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Photo by Howard Campbell Mosaiculture in the gardens at Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens, Ontario, Canada
December 14, 2025

This week’s Shutterbugs

Amelia McKnight, the now-grade 12 Old Harbour High student who placed ninth regionally in the family and resource management CSEC exam.
December 14, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Shy student becomes regional standout

Amelia McKnight has achieved regional and national success in a subject she admits her family had neither the skills nor resources to fully practise: budgeting. Her ninth-place regional finish in…
December 14, 2025

Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in shared task

When two people work on a shared task, they process information alike, a new study revealed. Humans rely on collaboration for everything from raising food to raising children. But, to cooperate…
Shanice Thompson, a third-year communications, arts, and technology student at the University of Technology, attended a casting call for SAINT International in 2023 and impressed the model agency’s founder, Deiwght Peters.
December 14, 2025 by Omar Tomlinson

Shanice Thompson ready to set her own course in fashion

While the high-fashion market remains a niche space for plus-sized models, Shanice Thompson is practical-minded. “I’m hyper aware of all the sentiments that are around full-sized models, the positive…
Tracy Herrmann says the four tattoos getting lasered are part of her past and that’s where she wants them to stay.
December 14, 2025

If you want that tattoo erased, it’s going to hurt and it’s going to cost you

DETROIT (AP): Colin Farrell’s had it done – many times. So have Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox. Heck, even Bart Simpson did. Whether it’s Marilyn Monroe’s face, Billy Bob Thornton’s name, a sultry rose…
A ‘PEACE ON EARTH?’ sign is posted on the top of a nativity display, which features an ICE WAS HERE sign in the spot for the baby Jesus, outside St Susanna Church in Dedham, Mass on December 9.
December 14, 2025

Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP): One baby Jesus lays in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston,…
A display of Apple iPhone 16s in an Apple Store in Pittsburgh.
December 14, 2025

Appeals court backs contempt finding against Apple

A federal appeals court on Thursday backed a ruling that held Apple in civil contempt for brazenly defying an order designed to open its iPhone app store to other payment systems besides its own, but…
December 14, 2025

US relieves airlines of covering passenger expenses amid aircraft recalls

The United States Department of Transportation has issued new guidance telling airlines they do not have to cover passenger expenses, such as meals or hotel stays, when flight cancellations or long…
The Federal Reserve building seen on May 4, 2021 in Washington, USA.
December 14, 2025

Fed unanimously approves reappointment of regional bank presidents

The United States Federal Reserve’s governing board unanimously approved the reappointment of nearly all of the Fed’s 12 regional bank presidents, a group that has come under scrutiny by the Trump…