The 2020 Polaris Music Prize was awarded on Monday night to Montreal-based Gothic rap singer Backxwash. Her self-produced album God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It was selected over nine other contenders as Canada’s best… »
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COVID-19 tracing app: Only 5 per cent reporting their infection in Ontario
Canada’s national COVID-19 tracing app has been downloaded over 4.5 million times across Canada though the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta have not accepted the federal app so far. Alberta at present has its own app called AB Trace… »
Arts & Entertainment, Indigenous
Indigenous festival launches online concerts
The Montreal International First Peoples Festival will present a series of three new concerts online at the end of October 2020. This is the 30th year of the festival and this year the theme is Nomade Land. The concerts were… »
Economy, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian regulator greenlights Elon Musk’s satellite internet plan
Canada’s telecommunications regulator has approved an application by a company owned by U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk to provide satellite internet service to Canadians living in rural and remote areas. Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) owned by Musk plans to… »
Canada’s government promises more to end poverty
Canada is considered a wealthy country but many people live in poverty and the Canadian government has vowed to do more to help them. The federal government has a Poverty Reduction Strategy and it has taken some concrete steps to… »
Canadian businesses worry about surviving pandemic’s second wave: survey
Nearly a third (31 per cent) of small- and medium-sized Canadian business owners worry they don’t have enough money or access to credit to survive another significant economic downturn caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to… »
Canada-U.S. border to remain closed until Nov. 21
Canada and the U.S. are extending travel restrictions on their mutual land border until at least Nov. 21, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said Monday. “Our decisions will continue to be based on the best public health advice available to… »
Bowhead whales beached in Arctic: victims of killer whales?
A group of Inuit hunters have come across the carcasses of four beached bowhead whales in the high Arctic. The group was hunting polar bears about 60 kilometres north of the Nunavut community of Kugaaruk when they came across the… »
‘Support the arts and save taxes!’, says Quebec’s classical music community
This week, some 25 Quebec singers have taken the mic for a collective live recording of the famous Blues du Businessman, a hit from the 1970s musical Starmania later sung by Celine Dion. The chorus goes: “J’aurais voulu être un… »
Champagne meets Belarus’s exiled opposition leader in Lithuania
Canada “will always be on your side” Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne told exiled Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya during their meeting in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Friday. Tikhanovskaya fled to Lithuania following the crackdown against tens of… »
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