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• Canada's 2 newest astronauts named during Parliament Hill festivities

  01-07-2017 20:05 via cbc.ca
  
  Jennifer Sidey of Calgary and Joshua Kutryk of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., are Canada's newest astronauts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced during Canada Day 150 celebrations in Ottawa today.
  
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• Interac 'working hard' at restoring e-Transfer service that has been out since Friday

  01-07-2017 18:17 via cbc.ca
  
  Interac says it is still "working hard" at restoring the e-Transfer service that has been out since Friday morning, and is aiming for it to be back online sometime today.
  
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• Interac restoring e-Transfer service bank by bank

  01-07-2017 18:17 via cbc.ca
  
  Interac said it began restoring e-Transfer service shortly before 9 p.m. ET on Saturday, "through all financial institutions on a sequential basis," after it was suspended Friday morning while technical issues were being worked out.
  
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• Interac e-Transfer service fully restored

  01-07-2017 18:17 via cbc.ca
  
  Interac says its e-Transfer service is back to being "fully operational among all financial institutions" after it was suspended Friday morning while technical issues were being worked out.
  
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• Interac e-Transfer service expected to be restored later today

  01-07-2017 18:17 via cbc.ca
  
  Interac says it made "significant progress" overnight in addressing an "internal technical issue" affecting its e-Transfer service and expects it to be back online later Saturday.
  
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• British smokers down by 1. 9 million since smoking ban

  01-07-2017 14:17
  Ten years after cigarettes were banished from all UK pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants, new figures reveal there are 1.9 million fewer smokers in Britain compared to when the smoking ban was introduced in 2007, with smoking rates now the lowest ever recorded.
  
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• Vaquita porpoise: Dolphins deployed to save rare species

  01-07-2017 11:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Mexican government is to use US Navy-trained dolphins to locate and herd endangered vaquitas.
  
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• With Super NES Classic, Nintendo continues to rule the retro games market

  01-07-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  It isn't hard to find classic video games today, whether you're a collector of dusty old cartridges or just looking to download retro games on your smartphone. But why do Nintendo's Classics re-releases command so much attention?
  
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• Canada's 2 newest astronauts to be announced at Parliament Hill festivities

  01-07-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Starting with a pool of more than 3,700 candidates, the Canadian Space Agency put astronaut hopefuls through physically and mentally gruelling tests, and then assessed their personality characteristics to make their final choice.
  
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