A week ago Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird called the Iranian election “effectively meaningless”, now in an open letter to Iranians he congratulated Iranians on the result and offered to support their demands for change. In his June 15,… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
Largest iceberg cluster in 5 years drifting south off Labrador
About 250 icebergs, the largest cluster in 5 years, are drifting through transatlantic shipping routes south off Labrador, says the coast guard. “The shipping that is going through there are reporting numerous bergs,” said Peter Veber, Atlantic superintendent of ice… »
New archive of sad legacy of Canada’s Aboriginal residential schools
The University of Manitoba has been chosen to be the home of the National Research Centre on Residential Schools. The official signing ceremony marking the decision by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was held at the university Friday, June 21, on… »
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Canadians Obsessed with Real Estate?
Real estate and the price of houses is the subject of a lot of conversations in Canada. And now an online survey finds that a majority of Canadians think about real estate on a regular basis. Zoocasa, an online home… »
Arts & Entertainment, International
Mesopotamian Treasures in Toronto
The Mesopotamia Exhibit will be opening this weekend at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum It will feature over 170 treasured artifacts, most never seen before in Canada. Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, was located in an area of modern-day Iraq, northeast… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous
Paddling for Our Waters
National Aboriginal Day has been an official celebration in Canada since 1996, but for millenia, Canada’s aboriginal communities honoured the summer solstice as an important change in the calendar that ruled their hunting and gathering practices. On June 21st this… »
Dozens of children seized from Mennonite community in Manitoba
A small community in rural Manitoba is reeling after child welfare authorities removed dozens of children from about 15 Old Order Mennonite families following reports of corporal punishment using straps and cattle prods. Only one minor, a 17-year-old, remains in… »
Canadian peacekeepers quietly deploy to Haiti
A platoon of Canadian soldiers are about to take part in the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Haiti, alongside their Brazilian colleagues. Thirty-four Canadian soldiers from the Royal 22e Regiment, based in Valcartier, Que, have been embedded with Brazil’s 44th… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Sour gas pipeline rupture forces evacuation, as flooding continues in Alberta
A sour gas pipeline rupture has caused a release of H2S in the Town of Turner Valley in the western prairie province of Alberta provoking an emergency alert by authorities, and the evacuation of people because of the gas leak.… »
Canadians’ record household debt-to-income ratio, marginally lower
The government data agency Statistics Canada reported Thursday (June 20) that Canadians’ household debt to income ratio had lowered for the second consecutive quarter. In a financial note on its website Canada’s largest bank RBC calls the change “a second… »
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