A new survey of 23andMe’s Health + Ancestry customers conducted by M/A/R/C® Research found that more than three-quarters reported that after receiving their personalized genetic reports they made at least one positive change in their health behavior. Changes included eating healthier, getting more sleep, and exercising more, among others. “We’re encouraged by these preliminary findings, […]
A day after an emotional Greta Thunberg lashed out at world leaders for their inaction on climate change, Canada’s federal party candidates couldn’t help but capitalize on the climate activist’s emotional address to sell their own strategies. Thunberg created quite a buzz following her appearance on Monday at the UN climate summit in New York. The 16-year-old Swede admonished heads of state, […]
After four years in power, the Liberal government still hasn’t delivered on a promise of a detailed plan for developing Canada’s North in a time of climate change and economic and military threats from circumpolar powers. “There is so much work that needs to be done,” Iqaluit Mayor Madeleine Redfern told CBC News. “For decades, […]
Don’t let me hear your moan about VAR ever again. It is there for a reason. It works when the referee cannot be certain. It was the correct turning point that allowed Team USA to be crowned women’s World Cup champions. The breakthrough took an hour, but the game itself was never in doubt. Had […]
If you’re raising monarch caterpillars in the hope that when they become butterflies, they’ll fly to Mexico and help replenish endangered populations, a new study offers some warnings and some advice. Monarch butterflies raised indoors as caterpillars don’t head south towards Mexico when they emerge from their chrysalises, researchers at the University of Chicago have found. “It’s easy […]
Grade 10 student Solomon Harper is slick with sweat, sprinkled in dust and roughly 1,500 kilometres from home. He’s surrounded by farm animals, the loud and anxious voices of more than 100 teens both older and younger than he is — and he couldn’t be happier. “The performance today is really exciting, but … first-year [attendees are] usually nervous,” Harper, […]
New research suggests men and women are on the same wavelength when it comes to problems in their sex lives. The study from the University of Waterloo asked more than 100 heterosexual couples in long-term relationships about issues that are most likely to surface in the bedroom. It found that men and women identified the […]
Last week, a few 23andMe customers came together for a special brunch and a chance to celebrate their first Mother’s Day with the birth moms they discovered, with the help of 23andMe. From left, Amanda, her birth mother Julia, her mother Janice, and her biological sister Laura. For Amanda, the event was sweeter because she […]
The Endgame is nigh. If you, like me, have watched 22 Marvel movies to get to this point and you, like me, are now so very tired, then you probably also have something in common with the actors who have played the main Avengers cast, lo these many years. It’s clear the original six Avengers […]
If Joe Biden watched Saturday Night Live this weekend, he probably clutched a throw cushion to his bare chest and thought, “I don’t need this crap.” In the cold open, which begins inside “Biden 2020 Campaign Headquarters,” the former VP is lampooned as a handsy goofball who is clueless about personal space. So two skittish […]