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"Embarrassing" medical question? Research shows you'd rather confess to a chatbot than a human being. Ohio State University's Jianna Jin explains why consumers would sometimes rather talk with a machine from an online store.

YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SERIES: Is your child using their phone too much? (And what is too much?!) Angelique Jenney, Wood's Homes research chair in children’s mental health: "Parents have a huge role" in tech conversation.

Bowness "monstrosity" and housing rezoning will drive Sarah Popowich and her family out of Calgary and possibly to Texas. New building blocks warmth and sunlight from gardener's backyard: "Every time I go outside, I'm heartbroken." 
"Taking from one person the reason they bought their house and the joy of their property to make room for these giant buildings doesn't seem like maybe the complete answer."

Is the word "please" going extinct? UCLA researchers discover we say it only THIS much. Sociologist Andrew Chalfoun says they also discovered children and adults use "please" equally. 

Do you always get lost? Investigating whether we're born with a sense of direction - or it's a skill we can learn. Professor David Uttal, world's leading scholar on maps, space and place from Northwestern University, says it's both.

Immigration minister Marc Miller on welcoming immigrants into Canada during a housing crisis: "If we don't leverage immigration in the right way, we will have a looming crisis with the services we expect and need."