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Canada’s federal New Democratic Party, often known simply as the NDP, is the official opposition party in the federal government. Party Leader Thomas Mulcair announced this week one of the policies his party would initiate if elected as the government in the next general election.
Mulcair said was that his party would greatly expand child daycare across the country and limit costs to parents to $15 per day. Daycare is a provincial jurisdiction and Mulcair said he would work with provinces on the programme and transfer funds to them to create daycare spots for one million children.
As can be expected, the ruling Conservative Party government had criticism, but in Wojtek’s report, he notes that a think-tank, the Broadbent Institute, discovered elements of the US Republican party talking points within that criticism.
What scientists have known for some time is that human synthetic estrogen in trace amounts can feminize male fish.
What is also known is that trace amounts of that synthetic estrogen are coming from women who take the birth control pill. Traces of the hormone ends up untreated by current technology in waste water sewage treatment plants and enters the environment.
Now a Canadian research team has taken that knowledge and gone much further. The team used one of Canada’s experimental lakes to test the results of trace amounts of the synthetic human estrogen on an ecosystem.
What they found was surprising. An almost immediate reaction in minnows in the lake, and much wider and obvious ripple effects in the lake ecosystem food web.
Marc spoke to Karen Kidd, a biologist at the University of New Brunswick who led the study.
It was supposed to be a more secure way to share photos online.
Snapchat would show pictures posted only for a few moments then they would dissappear and not be saved on a server.
Often, because of the supposed security, teens and others would post racy photos of themselves or others.
But, like anything on the internet, it seems nothing is truly safe. People can of course simply take another photo of the screen, or use other third party apps, like Snapsave to sav photos.
Tom Keenan, author of a book called Technocreep and aprofessor at the University of Calgary, says you shouldn’t eer believe guarantees that nothing will be saved, or that you will remain anonymous, He also says if it’s on the internet, somebody can get it.
Tom Keenan spoke to Lynn about leaked photos that were supposed to disappear from SnapChat.
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