An Indigenous post-secondary organization in the province of Ontario has launched an app for people who want to learn the Mohawk language. Indigenous languages losing ground rapidly Census figures indicate that the number of people who spoke an Indigenous language… »
Highlights / Year: 2017
Striking college teachers forced back to work
About half-a-million college students in the province of Ontario will be able to return to class Tuesday after the government passed a law forcing striking staff back to work. Some 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians walked off the job… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
the LINK Online: Sun. Nov. 19, 2017
Your hosts, Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude, and Marc (video of show at bottom) There is an international coalition campaigning to ban fully autonomous weapons © CBC They are killers, and they operate and make decisions by themselves on when and where and… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Parents influence pain felt after children’s vaccination: study
A long-term study of children shows that the amount of pain and distress felt by preschoolers after vaccination is strongly related to how their parents help them cope. Researchers at York University in Toronto found that preschoolers can cope with… »
International, Politics, Society
Conversation with the Canadian General fighting Daesh
Canada has been with the Coalition forces to defeat Daesh in Iraq since 2014. This year Brigadier-General Daniel MacIsaac took over command of the Canadian contingent. I spoke to him from a Canadian base in Kuwait about the mission and… »
UN and humanitarian agencies sound alarm on Saudi-led blockade of Yemen
The United Nations and humanitarian agencies working in war-torn Yemen are sounding the alarm over the continuing blockade of much of the country’s air, sea and land entry points by the Western-supported coalition of Gulf states, calling on them to… »
Ottawa announces $327.6M to fight gangs and gun violence
The federal government will spend $327.6 million over five years and $100 million annually thereafter to crack down on gun crime and criminal gang activities, Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale announced Friday. Goodale made the announcement in Surrey, B.C. — a city that… »
Canada’s inflation in October cooled by smaller increases in gas prices
The annual pace of inflation slowed down in October thanks smaller price increases at the gas pumps, as refineries in the United States resumed normal operations following hurricane Harvey, which forced production shutdowns in Texas. Statistics Canada said Friday the… »
Canada alarmed by dissolution of Cambodia’s main opposition party
Ottawa is sounding the alarm over the future of Cambodia’s democratic reforms after the country’s Supreme Court ordered the main opposition party to be dissolved on Thursday, dealing one of the most crushing blows yet to democratic aspirations in the… »
Famous deer to have hammock tangle removed
This story started in August when a deer got his antlers caught in a purple hammock in the western town of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Marcedés Mack saw him and called police for help. Officers cut away part of the hammock… »
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