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Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill to return for`Enola Holmes 3`
24Apr By No Comments
Entertainment, Movies

Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill to return for`Enola Holmes 3`

Netflix has officially announced the production of `Enola Holmes 3`, the latest instalment in the popular film franchise based on Nancy Springer`s book series. The streaming giant has confirmed that Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Helena Bonham Carter will reprise their roles as Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, and Eudoria Holmes, respectively.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Millie Bobby Brown (@milliebobbybrown) Millie Bobby Brown also shared the announcement with her fans, writing, "we`re in production but not without @barantini at the helm. and so we begin." Principal photography for `Enola Holmes 3` has begun in the UK, with Jack Thorne penning the screenplay and Philip ...
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Vaccine-preventable diseases on rise globally, warns UN
24Apr By No Comments
Health

Vaccine-preventable diseases on rise globally, warns UN

Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, meningitis, and yellow fever are on the rise globally amid misinformation and cuts to international aid, the United Nations and the Gavi vaccine alliance warned Wednesday. "Vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives over the past five decades," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. "Funding cuts to global health have put these hard-won gains in jeopardy." Tedros added that the increasing outbreaks around the world are "putting lives at risk and exposing countries to increased costs in treating diseases." Measles, for example, is making an "especially dangerous comeback," with cases rising every year since 2021 and reaching an estimated 10.3 million in 2023, which is a 20 percent increase since 2022. The...
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Here’s When (and How) You’ll Need to Start Repaying Your Student Loans
24Apr By No Comments
Life Style

Here’s When (and How) You’ll Need to Start Repaying Your Student Loans

The Department of Education announced Monday that the FSA will finally restart collections on defaulted student loans beginning May 5, 2025, following a five-year pause that began during the COVID-19 pandemic.This decision affects approximately 5.3 million borrowers who were in default before the pause. For these borrowers, the government can soon begin collecting repayments from tax refunds, withholding Social Security benefits, and even garnishing wages (up to 15% of disposable income). How do you know if you're already in default on your loans, or if you're at risk of defaulting soon? Here's what you need to know about the upcoming changes, and how to prepare for them.What the end of the pause means for youThis change primarily impacts borrowers who were already in default before pandem...
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Quebec not ruling out expanding religious symbol ban to daycare and college workers
23Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Quebec not ruling out expanding religious symbol ban to daycare and college workers

Quebec’s minister responsible for secularism says the government isn’t ruling out expanding its religious symbols ban to include daycare employees. Jean-François Roberge says “everything is on the table” when it comes to strengthening secularism in the province, including extending the law known as Bill 21 to include more categories of public employees.However, he said Wednesday the government will wait for the recommendations from a government-appointed committee studying the issue before making a final decision.“We’ll let the committee work,” he said. “After that, we’ll see if we move forward with daycares like in schools.”Currently, the workplace religious symbol ban applies to categories of public employees deemed to be in positions of authority, including teachers, judges and police o...
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Advance polls smashed records. What days and provinces saw the most votes? – National
23Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Advance polls smashed records. What days and provinces saw the most votes? – National

Advance poll numbers broke records, Elections Canada said this week, and newly-released numbers give further insight on the days and the provinces where those record-breaking numbers came from. Preliminary estimates released by the agency on Tuesday showed 7.3 million voters cast their ballot at advance polls during this past weekend, a 25 per cent increase from the 5.8 million votes in the 2021 federal election.According to data provided on Wednesday, the daily estimated turnout for the 2025 advance polls each surpassed the same period four years ago, with Friday and Monday seeing the biggest number of Canadians at the ballot box.A record number of voters cast their first votes on Friday, with 2,054,525 ballots cast, a big jump from the 1,401,010 cast on the first day of advance polls in ...
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Researchers use AI to decode how brain processes language during conversations
23Apr By No Comments
Health

Researchers use AI to decode how brain processes language during conversations

By combining artificial intelligence (AI) with electrical recordings of brain activity, researchers have been able to track the language exchanged during conversations and the corresponding neural activity in different brain regions, according to a new study. The team from Department of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in the US investigated how our brains process language during real-life conversations. “Specifically, we wanted to understand which brain regions become active when we`re speaking and listening, and how these patterns relate to the specific words and context of the conversation,” said lead author Jing Cai in a paper published in Nature Communications. They employed AI to take a closer look at how our brains handle the back-and-forth of real conversations. Th...
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Voting by mail? Some Canadians should return their ballot in person now – National
23Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Voting by mail? Some Canadians should return their ballot in person now – National

Elections Canada is urging Canadians who decided to vote by mail from within their riding to drop their ballot off in person if they haven’t mailed it yet to ensure their vote is counted on election day. The notice from the agency comes as the deadline to apply to vote by mail using a special ballot passed on Tuesday night.Voting by special ballot is one of the methods Canadians can use to cast their vote in the election if they don’t want to do so in person at an Elections Canada office, at advance polls or on election day. It’s also used by Canadians who won’t be in their riding for advance polls or election day, or if they live abroad.But with less than a week to go, the agency says those voting using this method from within their riding who have not yet mailed their completed ballot sh...
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Poilievre vows more power for police to end homeless ‘tent cities’ – National
23Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Poilievre vows more power for police to end homeless ‘tent cities’ – National

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 23, 2025 11:54 am Updated April 23, 2025 12:07 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would give police and judges more power to dismantle tent cities. Poilievre says a Conservative government would amend the Criminal Code to allow police to charge people when they violate the right to be safe in public spaces.He also says he would clarify the law so that police can take down illegal e...
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Dave Coulier celebrates 2 life-affirming milestones on the same day – National
23Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Entertainment, Movies

Dave Coulier celebrates 2 life-affirming milestones on the same day – National

Dave Coulier revealed that he received two bits of life-changing news on the very same day. The Full House actor, 65, said he learned he had become a grandfather on the same day he found out he was cancer-free.Coulier shared the timing of the two important moments on April 18 on How Rude, Tanneritos!, the podcast hosted by his former Full House co-stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber.The 65-year-old actor said he found out he was cancer-free following his battle with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in late March, the same day his son Luc, 34, and his wife Alex welcomed their son Chance Lee on March 27.“I got the good news the day the baby was born. So I heard the news and I was so excited, and then Luc called us and he said, ‘Hey, the baby just was born.’ And so, I mean, it was an amazing da...
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