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Google’s smart city proposal may be hazardous to Toronto’s health
The global race to roll out new fifth-generation wireless infrastructure, aka 5G, is well underway. 5G’s muscular data-transmission capabilities will enable driverless cars, the Internet... -
Slaves to chocolate: the child labour in your Hershey’s bar
If consumers knew what goes into making chocolate, they wouldn’t buy it. So says Adam Tanel, a lawyer with Toronto-based law firm Koskie Minsky LLP.... -
Ford government’s Greenbelt development plans mean more food insecurity for Ontario
Another unusually wet fall is being blamed for the vomitoxin that devastated millions of hectares and a quarter of Ontario’s corn harvest this season. The... -
Crop dust-up: Is Canada exporting tainted wheat?
Canada should know better than to get between Italians and their pasta. Since Italy only grows 60 per cent of the wheat it needs, it... -
Are Ontario’s nuclear emergency plans dead in the water?
Fukushima. It’s the f-word higher ups at Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the province’s electricity provider and nuclear operator, don’t want to hear. In 2011, 150,000... -
What the frack? Why Trump and enviro activists are on the same side of this issue in Canada’s NAFTA fight with the U.S.
Activists’ calls for an end to protections for foreign investors under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have been falling on deaf ears for... -
Montana Jones expected to battle coyotes on her farm not the government
HASTINGS, Ontario Montana Jones leads me up a broad hill rising behind her farmhouse to escape the smoke from the shed where her son Fox... -
Breaking bad bread: some yoga mat with that slice you’re eating?
Grain, water, salt, sourdough starter and 18 to 48 hours are all Grant MacPherson needs to make the artisanal loaves he sells at Prairie Boy... -
Breaking bad bread: some yoga mat with that slice you’re eating?
Grain, water, salt, sourdough starter and 18 to 48 hours are all Grant MacPherson needs to make the artisanal loaves he sells at Prairie Boy... -
Public health whistle-blower Shiv Chopra isn’t done talking about rBGH
Shiv Chopra isn't done fighting. As Canada looks set to open its borders under the not-yet-ratified Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, Chopra is back in... -
Is Franken-salmon safe to eat?
It's called the AquAdvantage salmon, and if Maynard, Massachusetts-based biotech firm AquaBounty gets its way, the world's first genetically modified food animal will soon be... -
Toxic concerns put brakes on nearby nuclear waste burial site
It’s strange that out of a possible million square kilometres of available land, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) pinpointed a tiny patch virtually on the shore...