Newcomers who would like help preparing for their Canadians citizenship test will be offered a free course by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in the eastern city of Halifax. It will be offered in both of Canada’s… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Canada-US trade war? Meat vs wine?
A potential trade war is looming as a result of a US labelling law known as MCOOL or the “meat-country of origin labelling”. The US law is hurting Canadian livestock ranchers to the tune of about $1 billion a year… »
Wild bobcat appears at man’s window
A wild bobcat smacked into the basement window of a home in Bedford, Nova Scotia and stayed long enough to have its picture taken. “He seemed to be aggressive and his hair was sort of spiky,” Bob Bauer said. “You know,… »
Canadian workers among world’s happiest: survey
Nearly two-thirds of Canadian workers say they love or like their jobs a lot, according to a survey conducted for the job website Monster.ca. Their level of satisfaction was well ahead of workers in the Netherlands, India, the United States,… »
Peter Wintonick, Canadian documentary champion, dead at 60
Canadian documentary filmmaker and ambassador, Peter Wintonick, died Monday morning (November 18) at the age of 60 of a rare liver cancer, Cholangiocarcinoma. Best known for co-directing the 1992 documentary “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media” Wintonick was also known for… »
Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page on new challenges
For five years, veteran public servant Kevin Page had one goal as Canada’s first Parliamentary Budget Officer, to make sure Members of Parliament and Senators had the information they needed to vote on legislation. This past March, Page’s appointment was… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Revised global warming models needed as data gaps filled
A recent study using new techniques has filled in some of the information gaps in global temperatures and predictions of warming, and counters claims that warming has levelled off. The interdisciplinary team of computational scientist Kevin Cowtan of the University… »
Canada asks Sri Lanka to respect human rights
Canada continues to ask Sri Lanka to allow an independent investigation into atrocities committed at the end of its civil war, and that the government respect human rights and the rule of law. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper boycotted a… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Anniversary of the adoption of Standard time zones.
At midnight November 18, 1883 the idea of the world’s standard time began in the province of Nova Scotia and the eastern seaboard of the US. This became known as the Atlantic time zone. Fleming was knighted in 1897 by… »
U.S. tv spoofs Toronto’s disgraced mayor
Toronto’s disgraced mayor Rob Ford has made the big time, featuring prominently on big American television comedy shows like Saturday Night Live. The NBC program parodied the mayor’s repeated public apologies for such things as smoking crack, buying drugs, driving… »
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