The dismantling of Canada’s public radio and television broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada should stop, there should be a moratorium on budget cuts, and a federal inquiry should be started into the management of the public broadcaster. These are the demands of the… »
Highlights / Month: April 2014
Official Opposition wants answers from Canada’s federal police, re PM’s former chief of staff
Canada’s Official Opposition NDP party wants to know why the federal police force, the RCMP, has decided to drop criminal charges against Nigel Wright, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former Chief of Staff. In a letter sent April 24, to the head… »
Cruel winter: whale and porpoise deaths in pack-ice
Two communities on the western coast of the Atlantic province of Newfoundland have a huge, and sad, problem to deal with. Red dot indicates town of Trout River on the edge of Gros Morne National Park. © google The bodies of… »
Sugar daddies sought to pay school loans
Some Canadians may be shocked to learn that there are university and college students who going on dates with strangers in order to finance their education. Seeking Arrangement calls itself “Canada’s No. 1 sugar daddy dating website” and claims to… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Wi-Fi coming to national parks
Protected national parks in Canada are often wild and remote with no internet or cellphone service, but that is about to change. The department responsible, Parks Canada, is requesting tenders from contractors to install wireless Internet access at up to… »
Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, Society
Anniversary of the deadliest landslide in Canada
In the wee hours of April 29, 1903, the small coal mining town of Frank Alberta lay sleeping at the foot of Turtle Mountain. The mountain had been making rumbling and cracking noises for some time, but who was to… »
Blockades, economic action threatened if Indigenous education bill not scrapped
A number of Indigenous First Nations leaders say they will target the Canadian economy if the Harper government doesn’t scrap proposed legislation for Indigenous education. Chief Gordon Peters of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians is raising the possibility… »
Government-dominated committee sets limits on election bill changes
The ruling Conservative government majority on a Canadian Commons committee has set a three-day deadline for redrafting legislation that will change election laws. A time frame so tight the Official Opposition NDP party is calling it a farce. Joe Preston, the… »
More Canadians to suffer chronic pain
One in five Canadians experience pain daily or four out of seven days a week, according to estimates. That number grows to one-third of those who are over sixty years old, an age group which is growing in Canada population.… »
Canadian Special forces to get new vehicles.
The Canadian military, facing major budget cutbacks, will get at least some new vehicles soon. Analysts say the military budget cuts have been responsible for delays in shipbuilding, army vehicle purchases, aircraft purchases, and other equipment. However, the Canadian Special… »
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