Scientists studying how climate change affects Arctic glaciers are increasingly seeing some “weird things happening,” says a Canadian researcher. University of Calgary geography professor Brian Moorman who studies glaciers in the Canadian territory of Nunavut says in the past few… »
Highlights / Year: 2016
Health, International, Society
Pedophile Graham James released on full parole
Graham James, a convicted pedophile who was on day parole for the last eight months in the Montreal region, was granted full parole yesteday. The parole board cited the progress James made during this time, and that he has shown… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Politics, Society
Surveillance billboard markets ‘Snowden’ film
In a clever marketing move, an ad agency set up a billboard and showed surveillance images on a busy Toronto street to illustrate the privacy issues raised in the new movie called “Snowden.” The film based on National Security Agency… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Highlights, International
International leaders meet to fight AIDS, TB, Malaria
A major gathering of world leaders is taking place in Montreal It goes under the less than thrilling name of the “Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria” in an effort to end the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Society
Parts of stunning coastal rainforest conserved
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has acquired and will conserve four parcels of private land in western Canada which is home to ancient trees and rare wildlife. The projects include 185 hectares of waterfront lands within the Great Bear… »
History: Sept 16 1974- RCMP gender barrier overturned
They were men, strong and tough, able to endure the harshest of conditions, but men, no women (at least on paper). For over 100 years, remote parts of Canada had been patrolled and even explored to some extent by members… »
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Kevin Garratt home after 2014 detention in China
Kevin Garratt is home, on Canadian soil, after more than two years of detention in China. Chinese authorities had detained Kevin and his wife Julia, in August of 2014. Garratt was indicted by prosecutors in Dandong, a city on the North… »
Indigenous, International, Society
Ungava Gin: apologies for cultural appropriation and insensitivity
Ungava Gin, named for the region in northeastern Quebec, issued an apology yesterday, following the objections of many people to the company’s branding and marketing. Stephen Puskas, a young Inuk originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories who now makes his home in… »
Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Prayer replaced by ‘Mindful Moment’ in Saskatchewan
The sound of the Lord’s Prayer recited over the public address system at the start of each day, has now been replaced with a silence that allows students what’s described as a “Mindful Moment”. The change took place this new… »
Child star charms Toronto Film Festival
The popular nine-year-old move star Jacob Tremblay returned to the Toronto Film Festival for the premier of his newest film “Burn Your Maps.” Vancouver-born Tremblay plays a young Chicago boy who thinks he is a Mongolian goat herder. The fantasy… »
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