A small town in western Canada has become the country’s first official “dark sky community”. Named last year, the town celebrated this month during its annual Equinox festival with a number of nighttime activities. These included special guest speaker, Canadian… »
Highlights / Year: 2016
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Climate change could expose Cold War relic and its toxic contents
It sounds like something from the X-Files: an abandoned top-secret nuclear weapons program, buried deep under Greenland’s ice sheet comes back to haunt humanity with its toxic contents. But Camp Century is not a figment of Hollywood’s imagination but a… »
Montreal language school accused of defrauding foreign students
It bills itself as “one of Montreal’s oldest language schools” but College Platon located in the city’s trendy Plateau neighbourhood is facing accusations of defrauding foreign students, according to reports by Radio-Canada’s French-language investigative show La Facture. Over the last… »
Government failing to protect privacy of citizens, says watchdog
Canada’s privacy commissioner says the government has not properly assessed the impacts on citizens’ privacy since it passed its sweeping anti-terrorist law incorporating Bill C-51. In his annual report, Commissioner Daniel Therrien expressed surprise that many government agencies did not examine how… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Canada, and the world’s, water crisis Pt-3
Who owns the water? Trans-national giants buy up water rights for very little, and make enormous profit while putting the future supplies in danger. Maude Barlow’s new book looks at what is happening in Canada and around the world. It’s… »
Vancouver has highest risk housing bubble will burst
The Swiss bank UBS has rated Canada’s western city of Vancouver as having world’s greatest risk of a sudden downward correction in its housing market. However, the assessment came before a new tax was imposed that cooled the housing market… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Blackberry bails from making smartphones
The Canadian high-tech firm BlackBerry is considered by many to be the father of the smartphone industry. At one time ubiquitous among business people, and the “hip”. BlackBerry had been losing market share as other manufacturers created more attractive technologies.… »
Newspapers seek government help to go digital
Several newspapers in the province of Quebec have banded together to ask that the government set up a fund to help them shift to digital, reports Canadian Press. The newspapers are suffering from a steep decline in revenues, because so… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Update: More rough water for Bay of Fundy tidal energy project
For decades people have thought of how to harness the potential renewable power of the Bay of Fundy tides in Canada’s east coast. These are the highest tides in the world, and as such extremely powerful as they advance and… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Society
Montreal passes controversial pit bull ban
The City of Montreal today joined a growing list of Canadian municipalities that have banned pit bulls or pit-bull-type dogs. City council voted in favour of the controversial changes to its animal control bylaw, brought in following a fatal dog… »
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