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Facebook bans groups that represent QAnon conspiracy theories

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Facebook said Tuesday it will it will remove pages, groups and Instagram accounts if they represent QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that paints U.S. President Donald Trump as a secret warrior.

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This ecologist was told she could keep her natural garden. Here’s why she’s fighting city hall anyway

Professor of ecology and urban planning Nina-Marie Lister says her natural garden is carefully curated and host to an abundance of species.

An ecology and urban planning professor is challenging Toronto’s long grass and weed bylaw, even though the city gave her an exemption this summer to save her natural garden full of tall shrubs and trees, as well as butterflies and chipmunks.

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Nobel chemistry prize awarded to 2 scientists for developing CRISPR gene editing tool

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French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a way of editing genes likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one day curing inherited diseases.

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Liberals’ 2021 single-use plastic ban includes grocery bags, takeout containers

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The end is coming for plastic grocery bags, straws and cutlery after the federal government announced today which single-use plastics will be covered by a national ban coming into effect next year.

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Ban on single-use plastic won’t trash Alberta’s recycling hub plans, Ottawa insists

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Ottawa’s ban on certain single-use plastics will support, not sideswipe, Alberta’s plan to establish itself as a continental plastics recycling hub, says the federal environment minister.

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