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Lecanemab is the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease to reach Canada in 20 years, and Health Canada’s recent authorization of the disease-modifying drug has understandably triggered hope and excitement.But for some researchers and clinicians who treat the disease, the development also represents a complicated story – one where enthusiasm for a new and desperately needed drug is tempered by sobering realities around its efficacy, accessibility and impact on an already strained health care system.
October 28, 2025 - 07:00 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
Game 3 will go down as the marathon game at the 2025 World Series, with Freddie Freeman’s walkoff homer in the 18th inning giving the L.A. Dodgers a 6-5 victory and 2-1 edge on the Toronto Blue Jays.
October 28, 2025 - 06:44 | | The Globe and Mail
Patience is a virtue but it didn't pay off for the Toronto Blue Jays fans who stuck it out until almost 3 a.m. at Rogers Centre for a watch party.
October 28, 2025 - 06:37 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
In 2023, a new meme began spreading among authors on Instagram. A screenshot of a search box holds an author’s name; below it, there’s a list of book titles. The author is relaying that each displayed title has been used without permission by a tech company to teach a large language model—or LLM—to speak and think. The captions contain expletives, or paragraphs about corporate greed, or AI’s exorbitant water use.
The first wave of these posts came in September of that year. The Atlantic scrutinized an AI training data set called Books3, composed of “large, unlabeled blocks of text” and...
October 28, 2025 - 06:31 | Thea Lim | Walrus
Someday, somebody, somewhere will likely have a quantum computer capable of cracking the fragile codes that underpin every piece of data we exchange over the internet. We don’t know when. It could be ten years. Maybe sooner. But the experts overwhelmingly agree: the day we flick the quantum switch (Q-Day, as it’s colloquially known) is coming. And this version of the world—the emails exchanged, the secrets we’ve told over fibre optics, the credit card purchases and digitalized lab test results, the encryptions protecting the carefully contained order that defines our digital lives—could...
October 28, 2025 - 06:30 | Andrew Seale | Walrus
#@$&!—Hägar the Horrible
They’re not done following you,
these childish angers, like stormy
weather pushing in, memories
hovering near the edge of the panel,
peripheral to the eye.
Sharp cornered, nonsensical,
yet fully understood, where you go
they follow, intersecting
with the comical ires of others,
jangling, crashing, onomatopoetic
even though they employ
exactly zero letters. Hieroglyphic,
they convey feelings kids
shouldn’t have to have words for.
Frustration, despair, futility,
disappointment, resignation,
dread at the expectation you must
pound at dollars and exclaim!
In a...
October 28, 2025 - 06:29 | George Murray | Walrus
