Highlights / Month: October 2013

Economy, Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society

Why are some of Canada’s physician specialists unemployed?

With wait times for physician specialists lasting months, or years, how is it that there are numerous specialists, unemployed or under-employed? That’s the focus of a new study of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. The two »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Politics

Cohen wild salmon report, one year later, more action needed say critics

Wild salmon advocates say meaningful action needs to be taken on recommendations made a year ago by a federal commission into the decline of Fraser River sockeye. The Cohen Commission was set up after a drastic drop in the number »

Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology

Alberta study shows global warming may give slight benefit to Grizzly bears

Grizzly bears once roamed over about half of the North American continent. In the past 150 years that range has retracted to an area in Alberta and British Columbia to Alaska, the Yukon and a small presence in the Northwest »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, Politics, Society

Suburban sprawl costs Canadians, says think tank

Canada needs to challenge the myth that suburban sprawl is cheaper than denser development near urban cores, says a report by a national think tank.  In Canada, an average family home in the city can cost between $500,000 and $600,000 »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Politics

Grassy Narrows First Nation anti-logging battle continues

A First Nation Indigenous community is determined to challenge permits for logging near their territory in the southwestern region of the Canadian province of Ontario. The Grassy Narrows First Nation is concerned logging will affect their forests and worsen mercury »

Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

A “virtual” world’s first for Canada

Canada leads the world with first “bitcoin” machine  The world’s first “bitcoin” automated banking machine (ABM or ATM) has been installed in a coffee shop in Canada’s west coast port city of Vancouver The machine converts the virtual currency “bitcoin” »

Health, Society

Study counts calories burned during jogging, sex

Jogging burns more calories than sex according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Quebec, Canada. Researchers fitted 21 heterosexual couples with fitness tracking devices and made them jog on a treadmill for half an hour. They »

International, Society

Canada’s Olympic uniforms inspired by painter

Some of the designs on the clothing for Canadian Olympic and Paralympic athletes were inspired by legendary Canadian painter Emily Carr. Stylized beavers, loons and polar bears appear on some items. The uniforms were modelled by athletes at a news »

Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology

Sea-lions freed from slow death in British Columbia

It’s a first in Canada. Dr Haulena of the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre removing the thin plastic packing strap from one of the tranquilized animals, with movement and growth the straps cut deeper into the neck and would slowly choke »

Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics

Northern Canadian town leads country in reported pipeline incidents

A remote town in Canada’s northern territories ranks as the community with the most reported incidents on federally-regulated pipelines in the country, a fact that’s surprised key community members. According to information obtained by Canada’s national public broadcaster CBC from Canada’s pipeline regulator, »