At a time when Canadian officials are promoting more physical activity including cycling, the most common kind of cycling accident was caught on video in Montreal. Marie Jacobs says she was lucky to escape with only minor injuries after someone… »
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Toronto’s elephants to leave for California sanctuary today
The long saga over the health, and welfare elephants at Toronto Zoo is nearing its conclusion today. The three remaining and aging elephants will be loaded into giant cages today, and trucked to a sanctuary in California Elephants first came… »
Oct 17: Anniversary of a terrorist assassination in Canada
Canada is perceived to be, and generally is, a very peaceful place to live. However, for a period in the 1960’s to the 1970’s, it was a scary place in the mostly Francophone province of Quebec, and especially in the… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, Politics, Society
Parliament Hill temporarily shut down this morning
A man was arrested this morning after a suspicious package was reported inside a building that houses Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office, near Parliament Hill. The Prime Minister was not in the building at the time. All eyes were already… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Politics, Society
Crickets one of the insects in Canada’s food future
On this World Food Day, organizers of the first international conference on entomophagy in North America took the opportunity to announce the event planned for late August 2014 in Montreal. The Insectarium, part of the city’s “Space for Life” was… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International
Canadian researcher leaves Arctic Circle conference shocked and worried
“The message was very clear, there are resources there and we’re coming to get them, and you better be with us than against us” As the climate changes, it’s become increasingly clear that those changes are having a significant affect… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Tablets, smartphones poised to overtake PCs
Smartphone and tablet users could outnumber users of personal computers by the year 2015, according to tech experts. More Canadians are buying PCs today, but that’s about to change. “Tablets have been growing much faster than PCs in recent years,”… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s Tale ballet making its debut
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, one of Margaret Atwood‘s most popular novels has been produced as a film, an opera, and tonight it will debut as a ballet. The Winnipeg Ballet Company opens its season with the longheld vision of artistic director… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
Huge algae blooms getting ‘difficult to control’
Increased phosphorus is causing massive algae blooms in Lake Erie at the heart of North America and a scientist says they are becoming “very difficult to control.” Last week toxins generated by algae forced one Ohio township to warn 2,000… »
Malala Yousafzai, to become honourary Canadian
Canada’s parliament resumes today with the governing Conservative party laying out its agenda in what is known as the “speech from the throne”. Among the spending plans, and various programmes to be announced, will also be something rather unique. The… »
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