurity expert warns, as countries grapple with the unregulated spread of powerful and invasive surveillance tools. Ron Deibert, a political science …

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  A Song for Us review – folk-singing love story can’t avoid hippy nonsense

  The Guardian - Leslie Felperin

  This low-budget Canadian feature has its heart in the right place with a gentle story about folk-singing hippy lovers who part and then find each other again years later. Alas, the production values suggest the crew must have been either interns or working for beer and craft table leftovers. Maybe …