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Was it a plane? Was it a UFO? Bright light over Quebec captivates stargazers

[published_date] With eyes turned to the skies, stargazers taking in the Perseid meteor shower on Tuesday night witnessed something out of this world.  In a publication on Facebook, the Astrolab du parc national du Mont-Mégantic in Quebec's Eastern Townships described it as "a magnificent and luminous spiral streaking across the sky at around 10:40 p.m." Several people in the Montreal…

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‘We play for the honour of our ancestors’: Box lacrosse is here to stay at the Canada Games

[published_date] ST. JOHN'S — While the venue may have changed, box lacrosse at the Canada Games is not going anywhere. Wildfires prompted an evacuation alert in the community of Paradise and forced the relocation of the box lacrosse competition at the 2025 Games on Tuesday. That moved the action in this year's women's tournament from the Paradise Double Ice…

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Canada in ‘facility crisis’ as aging public pools face wave of major repairs or closures

[published_date] Finding the next Summer McIntosh and keeping Canadians safe in the water is getting harder as pool closures spread across the country. Municipalities and universities strapped for cash, and neglecting upkeep on aging pools, now face hefty renovation or rebuild costs — or closure. More than half of Canada's publicly-owned indoor pools are at…

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Bad cell service, with dropped calls and garble, continues to frustrate many P.E.I. residents

[published_date] "Absolutely terrible" is how Darlene Jurkowski describes cell service in her community of Chelton, just west of Borden-Carleton on the southern shore of Prince Edward Island.   "You cannot call a person without getting cut off, you sound like a robot half the time, you can't understand what they're saying," Jurkowski told CBC News.  Like many P.E.I. residents…

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Doctors are turning to AI scribes to take medical notes. Quebec wants to test it out

[published_date] Frustrated by overwhelming paperwork that eats into their time with patients, some doctors in Quebec have been turning to artificial intelligence tools to streamline the transcription of their medical notes during consultations. Now, Santé Québec, the Crown corporation that oversees the province's health-care network, is planning to launch a pilot project to look into these technologies with…

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American sprinter Kerley provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures

[published_date] U.S. Olympic sprinter Fred Kerley has been provisionally suspended for "whereabouts failures" under the sport's anti-doping rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Tuesday. Lawyers for the 30-year-old Kerley hit back in a statement posted on the athlete's account on X. "Fred Kerley has already notified the AIU that he intends to contest the allegation…

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