Highlights / Month: October 2013

Politics, Society

Head judge favours gender parity in highest court

Canada’s chief justice says she personally favours gender parity on the country’s top court, the Supreme Court of Canada. Beverley McLachlin’s comments came one day after the prime minister nominated Justice Marc Nadon to fill a seat on the bench. That »

Uncategorized

Inmates strike over pay cut

Prisoners in Canada’s federal penitentiaries have gone on strike to protest a 30 per cent cut in their pay. Inmates earn an average $3 a day, less than a third of the minimum wage in provinces like Quebec. They have »

Uncategorized

Titanic photo for auction

An image of the tragic days following the sinking of the Titanic will be auctioned in London, England on October 19. The photo, showing bodies wrapped and piled three and four high, is of a burial at sea, thought to »

Health, Internet, Science & Technology

Toronto surgeon develops “black-box” for operating rooms

Flying an aircraft with its complex systems requires a high degree of safety.  Long ago, the industry developed flight recorders, that collected data and cockpit voices so that in the event of an accident, investigators could determine what may have »

Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Health, International, Society

Winter Olympic mittens

The Sochi Olympic Games are approaching and here in Canada the countdown is on. The Olympic flame will arrive in Moscow on October 6th. Meanwhile, Canadians have the opportunity to support our Olympic team with the purchase of the red »

Society

Canadian students texting in class

Canadians teens send an average of more than 3,500 texts per month, many of those while they are in class, suggests research from the University of Montreal. Cellphones are banned in many schools but students have become adept at hiding »

Economy, International, Politics, Society

U.S. spending shut down effect on Canada

The United States spending shut down put 800,000 Americans out of work today and closed the doors of the institutions and sites that usually welcome people from across the country and around the world. There have been 17 spending shut downs »

International, Politics, Society

PAN-AM Games execs blasted for expenses

The Pan-Am games, to be held in the city of Toronto, Ontario in 2015 are still a long way off but already controversy has arisen over expenses passed off to taxpayers by the highly-paid executives Documents obtained by the Toronto »

International

Tax evasion scam revealed by CBC

Using hidden cameras, the public broadcaster, CBC has uncovered offshore scams to hide money from the tax man. One of the schemes discussed by a Canadian-Swiss banker was a way to hide undeclared cash in Switzerland using a method that, »

Environment & Animal Life

Cats are biggest killers of birds in Canada

270 million birds are killed in Canada every year from human-related activity, according to a report by the government department, Environment Canada. The total bird population is estimated at 10 billion. “We’ve got a lot of birds, and that’s probably »