The Canadian government was questioned Monday (December 8) in the House of Commons Question Period about its military intentions in Syria, and about it not meeting its commitments to bring in Syrian refugees. RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report. twitter.com/wojtekgwiazda
Highlights / Year: 2014
Environment & Animal Life, Politics
Could government MP’s private member’s bill be used against pipeline protestors?
A Canadian government Member of Parliament’s bill to make it an offence to interfere with “critical infrastructures” could be used to punish environmental protesters, according to lawyers contacted by journalist Justin Ling. In an article published Friday (December 5) in… »
Massacre spurred increase in female engineers
Sombre ceremonies in Montreal on Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the massacre of 14 female engineering students at the École Polytechnique. On December 6,1989, gunman Marc Lépine, specifically targeted women and left a note behind blaming feminists for ruining his… »
Province’s premier questions whether new federal law really protects sex workers
The premier of Canada’s most populous province of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne, has voiced her concern about whether new federal legislation will make sex workers in Canada safer. In a statement released Sunday (December 7) Premier Wynne said: “I am not… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
The Canadian voices behind a Christmas classic.
It’s an annual Christmas event and has been every year since that first broadcast in 1964, fifty years ago. Very few Canadians, and even fewer Americans who have watched the animated Chrismas special for five decades, realize that the voices… »
Cars, commuting, and dissatisfaction with life
It seems some people actually don’t mind the commute to work behind the wheel. Most people however do not enjoy it and a new study has found a direct connection between commuting and satisfaction with life. Indeed, the longer the… »
Ottawa jihadi urges attack on Canada
The armed group ISIS has released a video of a Canadian, radicalised convert urging fellow Muslims to carry out attacks in Canada. John Maguire was part of a circle of people from Ottawa who have either left Canada to fight… »
The most famous poem in WWI
Arguably the most famous poem of the First World War, In Flanders Fields” was penned by a distraught, but patriotic, Canadian doctor and was published for the first time on December 8, 1915. Inscription of the complete poem in a… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Who stole dead whale’s teeth?
Someone removed some of the teeth on a dead orca whale at a boat launch on Canada’s Pacific coast Vancouver Island. Orcas, also called killer whales, are listed as threatened under the Species at Risk Act and that makes it… »
Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society
Minister ‘stalls’ on species at risk: scientists
Canada has a law to protect species in difficulty but government delays mean it is not being implemented, say some scientists. The Species at Risk Act was enacted in 2002 and is supposed to be implemented in two stages. First,… »
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