Beyond Local

TORONTO — More than one hundred Canadian film and TV workers gathered under cloudy skies and sporadic showers to picket in support of striking Hollywood writers Wednesday, warning that many of the labour issues upending U.S. sets plague Canadian ones, too.

Paul Nelson is used to doing battle with an invasive fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila , a pest that one year ruined more than half the berries on the Minnesota farm he and his team run.

‘It’s an absolutely astonishing experience,’ says 23-year paraglider Bill Nikolai

Hosted by Chief Jacob Bearspaw School, the event was attended by dancers and members from neighbouring First Nations, as well as students and staff from area schools.

Leading up to Great Neighbours Week, Cochranites are encouraged to nominate a special community member who has helped make their neighbourhood a better place to live.

Canada’s agricultural land is under increasing pressure to produce more food as demand grows domestically and internationally, while the industry grapples with limited resources and environmental constraints, a new report found.

LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon's voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The proliferation of hate and lies on digital platforms and the threat that artificial intelligence can become an uncontrolled “monster” demand coordinated global action — starting with a code of conduct for governments, tech companies and advertisers that promotes truth and protects human rights, the U.N. chief said Monday.

Bryan Adams has added more Canadian dates to his So Happy It Hurts tour. The “Run To You” rocker announced shows across British Columbia and Alberta that will follow a string of summer dates in the United States.

SAINT-LOUIS-DU-SUD, Haiti (AP) — Mylouise Veillard was 10 when her mother dropped her off at an orphanage in southern Haiti and promised her a better life. For three years, Mylouise slept on a concrete floor.