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The mind-boggling Toronto lab growing tiny human hearts

Milica Radisic’s team is creating little kidneys, mini brains and beating hearts that could speed up life-saving drug testing

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Jammed phone lines. Burned-out dispatchers. Can AI ease a strained 911 system?

One Canadian startup says it can speed up response times and help save lives

By Katherine Laidlaw
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The staggering ambition behind the world’s biggest carbon capture plan

Inside the complex Canadian effort to plunge 40 million tonnes of CO² deep into the ground

By Tim Harper