Although it’s still to be released officially October 29 – Montreal’s Grammy award winning Arcade Fire has released a “Full Album Teaser” of its new album “Reflektor” on YouTube. A two month promotion for the upcoming album has included chalk… »
Highlights / Month: October 2013
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Don’t pay for kidney donations: medical ethicist
Even though there are 3,400 Canadians waiting for a kidney transplant and nowhere near enough organs to go around, Canada should not change the law to allow payment to kidney donors, says one medical ethicist. Researchers at the Canadian Organ… »
Anniversary of a critical but largely forgotten battle for Canada
Battle of Châteauguay: 26 October 1813. On the 25th and 26th of October 1813, one of the most important battles to repulse American invaders and save Canada took place. However, although a critical battle in the history of Canada, it is… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Canada fails to meet greenhouse gas targets
Canada’s environment department says the country will come nowhere near meeting its targets for greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. In fact, its own report finds Canada is actually slipping backwards. Canada committed to cutting emissions by 17 per cent from… »
Aging boomers want to stay in their own homes
As they get older, most Canadians around retirement age say they want to stay in their own homes and pay for home care if it is necessary, according to a recent survey. They would prefer this to living with family… »
Ontario to create more protection for animals
Canada’s most populous province is preparing to make sweeping changes to improve animal welfare. The changes include more power and more money for the Ontario Society for the Protection of Animals. (OSPCA). The move has been more than a year… »
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Eye on the Arctic: Inuk aritst Mark Igloliorte on how skateboarding inspires his work
Mark Igloliorte is an Inuk artist from Nunatsiavut, the Inuit self-governing region in the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. He grew up in the Labrador town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay.Igloliorte draws heavily from both Labrador Inuit culture and… »
Denials and accusations in House of Commons, as Senate continues sober second thought
Canada’s upper chamber of sober second thought, the appointed, Senate continues to be at the centre of political attention in Ottawa, and across Canada. In the House of Commons the heart of the issue is what Conservative Prime Minister Stephen… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
More fracking, more protest in Canada
Native protests against shale gas exploration got violent last week in the eastern province of New Brunswick, while fracking operations are in full swing in western Canada. Forcing water and chemicals under high pressure to release gas has gone on… »
Canada’s Loblaw to provide long-term compensation to Bangladeshi garment workers
On the six-month anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh the Canadian supermarket chain Loblaw has announced it will provide long-term compensation to victims and their families who were producing its apparel at the New Wave… »
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