The Daily Populous

Saturday March 16th, 2024 evening edition

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A Toronto-based company that analyzes canine DNA is in the doghouse after an investigative report raised questions about the accuracy of its dog breed identification tests.

These DNA testing kits cost between $79.99 and $199.99 and are analyzed at the company’s office in Birch Cliff, a neighbourhood in the eastern part of Toronto.

An investigative team at WBZ News, located in Boston, Mass., decided to put DNA My Dog, and other pet DNA services like it, to the test.

But instead of sending in a cheek swab from a dog, they submitted DNA taken from the cheek of their reporter, Christina Hager.

But DNA My Dog determined that Hager was 40 per cent Alaskan Malamute, 35 per cent Shar-Pei and 25 per cent Labrador, according to the report.

🐶 A pet DNA testing company said a sample from my cheek shows I’m part Labrador #wbz https://t.co/lpIXB8VzIt — Christina Hager (@HagerWBZ) March 13, 2024.

“Our test is designed to measure canine DNA specifically, not DNA from humans nor any other species,” Barnett wrote. »

Russia says it killed large number of Ukrainian soldiers with ‘vacuum bomb’ in claim Kyiv calls nonsense

Authored by edition.cnn.com

Russia says it killed large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers with a destructive so-called “vacuum bomb” in a claim Ukraine swiftly called nonsense.

The spokesperson of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Andriy Yusov, told CNN the claims were “absolute nonsense and propaganda as well as Russian information about killing 1500 Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk and Belgorod regions yesterday”.

The spokesperson of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Andriy Yusov, told CNN the claims were “absolute nonsense and propaganda.”. »

Putin’s ‘Rabble of Thin-Necked Henchmen’

Authored by theatlantic.com
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That military sources envision a general at the top, and that they disagree on which one, is not surprising.

Putin’s current prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, reportedly has a good public reputation and a competent staff—conditions that could bode ill for him under a jealous president.

Some point to Putin’s 41-year-old adviser, Maksim Oreshkin, an economist and a banker, as a possible replacement. »

A warming island’s mice are breeding out of control and eating seabirds. An extermination is planned

Authored by apnews.com
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If even one pregnant mouse survives, their prolific breeding ability means it may have all been for nothing.

Undisturbed, at least, until stowaway house mice arrived on seal hunter ships in the early 1800s, introducing the island’s first mammal predators.

But now on Marion Island, “their breeding season has been extended, and this has resulted in a massive increase in the densities of mice.”. »