Voices: Plastic bag ban

I have been wondering what the general public feels about banning plastic and here's an interesting article that brings up many different points. "I'm not sure if I support a plastic bag ban. I use all the bags I get my groceries for garbage or other such uses, saving me from...

There's life in record stores yet

"There are no more good new-music stores in Toronto," Myers laments. "This is no longer a record town. We never had as many titles available as the big stores in New York or Chicago, but Sam's was a music powerhouse in Toronto, and this city had so much great music at...

Genetically modified yeast can sniff out explosives

What do you get if you cross a rat, a jellyfish and brewer's yeast? Happily, the answer is not the latest genetically modified food, but a low-cost explosives detector. Danny Dhanasekaran, a...