Canada is expecting six thousand Syrian refugees to arrive in the next few months and some support groups say they are better prepared to welcome them. So far, Canada has resettled 30,136. Chris Friesen of the Immigrant Services Society of… »
Highlights / Year: 2016
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, International
More bad news: Fertile invasive Carp in the Great Lakes
Yet another of the invasive Asian carp species has been found in the Great Lakes. Commercial fishermen in Lake Erie netted a grass carp earlier this month near Point Pelee. The carp was just under a metre long and weighed… »
International, Politics, Society
A plea for life from Taliban-captured couple in Afghanistan
A newly released Taliban video shows a Canadian man and his American wife pleading for their lives in Afghanistan. Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman say they and their two children will be killed unless the Kabul government stops executing captured… »
Economy, International, Society
Canada Post and workers agree on tentative deal
Following marathon bargaining sessions over the past week, it now appears all but certain that Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have avoided a possible service disruption that has loomed for months. The two sides reached a… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Politics, Society
Some hard truths about Canadians and our treatment of farm animals
We Canadians like to pat ourselves on the back (quietly, of course) about how civilized we are (behaviour at a lot of hockey games excepted). Over 750 million farm animals animals are killed for food every year, virtually all of… »
Chinese TV personality accuses Canada’s tourism body of censorship
Canada’s national tourism marketing body is denying allegations by a Chinese TV star that it pressured him to remove an episode discussing the plight of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and Quebec separatism days before the first official visit to China by… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Cannabinoids and night vision: surprising finding
It’s another somewhat serendipitous finding. Researchers in Montreal and in the US were studying the effects of marijuana (cannabinoids actually) on brain development in tadpoles and found surprisingly that it actually improved the test-animals night vision. Edward Ruthazer (PhD) is… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Global warming; greenhouse gas and breeding a better cow
In terms of its greenhouse gas effect, each molecule of methane is equal to about 20 to 25 molecules of CO2. Cows in their digestion emit a lot of methane; out of both ends of the animal. Canadian researchers are… »
Economy, Highlights, International, Internet, Science & Technology
International Mine Rescue Competition: update
It was, as always, an exciting time for the over two-dozen international teams who came from around the world to compete in the “olympics” of mine rescue. Some 27 teams from 13 nations came to Sudbury, Ontario for the competition.… »
Health, International, Society
Score another gold medal for Man Kaur
Lagging behind the other runners in the 100-metre race at the Americas Masters Games in Vancouver on Monday, Man Kaur held her form and never broke stride. Man Kaur is helped by her 78-year-old son, Gurdev Singh, as she takes… »
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