The English Montreal School Board has raised nearly C$2 million dollars for scholarships and bursaries for its students. Formerly known as the Protestant School Board of Montreal, it had received gifts and donations of paintings over the years, often from… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Cellphone fracas over increased competition
Canada’s cell phone market is getting heated. The big three Canadian telecom companies, Rogers, BCE and Telus, have enjoyed an 85% monopoly of the existing available wireless spectrum infrastructure, but that may be about to change. Verizon on the horizon… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life
Maritime biologists concerned about lobster shell disease
Although there have no cases reported in Canada yet, maritime biologists on the east coast are on the lookout for cases of lobsters with a disease that eats away at their shells. The shell disease doesn’t affect the meat, or… »
Foreign service strike may go to arbitration
On-going job action by Canada’s foreign service officers has caused long delays in processing visa and immigration applications abroad but that might end if the dispute goes to binding arbitration. About 150 officers have walked out of 15 of the… »
New northern Ontario destination for scuba divers
The thrill of discovering lost shipwrecks will bring divers and increased tourism to northern Ontario. At least that’s what two divers in the town of Nipigon are hoping. They want to bring more visitors to the area by promoting Lake Superior… »
Record heat wave bakes Canada’s north
Canada’s three northern territories, which include Arctic regions, this week experienced record-breaking high temperatures about ten degrees Celsius above normal. Even more remarkable: the community of Kugluktuk, Nunavut set temperature records for the sixth consecutive day on Tuesday, hitting 29… »
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Lac-Mégantic disaster railway loses license
The railway company at the heart of the disaster at Lac-Mégantic no longer is allowed to operate in Canada and the businesses it served are worried. 47 people died on July 6 when an unmanned train operated by Montreal, Maine… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Unifor to be born out of the merger of two storied Canadian unions
Unifor will be cause for celebration for many Canadian workers on this upcoming Labour Day. The first Monday of September is traditionally the last holiday of the summer, and it is also the occasion to acknowledge Canada’s labour history and… »
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Jan Arden donating a jingle to raise money for Calgary Zoo
Jan Arden co-wrote a 60-second jingle with a friend from Nashville, that begins with a list; “Pandas, hippos, zebras, lions, porcupines with prickly coats, penguins, fruit bats, crocodiles and, of course, a mountain goat.” Calgary singer-songwriter Jann Arden © CBC You’d… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Flaws in medical research on animals; costly and wasteful.
Roughly 90% of new pharmaceutical drugs being developed never make it to market. A new report published in the respected journal PLOS says that much of the research effort is actually wasted by not eliminating dead-end drugs early in… »
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