Similar laws exist in about 20 US states which have identified hair discrimination as an expression of racism
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‘Just staggering’: UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
‘If food waste was a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet behind the US and China’
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Almost one child in six is cyberbullied
Parents’ socioeconomic status made little difference except in Canada, where lower income youth were more likely to experience cyberbullying
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Princess Kate’s diagnosis highlights cancer trend in young adults
Researchers have been increasingly sounding the alarm that people under 50 are being diagnosed with cancer — and no one knows why
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Research highlights Australia’s carbon credit ‘catastrophe’
Land in Australia’s Outback was earmarked to grow forests. But researchers found almost 80 per cent of the forests are stagnant or shrinking
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Transport of the future? Europe’s longest hyperloop centre opens
Europe’s longest tunnel for testing hyperloop technology opens Wednesday. Operators expect it will help to popularize the high-speed trains
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Cocoa cracks record above $10,000 before Easter
Cocoa’s surge in price was brought on by bad crop season in Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest producers of the commodity
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Canadian farmers ‘not satisfied’ with EU trade deal
Canadian farmers say they are bewildered by the French Senate’s rejection of the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada
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Abuse victims demonstrate in Quebec against Catholic Church
More than 140 people filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Quebec in 2022, claiming to have been sexually abused by Catholic staff
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Plunging birth rate push Japanese diaper maker into adult market
Japanese diaper manufacturer will wrap up domestic output of infant diapers after a 300 million drop in sales due to the low birth rate