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Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!
CANADA
Campaign aims to make O Canada lyrics gender neutral again
A group of well-known Canadian women has started a campaign calling for more gender-neutral language in the English lyrics of ‘O Canada.’ The group wants the federal government to amend the National Anthem Act and change one of the lines in the English anthem to be more gender neutral…Read Full Article
From CTV News
GOVERNMENT
Government shutdown is a big deal for needy women and children
In the wake of the first government shutdown in nearly two decades, pundits clamor to provide commentary on both the causes and effects of the failure to pass a budget, funding nonessential government functions. Some argue that the shutdown is unremarkable…Read Full Article
From Washington Post
HEALTH
Healthier kids skip “kid food” diets and eat more like adults
Humans are the only animals who feed their kids something other than what they’re supposed to eat as adults. If you watch any nature show, you’ll see that there’s no such thing as “kid food” in the animal world…Read Full Article
From Treehugger
TECHNOLOGY
No assembly required: Ikea to sell solar panels in U.K.
The retailer , with the goal of using renewables to produce 100 percent of its energy needs by 2020. Ikea says it will begin offering the photovoltaic (PV) solar panel packages — which include installation — at all 17 of its British stores within the next 10 months…Read Full Article
From The Two-Way
NEWS
Jellyfish swarm clogs nuclear reactor
A massive swarm of jellyfish clogged a water intake pipe at the Oskarshamn power plant in Sweden, forcing operators to temporarily shut down the reactor…Read Full Article
From Treehugger
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