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Yukon says hell no, never again to seasonal time change

Seasonal time change, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! So says Yukon after the Canadian territory says it will exist in permanent Daylight Saving Time. Yukonians will move their clocks an hour forward this weekend. And then… never move them back again. The rest of the country will rewind

Eight-year-old wins $200 cannabis prize pack at hockey tournament

Every so often a story so Canadian comes up that it borders on parody. This is one of those times. Rest assured you are NOT reading The Beaverton. Over the weekend, an eight-year-old boy won $200 worth of marijuana goods in a raffle at a youth hockey tournament in B.C. According

Scotland will become the first country to offer free pads and tampons

Scotland is taking a stand against “period poverty.” Last week, the country’s parliament approved a bill that will make pads and tampons free. The vote passed 112-0 – a resounding aye. The legislation still needs to be signed into law, which lawmakers consider a given. Currently, students can already get free sanitary

When climate change ends the world, we can blame the Twitter bots

We’ve all been confronted by bots. Not the cool ones that can do parkour and will make you economically redundant, but the messaging type you find on Twitter. Most of the time, the interactions are harmless. Co-opting social movements to drop teatox discount codes, things of that nature. But there

Raising a child? These are the best countries to do it

Raising children is tough. Magnifying the challenge are a host of factors ranging from climate change to ecological degradation, conflict, inequality, and aggressive capitalism. So argues an extensive new report published by the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet. The report, ominously titled ‘A future for the world’s children?’, evaluates countries based