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    Why Canada has so many cyberattacks—and why we’re all at risk

    Cybersecurity boss Sami Khoury tells us how crime plays out in the Cyber Wild West
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    Soaring expenses pushed one Calgary guitarist to GoFundMe. He raised $25,000.

    "I’ve played festivals and won Juno awards, but somehow I found myself living in my car"
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    What comes next for Canada’s measles surge

    Immunologist Dawn Bowdish tells us why measles cases are soaring, who’s at risk and how we can still stamp it out
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    The Big Idea: Pay family doctors differently

    B.C. rolled out the Longitudinal Family Physician payment model and gained 700 new family doctors
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    My retirement project? Building affordable co-housing.

    Bureaucratic barriers make housing inconvenient and expensive to build. If you get creative, it doesn’t have to be.
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    Why Alberta isn’t ready for its population boom

    At the Edmonton migrant centre where I work, 100 people come through our doors every day. We can’t help them all.
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    The Big Idea: Neurochips will fix our brains

    I invented the world’s first brain chip. It can cure epilepsy, dementia, chronic pain and addiction—if Canada is ready to invest.
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    “I fled the war in Ukraine. Now I help other newcomers settle in Canada.”

    My daughter and I were lucky to find a host family in Ottawa. I want to pay it forward.
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    The Big Idea: Give essential workers cheap housing

    Teachers, daycare workers, firefighters and nurses keep our cities running. Too bad most essential workers can’t afford to live in them.
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    Paramedics in our Ontario city were burning out. Then the opioid crisis came to town.

    In Belleville, where I’m the chief paramedic, people were dropping like flies. Soon, the city declared a state of emergency.
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