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• The 53rd Annual JUNO Awards, produced by Insight Productions (a Boat Rocker company), will broadcast and stream live across Canada from Scotiabank Centre in Halifax at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. AST on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, CBC Listen, and globally at CBCMusic.ca/junos and CBC Music's YouTube page.
• Tickets for The 2024 JUNO Awards go on-sale November 10 and start at $57.50 (including tax plus fees) and will be available for purchase at www.ticketmaster.ca/junos.
• Legendary singer, songwriter and pop superstar, Nelly Furtado will host the awards for the second time since her 2007 debut in Saskatoon.
• "I'm excited to return to host and perform at The 2024 JUNO Awards in Halifax," says Furtado.

• The new Yass Center for Education will combine the forces of the Yass Prize and CER into a new national force.
• This year's Yass Prize Semifinalists will be the guiding light for the renewed mission of the Yass Center.
• The prestigious $1 million Yass Prize is considered the Pulitzer of Education Innovation, according to Forbes Chief Content Editor, Randall Lane.
• In conjunction with the $1 million Yass Prize, the STOP Awards Initiative will distribute nearly $20 million in 2023.

• In MONOPOLY JUNIOR®: PAW Patrol Edition, kids will journey through Adventure Bay with their favorite heroes from the show, Chase, Marshall, Skye, and Rubble, represented by four themed tokens.
• Played by traditional GUESS WHO?® rules, each player will choose a mystery character and take turns using yes or no questions to guess the other player's mystery character.
• MONOPOLY JUNIOR®: PAW Patrol Edition (MSRP: $29.99) and GUESS WHO?®: PAW Patrol (MSRP: $29.99) are available now on The Op's website.
• To learn more about the games and The Op, visit www.TheOp.Games , and follow along on social ( @TheOpGames ) for more on the latest game announcements and launches.

• Petra Heil, a sea ice physicist from the Australian Antarctic Division, told the ABC it could tip the world into a new state.
• And if not, will humanity have another chance at survival in space?
• Read more:
  'This is the way the world ends': Nevil Shute's On the Beach warned us of nuclear annihilation.

‘Billionauts’ and how to choose who goes

• The ultra-wealthy are engaged in a private space race costing billions of dollars, while regular citizens often condemn the wasted resources and contribution to global carbon emissions.
• But if we have to select humans to send into space for a species survival mission, how do we choose who gets to go?

The ultra-wealthy and reproductive slavery

• The second option I rejected was allowing a reproductive slave class to develop, with some survivors compelled to populate the new community.
• This would disproportionately impact cis-gender women of reproductive capacity, demanding their gestational labour in exchange for a chance at survival.
• Many would argue preserving human values - including equality, reproductive liberty, and respect for diversity - is more important than saving human biology.

Reproduction and diversity

• But we would then have to hope enough candidates selected on other merits happen to be willing and able to procreate.
• Alternatively, we could reserve a certain number of places for those who agree to contribute to population growth.
• The more we focus on procreation, the less diversity we will preserve in the species as a whole – especially if we deliberately select against diverse sexualities, disabilities and older people.
• A lack of diversity would also threaten the long-term viability of the new society.

Random selection versus a points-based system

• The best balance between competing needs might be a stratified random sampling method, involving randomly selecting survivors from predetermined categories.
• Others might focus on other elements of practical usefulness or contribution to human diversity.
• Another option is a points-based system, whereby different skills and characteristics are ranked in terms of their desirability.