Crystal Serenity’s 32-day voyage across the forbidding Canadian Arctic was the most significant single event in the Arctic in 2016, while Donald Trump’s election could take the U.S. Arctic policy into uncharted waters in 2017, says a prominent Arctic expert. The… »
Highlights / Year: 2016
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Dozens of eagles on B.C. power lines are electrocuted
Nearly four dozen birds of prey–perched on power poles while looking for food–have been electrocuted on British Columbia’s Lower Mainland Just two of the 47 birds survived and it is unclear if they will recover enough to be released to… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Society
Whew, that William Gibb is one tough dude!
Stop me if you heard this one. Bet you haven’t. Kind of an Alberta story. It all happened Boxing Day in Whitecourt when William Gibb, his two dogs, and his brother went to meet a friend for coffee at a… »
Health, International, Society
The 2016 year in Canadian sports: let’s hear it for the Olympics.
There was no Leicester City or Chicago Cubs. Not even a Cleveland really. The year in Canadian sports ran pretty much true to form. Except that this was an Olympics year so, in fact, it didn’t. Sidney Crosby had a… »
Religion in the workplace
Religion in the workplace is still regarded as a taboo subject. The underlying fear is that employers see religion as a potential source for conflict and lost productivity. KPMG, a multinational audit, tax and advisory firm, sees it differently. Toronto… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous
Indigenous community voices support for oil development
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline has been vehemently opposed by many Indigenous groups in Canada, but there are also Aboriginal voices that strongly support the oilpatch. Chief Jim Boucher, from Fort McKay in northeastern Alberta, is one of them. His community… »
Women swimmers are Canada’s team of the year
Canada’s female swimming team has won The Canadian Press team of the year award. The team won six medals at the Rio Olympics in August and seven more at the short-course event in Windsor, Ontario earlier this month. Their bronze… »
Where are the Toronto Blue Jays headed? It’s tough to tell
The dead of winter is normally the time when many Canadians gaze longingly forward to the summer with baseball on their minds and the Toronto Blue Jays in their hearts. Not this year. The silence has been deafening. Fans have… »
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Wide range of marine life washing up dead in Nova Scotia
In what is being described as a “very striking and terrible scene,” thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shores of Nova Scotia and marine life experts have no explanation. Last month, residents of Digby County began finding… »
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Islam and islamophobia in Canada: news and reports from RCI
Canada and Muslims: “They’re not the problem, they’re partners against radicalization, A new survey of Canadian attitudes towards the Muslim community shows a slight majority see them as partners in the fight against radicalization, and not part of the problem.… »
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