By the time I sat down with Christopher Nolan in his posh hotel suite not far from the White House, I guessed that he was tired of Washington, D.C. The day before, he’d toured the Oval Office and had lunch on Capitol Hill. Later that night, I’d watched him receive an award from the Federation for American Scientists, an organization that counts Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Nolan’s most recent film, among its founders. Onstage, he’d briefly jousted with Republican Senator Todd Young on the subject of AI regulation. He’d endured a joke, repeated too many times by Senate Majority Leader...…By the time I sat down with Christopher Nolan in his posh hotel suite not far from the White House, I guessed that he was tired of Washington, D.C. The day before, he’d toured the Oval Office and had lunch on Capitol Hill. Later that night, I’d watched him receive an award from the Federation for American Scientists, an organization that counts Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Nolan’s most recent film, among its founders. Onstage, he’d briefly jousted with Republican Senator Todd Young on the subject of AI regulation. He’d endured a joke, repeated too many times by Senate Majority Leader...WW…

TORONTO --While patients get sicker and ICUs continue to fill up, critical care physicians are transporting patients between hospitals to free up beds in some of Ontario’s hardest hit regions.Naomi Williams is a critical care paramedic and field training officer based in Mississauga, Ont. Williams transports critically ill patients in ambulances between hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area and its outskirts.“I would like everybody to understand that this is such a serious disease. This is nothing that we’ve seen before. This has been affecting people who are younger and younger now with...…TORONTO --While patients get sicker and ICUs continue to fill up, critical care physicians are transporting patients between hospitals to free up beds in some of Ontario’s hardest hit regions.Naomi Williams is a critical care paramedic and field training officer based in Mississauga, Ont. Williams transports critically ill patients in ambulances between hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area and its outskirts.“I would like everybody to understand that this is such a serious disease. This is nothing that we’ve seen before. This has been affecting people who are younger and younger now with...WW…

AdvertisementTORONTO --In a project aiming to bring a type of oyster back from the brink of extinction in British waters, thousands are being reintroduced to local waters for the first time since the 19th century.The initiative is called the Wild Oyster Project, and it plans to return thousands of European flat oysters to the south of the United Kingdom's coastline in hopes of repopulating the overfished marinas.“The oysters will breed inside these structures and they will release millions and billions of oyster larvae,” Ashleigh Tinlin-Mackenzie from the Wild Oysters Project told CTV...…AdvertisementTORONTO --In a project aiming to bring a type of oyster back from the brink of extinction in British waters, thousands are being reintroduced to local waters for the first time since the 19th century.The initiative is called the Wild Oyster Project, and it plans to return thousands of European flat oysters to the south of the United Kingdom's coastline in hopes of repopulating the overfished marinas.“The oysters will breed inside these structures and they will release millions and billions of oyster larvae,” Ashleigh Tinlin-Mackenzie from the Wild Oysters Project told CTV...WW…

AdvertisementTORONTO --Canada's biggest cities are experiencing a record-breaking loss of people as urbanites move to smaller bedroom communities in search of affordable homes., Montreal and Toronto both saw a record loss of people from July 2019 to July 2020 as urban-dwellers moved to the suburbs, smaller towns and rural areas. Toronto lost 50,375 people over those 12 months while nearby Oshawa, Ont. saw its population grow by 2.1 per cent — the fastest population growth in the country. Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo in Ontario and Halifax were tied for the second-fastest growth, at 2...…AdvertisementTORONTO --Canada's biggest cities are experiencing a record-breaking loss of people as urbanites move to smaller bedroom communities in search of affordable homes., Montreal and Toronto both saw a record loss of people from July 2019 to July 2020 as urban-dwellers moved to the suburbs, smaller towns and rural areas. Toronto lost 50,375 people over those 12 months while nearby Oshawa, Ont. saw its population grow by 2.1 per cent — the fastest population growth in the country. Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo in Ontario and Halifax were tied for the second-fastest growth, at 2...WW…

AdvertisementTORONTO --Although U.S. President Donald Trump has not publicly expressed interest in creating a presidential library, it’s common for former presidents to build their own museum documenting their legacies.For Trump, the library would offer a chance to create a personalized version of how he wants his four years in the White House to be remembered.Paul Musgrave, an assistant professor in political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, told CTV News he thinks a museum would be a “perfect” opportunity for Trump. “For somebody like Donald Trump, this is a...…AdvertisementTORONTO --Although U.S. President Donald Trump has not publicly expressed interest in creating a presidential library, it’s common for former presidents to build their own museum documenting their legacies.For Trump, the library would offer a chance to create a personalized version of how he wants his four years in the White House to be remembered.Paul Musgrave, an assistant professor in political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, told CTV News he thinks a museum would be a “perfect” opportunity for Trump. “For somebody like Donald Trump, this is a...WW…

AdvertisementTORONTO --While violence between farmers and police in India continues to escalate, thousands of people across Canada are showing their solidarity through peaceful protests. Canadian protesters expressed support for farmers from India’s Punjab region after the Indian government passed a series of agricultural laws in September that farmers say jeopardize their livelihoods.Protesters say the new laws prevent farmers from selling crops such as grain to the government at a fixed cost, forcing them to sell privately to buyers and opening them up to exploitation by big...…AdvertisementTORONTO --While violence between farmers and police in India continues to escalate, thousands of people across Canada are showing their solidarity through peaceful protests. Canadian protesters expressed support for farmers from India’s Punjab region after the Indian government passed a series of agricultural laws in September that farmers say jeopardize their livelihoods.Protesters say the new laws prevent farmers from selling crops such as grain to the government at a fixed cost, forcing them to sell privately to buyers and opening them up to exploitation by big...WW…

of Old Delhi, on the edge of a medieval bazaar, a red structure with cages on its roof rises three stories above the labyrinth of neon-lit stalls and narrow alleyways, its top floor emblazoned with two words: .To hear more feature stories, or On a hot day last spring, I removed my shoes at the hospital’s entrance and walked up to the second-floor lobby, where a clerk in his late 20s was processing patients. An older woman placed a shoebox before him and lifted off its lid, revealing a bloody white parakeet, the victim of a cat attack. The man in front of me in line held, in a small cage, a...…of Old Delhi, on the edge of a medieval bazaar, a red structure with cages on its roof rises three stories above the labyrinth of neon-lit stalls and narrow alleyways, its top floor emblazoned with two words: .To hear more feature stories, or On a hot day last spring, I removed my shoes at the hospital’s entrance and walked up to the second-floor lobby, where a clerk in his late 20s was processing patients. An older woman placed a shoebox before him and lifted off its lid, revealing a bloody white parakeet, the victim of a cat attack. The man in front of me in line held, in a small cage, a...WW…

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the worldof Old Delhi, on the edge of a medieval bazaar, a red structure with cages on its roof rises three stories above the labyrinth of neon-lit stalls and narrow alleyways, its top floor emblazoned with two words: .To hear more feature stories, or On a hot day last spring, I removed my shoes at the hospital’s entrance and walked up to the second-floor lobby, where a clerk in his late 20s was processing patients. An older woman placed a shoebox before him and lifted off its lid, revealing a bloody white parakeet, the victim of...…What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the worldof Old Delhi, on the edge of a medieval bazaar, a red structure with cages on its roof rises three stories above the labyrinth of neon-lit stalls and narrow alleyways, its top floor emblazoned with two words: .To hear more feature stories, or On a hot day last spring, I removed my shoes at the hospital’s entrance and walked up to the second-floor lobby, where a clerk in his late 20s was processing patients. An older woman placed a shoebox before him and lifted off its lid, revealing a bloody white parakeet, the victim of...WW…