Northern Canada is our Country’s Greatest Lie: Here’s What We’re Reading

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Here’s what we’re reading today:

1. How Big Sugar enlisted Harvard scientists to influence how we eat

“In 1965, the Sugar Research Foundation, the precursor to today’s Sugar Association, paid Harvard scientists to discredit a link now widely accepted among scientists—that consuming sugar can raise the risk of cardiovascular disease. Instead, the industry and the Harvard scientists pinned the blame squarely, and only, on saturated fat. ”

2. “About as many Canadians live in Australia as live in Nunavut”

“More people live in Moose Jaw than live in the Yukon. Compared to other Arctic regions, Canada has done so little to develop its northern economy that it is now rivalled by the tiny Faroe Islands. There’s still no four-season road to our Arctic shores. The only railroad is falling apart. There’s no longer a port, and it’s easier to fly to Africa than it is to Nunavut.” For Macleans, Scott Gilmore debunks the claim that Canada is a proud northern nation.

3. DNA surveillance is the new stop-and-frisk

“Over the last decade, collecting DNA from people who are not charged with — or even suspected of — any particular crime has become an increasingly routine practice for police in smaller cities”

4. The painstaking, secretive process of designing new money

“Ten years of development went into Australia’s new $5 banknote—to make it as expensive and difficult to forge as possible.”

5. The slogan for Apple’s new iPhone 7 translates into “This is penis” in Hong Kong

“When the American tech giant launched the newest iPhone 7 and 7 Plus this week, Apple fans in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan realized that the Chinese translations of the new ‘This is 7’ slogan vary, a lot.”

Photo: Macleans