Canada allowed widespread surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits in Canada, according to Canada’s national television public broadcaster CBC TV. CBC reporter Greg Weston broke the story Wednesday night (November 27) using top… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
Judge orders sect children into foster care
A youth court judge in the province of Quebec has ordered that 14 children from the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor be placed temporarily in foster care, undergo medical exams and receive psychological support. Quebec’s government passed a Youth Protection Act… »
Economy, International, Politics
Canada announces diplomatic ‘assets’ to be used to support commercial success
“This new focus represents a sea change in the way Canada’s diplomatic assets are deployed around the world,” Canada’s International Trade Minister Ed Fast told a mostly business audience on Wednesday morning (November 27). Speaking at the Economic Club in… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous
Media Co-Op reporter Miles Howe arrested three times at anti-fracking protests
Halifax Media Co-op journalist Miles Howe was released by police Wednesday (November 27) after his third arrest at a Indigenous First Nation anti-fracking protest in the Atlantic coast province of New Brunswick. The Elsipogtog First Nation has been protesting SWN Resouces… »
Economy, International, Politics, Society
Report: Canada could be doing better with its foreign aid
A new report just released by the C.D. Howe Institute, says Canada’s development foreign aid (as opposed to emergency aid) would be more effective if it dealt with the issues of weak governments in recipient ,or host, countries. The C.D.… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
First major snowstorm hits provinces of Ontario and Quebec
Canada’s most populous provinces of Ontario and Quebec were hit by the first snowstorm of the winter season overnight. The storm is now (November 27) affecting the Atlantic coast provinces. Across the southern and eastern parts of Canada’s most populous province of Ontario, the… »
Canada’s prison population growing, more diverse
Canada’s prison population has grown by almost nine per cent over the last five years, mostly driven by increases in the numbers of ethnically and culturally diverse offenders, reports Correctional Investigator, Howard Sapers. The investigator is an ombudsman mandated to… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, International, Politics
Using satellite photos to discover massive under-reported fishing
A University of British Columbia PhD student has found that there is massive under-reporting of fish catches in the Persian Gulf. Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak,is a Ph.D. student with the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre “Sea Around Us Project”. She is… »
Canadian farm incomes up again last year
Canadian farmers earned 31.7 per cent more in 2012 than they did the previous year, according to government statistics. That continued a trend that saw a gain of 56.3 per cent in 2011 and 16.9 per cent in 2010. Canada… »
Northern marathon a chilly challenge
Twelve runners braved sub-Arctic cold and the threat of hungry polar bears to complete a 42.2 km marathon in Churchill, Manitoba last Friday, November 22. Churchill is located on the 58th parallel but is much colder than other places at… »
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