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“Fake News” Is Hard For Kids To Spot

Joyce Grant — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 01:50:59 +0000

There is a lot of "fake news" on the Internet. A new study shows that many young people in the United States have a hard time telling "real" from "fake" news.
Fake news is exactly what it sounds like. It's an article that may look just like any other news article--except that it's not true. Unfortunately, many people can't tell the difference.

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Schools Divided Over Cellphones In Classrooms

Monique Conrod — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 01:24:12 +0000

A fight between two high school students in Nova Scotia last month has underlined some of the concerns parents and teachers have about cellphones in schools.

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Scientists One Step Closer To Harnessing Energy From “Nuclear Fusion”

Monique Conrod — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:53:47 +0000

A group of scientists in the United States has come one step closer to harnessing a source of energy that would be clean, safe and nearly unlimited.

The scientists, who work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, are trying to find a way to generate energy efficiently using a process called nuclear fusion.

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Crimea Has The World’s Attention

Nancy Miller — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 04:41:41 +0000

Some events are happening in Crimea and the world is taking notice of them.

The small peninsula of Crimea, attached to the country of Ukraine, sits in the middle of Europe. Crimea is about half the size of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia; about two million people live there.

Crimea is at the centre of a major political battle between Russia and Ukraine. The rest of world is watching that conflict closely.

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Stephen Hawking Says “Black Holes” May Actually Be “Grey”

Joyce Grant — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 02:25:32 +0000

Stephen Hawking is a physicist, an expert in the science called physics, and generally regarded as a genius for his work in helping us better understand the universe.

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How Would You Change The Senate?

Jeffrey Simpson — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 01:20:17 +0000

What would you do with the Canadian Senate? Change the way Senators are chosen? Get rid of it? Keep it as-is?

The Senate is a legislative body of the government that has almost the same powers as the House of Commons.

However, members to the House of Commons are elected; the prime minister appoints Senators.

And these tend to be people from his own party, who have done good things for his party.

Once they are in the Senate, they almost always vote as their party does in the House of Commons.

The Senate was started this way in 1867 when Canada was formed.

It was supposed to be a place for "sober second thought"—thinking carefully about the laws sent to it by the House of Commons and sometimes improving them.

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