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Philip Drost

Philip Drost

Senior Writer / Journalist at CBC News Network

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  • English
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  • General Assignment News
  • Regional News

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He diagnosed his rare disease using Google. Now he hopes AI can do the same for others

Ian Stedman champions using artificial intelligence to diagnose more people with rare diseases after it took him 32 years and extraordinary effort to pinpoint his own rare disease. Now eastern Ontario's children's hospital is doing just that.
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With Canada Post on strike, these mail-strike hustlers are picking ...

With Canada Post employees are on strike, some Canadians have started side hustles making deliveries to supplement income.
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What if Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy kissed? How fan fiction i...

Audiences love a fan fiction, from a romance between the Hermoine Granger and Draco Malfoy — a pairing that never happened in the Harry Potter books or films — to expanding on Bella and Edward's relationship from Twilight. And publishers, along with Hollywood, have taken notice.
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These aren't your Granny's Smiths: Why we have more apple varieties...

The apple game has changed, right under our very apple tree. It’s no longer just Red Delicious and Granny Smiths. There are now more apple options than ever before, from Cosmic Crisps to SweeTangos.
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Baby-shaped bars of soap and other wacky political campaign novelties

Over the last year, Claire Jerry, a curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, has been out in the field collecting buttons, signs, clothing and other campaign items to add to a collection of artifacts documenting the evolution of Presidential elections.
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This engineer built a functioning Remy from Ratatouille

Christina Ernst of Chicago designed a functioning version of the rodent from the Pixar classic Ratatouille.
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This camel desperately needed a pair of shoes. A cobbler came to hi...

It’s far from typical for a camel to sport shoes around the yard, but then again, it’s far from typical for a camel to be trotting around the United Kingdom. So when cobbler Stuart Moss got a call from a woman named Lady Chichester about making a shoe for a camel, he thought it was a prank.
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Birthday freebies are enticing. But they aren't as free as they appear

Lincoln Ho doesn’t celebrate his birthday with cake or a party with friends. Instead, he spends his entire birthday getting free stuff. But that free stuff isn’t so free, marketing experts say. It costs you data.
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How DeMar DeRozan changed the conversation around mental health in ...

DeMar DeRozan never expected he would spark a discussion about depression, but with a single tweet, he created a ripple effect that would change the conversation around mental health in pro sports.
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Cities are overheating. How do we cool them down?

It’s becoming harder and harder to escape the heat, especially if you live in an urban area. And with most Canadians living in cities, experts say it’s time to focus on building cooler cities.
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As temperatures rise, so will the cost of an AC unit

The cost of air conditioning units is expected to go up by anywhere between 10 to 20 per cent next year because of regulation changes in keeping with the Montreal Protocol.