Unpublished Newswire

Cards on the table: I’m a champion of healthy eating, and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have never been my thing. My instincts and long-held beliefs make it easy to accept the idea of UPFs as a public health menace. And there have been plenty of stats and headlines to feed that bias. A 2024 review of available research identified thirty-two studies linking UPFs to a higher risk of health conditions, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. More recent research found a dose response between UPFs and mortality (the more you eat, the more likely you will die early). The study...

An Ontario judge weighed the “immigration consequences” for a former international student who spied on his female housemates through a peep hole as they used the bathroom and made video recordings of four of them “in various stages of undress” over a period of six months. The Ontario Court of Justice heard Aswin V. Sajeevan, an Indian citizen here on a student visa, lived with 11 other people at a home in Barrie. The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to four counts of voyeurism, which the judge considered a mitigating factor in his case. “I accept, and have considered, that there may be...