Food prices will increase slightly in Canada in 2015, due in part to climate change and a growing demand for meat protein around the world, according to a report from the University of Guelph. Overall food prices in Canada should… »
Highlights / Year: 2014
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society
Oil terminal project suspended for beluga whales
The TransCanada Corp. energy company is halting work on an oil terminal in the St. Lawrence River because of concerns for the dwindling beluga whale population. On several occasions, demonstrators warned that the site of the terminal near Cacouna, Quebec… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
For once, humans didn’t do it!
Humans wiped out the dodo, and surprisingly the billions of passenger pigeons, Tasmanian tiger (dog-like marsupial), Great Auk, and several other species. New evidence however shows humans did not hunt the American mastodon to extinction. In fact, although there are… »
Opposition parties call for resignation of Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino
On Monday (December 1) Canada’s Official Opposition NDP Party and the Liberal opposition party called on Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino to resign. The minister and his ministry have been under attack for weeks for not sufficiently helping Canada’s military… »
Economy, International, Politics, Society
Business group wants to take ‘temporary’ out of Temporary Foreign Workers Program
A Canadian group representing small business owners is calling for changes in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program to “address critical shortages for small businesses while providing a clear path to permanent residence for foreign workers.” “Canada was built by people… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian-based “Enviro-net” real time ecosystem research around the world
A Canadian university is at the heart of an international monitoring system designed to provide immediate data on differing local ecosystems around the world in response to human activity and climate change. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa is a professor in the Department… »
Oil prices good news, bad news for Canada
The plunging price of oil is good news for Canadian motorists but bad news for the governments of three provinces which receive royalties from oil production. The western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are affected, as is the eastern-most province… »
International, Society, Sports
Imjin Classic hockey
A vandoos player takes a shot on net at the 2014 Imjin Classic in Ottawa. The Vandoos went on to win the game against the PPCLI 7-4 © Richard Lawrence Photography (with permission) What if they held a war, and a… »
Arts & Entertainment, International
Famed choreographer, arts ‘pioneer’ dies
Canadian choreographer Brian Macdonald died at home on Saturday at the age of 86. “Brian Macdonald made an enormous contribution to the arts in Canada,” said Antoni Cimolino, artistic director at the Stratford Festival, of which Macdonald was a member… »
Canadian Long Gun Registry initiated-and cancelled
On December 1, 1998, a new law came into effect that required all owners of rifles and shotguns (Long guns) to register their firearms with authorities. Although all (legally owned) handguns have been required to be registered since 1934, it… »
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