Porter Airlines, based at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, is a step closer to becoming Canada’s third-largest airline. Today the regional carrier announced it had signed an interline agreement with Icelandair. The agreement will give passengers access to 20 destinations… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
Bear-proofing in Whitehorse, Yukon
The northern city of Whitehorse has a problem with bears. A rummaging black bear had to be darted and relocated by officials © Govt of Yukon-Ken Knutson As a northern city, the wilderness is all around and close by. In some residential… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Monarch butterflies disappearing in eastern Canada
Monarch butterflies, or more precisely the lack of monarch butterflies, is cause for grave concern in the scientific and entomology circles that monitor them. Butterflies, usually “champions” of adaptation, are not winning this year © Michel Tremblay/courtesy of Space for Life… »
Honest Ed’s, is it the end of an era?
Honest Ed’s, the self-described “World Famous Bargain Centre” is for sale. The brightly-lit landmark, on a corner just a few blocks west of down town Toronto, will celebrate its 65th anniversary this weekend, the birthday of its founder, Ed Mirvish.… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life
Saving abandoned sled-dogs
It’s a tangled tale, and the victims have been sled dogs. Maintaining a team of high performance dogs is costly. © CBC While most sled dog tourist operations and individual sled racers, have been, and are, responsible owners when it comes… »
Toronto cop posed for cameras as victim of flood
It was supposed to be a joke, but Toronto police were not amused by the behavior of an employee. During a record rainfall on July 8, as stranded passengers waited for rescue on a flooded GO Train, a police officer… »
Renowned Canadian realist painter, Alex Colville dies
One of Canada’s world renowned painters has died. Alex Colville passed away peacefully at age 92 at his home in Wolfville, Nova Scotia on Tuesday, July 16. The renowned Canadian artist Alex Colville died peacefully at home in Wolfville, N.S.,… »
Economy, International, Society
Foreign Service labour conflict affecting international students
Canada’s Foreign Service officers are having problems negotiating a settlement to their labour conflict with the government of Canada. The union representing diplomats and immigration officials have been without a contract for 20 months. Now escalating job action measures are… »
Canada’s parks development gets mixed review from environmental group
While Canada should be praised for creating new parks, it should also be criticized for ’inappropriate’ development that poses serious risk to park ecosystems, says environmental group Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) in its annual report. “Funding cuts and… »
Sad choice for a rural community
A buyer for the church also gets all the trappings, oak benches, chairs, embossed walls, etc. © CBC The Ledge United Church has been witness to many happy and sad occasions during it 135 year history. For most of that long… »
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