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Canada Election 2025: Edmonton Southeast – National
23Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Canada Election 2025: Edmonton Southeast – National

Edmonton Southeast is a federal riding located in Alberta and is a new riding in the 2025 Canadian election.Voters will decide who will represent Edmonton Southeast in Alberta during the upcoming Canadian election on April 28, 2025.Visit this page on election night for a complete breakdown of up to the minute results. Candidates Liberal: Amarjeet Sohi Conservative: Jagsharan Singh Mahal NDP: Harpreet Grewal Communist: Corinne Benson Independent: Gurleen Chandi People's Party: Martin Schuetza Source link
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Canada election 2025: Airdrie—Cochrane – National
23Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Canada election 2025: Airdrie—Cochrane – National

Airdrie—Cochrane is a federal riding located in Alberta and is a new riding in the 2025 Canadian election.This riding consists of the city of Airdrie and the town of Cochrane as well as some surrounding areas.Voters will decide who will represent Airdrie—Cochrane in Alberta during the upcoming Canadian election on April 28, 2025.Visit this page on election night for a complete breakdown of up to the minute results. Candidates Conservative: Blake Richards (Incumbent) Liberal: Sean Secord NDP: Sarah Zagoda CHP Canada: Christopher Bell Libertarian: David Sabine ...
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Harper Is an Offline Alternative to Grammarly for Obsidian
23Apr By No Comments
Life Style

Harper Is an Offline Alternative to Grammarly for Obsidian

Obsidian is my favorite productivity tool. I use it for all of my writing, as a journaling app, and to replace multiple productivity tools. There's a big downside, though: no grammar checking tool.Grammarly is the best known grammar checking tool, but there's no way to add it to Obsidian. I also wouldn't enable it even if I could. Grammarly processes text on their own servers, which is a potential privacy issue and also generally inefficient. This is why I've come to love Harper, a free and open-source alternative that runs entirely on your device and can be added to Obsidian in a couple of clicks.Harper isn't just an Obsidian tool—there are also plugins for WordPress, Visual Studio Code, or any developer tool that supports the Language Server Protocol. If you'd like to see Harper in actio...
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Pinworm medication may treat aggressive skin cancer: Researchers
22Apr By No Comments
Health

Pinworm medication may treat aggressive skin cancer: Researchers

A team of US scientists has found that a common pinworm medication may stop and reverse cancer growth in Merkel cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.  The research led by University of Arizona Cancer Center and published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that in laboratory models of Merkel cell carcinoma, pyrvinium pamoate inhibited cancer cell growth and reversed the cancer’s neuroendocrine features. In mouse models of Merkel cell carcinoma, pyrvinium pamoate reduced tumour growth. Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare but fast-growing neuroendocrine cancer that is three to five times more likely than melanoma to be deadly. Response rates to current therapies – surgery, radiation and immunotherapy – are limited, resulting in a need for effective and broadly applica...
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Bill Owens, head of ‘60 Minutes,’ quits show, citing loss of independence – National
22Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Entertainment, Movies

Bill Owens, head of ‘60 Minutes,’ quits show, citing loss of independence – National

Bill Owens, the top producer at 60 Minutes, announced Tuesday that he’s quitting the show because he’s not able to run the program like he has in the past. In a memo to staff members, Owens wrote that is he no longer able to make independent decisions based on what is right for the audience of the investigative news program.“Having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time and with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward,” he wrote in the memo, as first reported by The New York Times.Bill Owens’s full memo to “60 Minutes” staff: pic.twitter.com/tHQvAajVRm— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) April 22, 2025 Story continues below advertisement Owens’ resignation comes as CBS parent company Paramount Global ...
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ANALYSIS: Pierre Poilievre would axe one of Parliament’s primary purposes – National
22Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

ANALYSIS: Pierre Poilievre would axe one of Parliament’s primary purposes – National

Tucked away amid a host pledges in the Conservative platform is a promise to axe one of Parliament’s primary purposes. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced Tuesday that under his government a referendum, not politicians, would decide if Canada needed to raise taxes. Poilievre would “ban” any new taxes or tax increases unless the Canadian public votes for them.The platform commitment is in keeping with Poilievre’s overall theme of tax relief for Canadians, requiring any new spending to be found through savings in other programs, and generally shrinking the size and cost of the federal government.We can all probably guess the answer if the Canadian public were asked “do you want higher taxes,” and that answer can’t be published by a family-friendly news outlet.But leaving aside suc...
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More doctors, easier licensing: Health ideas from Canada’s parties you may have missed – National
22Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

More doctors, easier licensing: Health ideas from Canada’s parties you may have missed – National

While health care hasn’t taken centre stage in the 2025 federal election, candidates recently brought it back into focus, unveiling platforms that spotlight key health issues — from the need for more family doctors to better access to mental health support. The Liberal platform, released by the party’s leader, Mark Carney, on Saturday, touches on health care with proposals to hire more physicians and create a national licensing system so doctors and nurses can move easily from province to province to address shortages.Meanwhile, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh released his party’s platform on Saturday. The platform includes several health care commitments, such as promising that every Canadian can access primary care and a family doctor by 2030.Then, on Tuesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poiliev...
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Advance voting over last 4 days shatters records, Elections Canada says
22Apr By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Advance voting over last 4 days shatters records, Elections Canada says

The number of people who took advantage of advance voting in the federal election has shattered records, Elections Canada reported Tuesday. Preliminary figures released by the agency that organizes federal elections show an estimated 7.3 million ballots were cast over the four-day advance polling period, which overlapped with the Easter holiday weekend and ended Monday.The numbers mark a 25 per cent increase from the 5.85 million advance votes cast in the 2021 election, according to Elections Canada.“A record number of Canadians voted during advance polls!” Elections Canada said in a social media post announcing the preliminary numbers.Final numbers are expected to be reported late Tuesday, including breakdowns by province and territory, a spokesperson told Global News.The news release ann...
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