Yet another group of academics, this time 465 Canadian professors, have signed a open letter voicing their concern about the damage to democracy if the Canadian government’s proposed Fair Elections Act is passed. Published in the Globe and Mail newspaper… »
Highlights / Month: April 2014
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Keeping science simple and short, (i.e. 3 minutes or less)
You’ve been working intensely for three or four years in your particular scientific field, becoming very comfortable speaking in very complicated and arcane scientific terminology to others in that field. Now, try to explain all that technical and complex work… »
Bighorn sheep horn may be a record-breaker
A wildlife officer in western Canada thinks he may have found a record-breaking set of horns from a bighorn sheep. These animals are plentiful in the province of Alberta and are a big draw for trophy hunters who will pay… »
Arts & Entertainment, Environment & Animal Life, Society
Is it art or…. ?
In an ever ongoing debate about public art, the western city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has entered the fray. A resident there has put a black tarp over a work of temporary public art in protest, saying it’s an improvement. The… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Informed seniors rethink use of sleeping pills
Seniors who get information about the risks of taking sleeping pills go on to ask questions about them and are more likely to quit, according to a recent study. Drugs like Valium, Xanax and others in a class called benzodiazepines… »
‘Essential services’ designation an attempt to take away right to strike, says union
A decision by the Canadian government to designate thousands more employees of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) as essential is an attempt to take away the employees’ right to strike, according to the union representing them. “Many of these… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
More citizen’s personal data stolen from government agency
It’s another case of personal information being lost of stolen from government computers. The latest is the theft of a government computer from a car in St John, in the eastern maritime province of New Brunswick The laptop contained the… »
Truth and Reconciliation Commission faces huge new pile of documents
With little more than a year to finish its report, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the physical and emotional abuses of Indigenous children in Canada’s Indian Residential School system, is about to receive tens of thousands of boxes of more… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Activists reveal inhumane conditions at veal factory farm
A Canadian animal rights group has released another disturbing undercover video of a commercial farming operation.. After undercover videos at commercial pig farms and battery egg production, the group sent a member to a commercial veal production operation in the… »
‘Résistance’ is Quebec art biennial’s theme this year
“Resistance… is exceptionally important at this particular moment in time…[of] mass protests, financial downfall, chronic recession ,” says Vicky Chainey Gagnon, the curator of the 2014 edition of the Quebec City biennial, Manif d’art 7. The month-long exhibition of contemporary… »
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