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By Kaitlyn Tiffany Getty Images Ex-Google employee Tristan Harris has a big plan for dismantling the addictive qualities of your favorite apps, but the story sounds familiar. Read more at Vox

By Victoria Ahearn, Canadian Press A mishap at Niagara Falls will land Lisa at a Canadian hospital. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be portrayed in Sunday's Canadian-themed episode of "The Simpsons," which is titled "D'Oh Canada." TORONTO — "The Simpsons" consulting producer Tim Long grew up in Ontario and has always sensed something secretly Canadian about Lisa, the middle child and most critically-minded member of the enduring American animated family. So when it came to this Sunday's Canadian-themed episode, it felt natural to make Lisa the one who spends time on this side of the border, said Long, who has won five Emmy Awards. Read more at Huffington Post

By Tyler Kingkade The quality gap between various universities is much smaller. Getty Images. A view of the University of Toronto, one of Canada's top-rated universities. It is consistently ranked higher than most colleges in the U.S. Alex Usher, the president of the consulting firm Higher Education Strategy Associates, received the same kind of responses when he did a similar survey of Canadian parents a couple of years ago. Usher lost track of how many times parents said something to the effect of "let 'em go to the local school, they're all kinda good." Read more at Huffington Post

By Catharine Tunney · CBC News Federal privacy commissioner plans to take social media network to court British Columbia Privacy Commissioner Michael McEvoy looks on as Canada's Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien (right) speaks during a news conference, Thursday, April 25, 2019 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) Canada's federal privacy watchdog plans to take Facebook to court following an investigation that found the social media giant broke a number of privacy laws and failed to take responsibility for protecting Canadians' personal information. Read more at CBC News

By Eli Glasner · CBC News In an industry built on fun, some employees are pushed to their breaking point Canadian video game designer Osama Dorias works at his computer with his son sleeping on his shoulder in this picture from 2008. (Osama Dorias) The video game industry long ago powered up from basement workshops to big business. The multiplayer game Fortnite now competes with Netflix in terms of the number of eyeballs they attract. In 2018, revenue for the U.S. gaming industry reached a new high score of $43.4 billion — far surpassing the film industry. With big-name companies such as Ubisoft and BioWare, Canada is a major player — the world's third largest producer of video games, behind the U.S. and Japan. But as the industry grows, crunch appears to be a bad habit that some companies have yet to break. Read more at CBC News

By Murray Brewster · CBC News 'Canada is not the only country whose nationals are detained in China' - Kimihiro Ishikane Michael Spavor, left, and former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, right, have been accused of espionage by China. (Associated Press/International Crisis Group/Canadian Press) The arrest and detention of two Canadians by China late last year was an event that looked eerily familiar to Japan. It is, for the government in Tokyo, part of a pattern they have had to contend with over the last few years. China's detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — allegedly in retaliation over Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges — shocked the general public in this country and left federal policymakers reeling. For Japan, however, such conflicts are just a basic feature of its relationship with an enormous and powerful neighbour — something to be handled with extraordinary delicacy. ...

By ERIN BRODWIN, BUSINESS INSIDER (Danielle Scott/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) Read more at Science Alert 1. Fatty foods Carbs make you fat. When your glucose levels rise, your body makes more insulin, which causes several responses. First, your cells stop burning fat and switch exclusively to burning glucose. Second, your liver stores more glucose as glycogen. Third, your fat cells store more fat. If your fat cells are storing fat, you get fat. 2. Gluten It's not gluten that causing problems; it's glyphosate. 8. GMOs The biggest problem with GMOs is that they are engineered to be highly tolerant of glyphosate, a known carcinogen. 10. All carbs All carbs do contribute to obesity. See #1 above. Don't stop where the ink does. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0