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Anti-social media app helps you avoid other people

Categories: Community, Science & Technology

Tags: Technology

si_hell_is_app.jpgA cheeky new app, billed "an experiment in ant-social media," leverages a user's own social network to decrease the likeliness of actually crossing paths with someone in it. 

Twitter users surrender accounts for Tourette awareness

Categories: Community

Tags: Community, Health, Technology, Technology and Science

ii-220-TouretteSyndrome.jpgThe Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada is asking people to give up control over their personal Twitter accounts for 24 hours so that they can experience what it feels like to have involuntary verbal and physical tics associated with the syndrome.

Airport worker's sloppy loading goes viral

Categories: Community, World

Tags: community, World

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An airplane passenger who captured a freight handler's carelessness on camera has watched his year-old YouTube video rack up millions of fresh views in the past few days.

In the roughly four minute video, Mark Bridgman watches a man chuck boxes toward the airplane's conveyor belt.

Tell us your internship stories

Categories: Community

Tags: Canada, Community, Employment

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With unpaid interns making the news following a landmark U.S. ruling, we want to hear your thoughts about internships. Send us your intern stories to community@cbc.ca.

Readers debate calling obesity a disease

Categories: Community, Health

Tags: Community, Community Reaction, Health

si-220-feed-baby.jpgThe American Medical Association voted on Tuesday to join the World Health Organization and other bodies in recognizing obesity as a disease at its annual meeting in Chicago. 

In our comments and on social media, the CBC Community debated the merits of treating obesity that way.

Caregiving fathers stigmatized at work, says UofT study

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, community, parenting, POV

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Fathers who participate in child rearing and housework are likely to be labeled slackers and "failed men" at work, according to a study spearheaded by researchers at the University of Toronto and Long Island University. 

Are active dads the norm at your workplace?

Starbucks rolls out calorie info on U.S. store menus

Categories: Community, Health

Tags: Community, Health

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Starbucks will start posting calorie counts on its menu boards in American stores next week, before federal legislation changes to require the coffee chain to do so.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is mulling over regulation that would force franchises with more than 20 locations to post nutritional information.

June photo contest: How do you start your morning?

Categories: Community

Tags: Photo Contest

si_june_morning.jpgNight owls and late-shift workers among us aside, the majority of Canadians must wake up every morning. Show us how you start your day for a chance to be featured on the CBC News Network!

Cake mistake leaves tiny cat on graduate's head

Categories: Community

Tags: storify

si_cake_fail_cat_cap.jpgLaura Gambrel's graduation cake is going viral thanks to a bakery worker who misheard her mother's request for a "cap" as a "cat."

Google pledges to rid the web of child pornography

Categories: Community, Science & Technology

Tags: Technology

si_google_child_porn_istock.jpgIf any one company could conceivably stop the sexual exploitation of children online, Google would be a likely contender - but not even the web's most ubiquitous search engine can tackle such a widespread problem without help.