Blue-green algae is a growing problem in the lakes of the eastern province of New Brunswick, according to Eastern Charlotte Waterways. This organization is dedicated to protecting lakes in the province. Researcher Donald Killorn says the algae blooms are a… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
Massive waterfowl census underway in North America
In what’s considered to be the world’s largest wildlife survey, people are fanning out across huge swaths of North America to count different species of waterfowl and ponds. The surveys have been done every year since 1955 by the Canadian… »
Does Victoria Day need a new name?
Canadians celebrated a holiday on Monday. For English Canadians, the day off work was in honour of Queen Victoria, the long-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, who ruled from June 1837 to January 1901 and… »
Neil Reynolds dies at 72
A legendary Canadian newspaperman died over the weekend. Neil Reynolds, a high-school dropout who rose to become city editor and assistant managing editor of the Toronto Star in the 1970s and later served as an editor and publisher at newspapers… »
Is it time to break up the Jays?
Victoria Day (la fete des patriotes in Quebec) is traditionally the time when baseball fans in Canada assess the state of the Major League Baseball season and the hopes of Canada’s only Major League team, the Toronto Blue Jays. About… »
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Freak snowstorm hammers Newfoundland on “planting weekend”
Heavy snowfall is not at all what you expect on this holiday weekend in Canada. After a seemingly interminable winter, Canadians usually revel in the May long weekend gardening, dusting off the barbecue, having a beer on the deck and, if… »
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Prime minister’s aid resigns amid Senate scandal
The prime minister’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, has resigned over action he took in an expense scandal in the Canadian Senate. Wright wrote a check for $90,000 to pay Senator Mike Duffy’s improperly claimed housing expenses. Senators are allowed… »
Flu risks more paralytic disease than flu shot
There is a small risk of getting a paralytic illness after getting the flu shot, but that risk is higher if you actually get the flu according to a new study. Most Canadians can get a vaccination against the current… »
Vivienne Poy: Passage to Promise Land- voices of Chinese immigrant women to Canada
This week, more of a cultural angle to the arts report. Ms Vivienne Poy is a retired Senator, an historian, and author. her latest book deals with the relatively undocumented experiences of Chinese women who immigrated to Canada. As times… »
Politics Today – May 19, 2013
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda focuses on the controversy surrounding the expense claims of Conservative Senator Mike Duffy. He talks about the Liberal government re-election in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia, and the fact… »
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