It’s official. For the first time in Canadian history, the country is now linked by all-weather road from Atlantic to Pacific, and now to the Arctic. Yesterday the final 137 kilometre section of an all-weather road linking Inuvik in the… »
Highlights / Year: 2017
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian scientists help discover 8,000-year-old wine in Georgia
A team of University of Toronto archaeologists has contributed to the discovery of the oldest chemical evidence of wine found anywhere in the world, according to a recently published research study. The discovery at two excavation sites in southeastern Georgia,… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
A faster emergency room analysis that could save lives around the world
It’s called “The Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule” and it was years in development. To most people it sounds incomprehensible, but it will save some people with a brain aneurysm from a debilitating injury, or even death. Dr Jeffrey Perry (MD… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Ban autonomous killer robots, urge AI researchers
Members of Canada’s artificial intelligence (AI) community want Canada to spearhead a movement to ban autonomous killing machines. Government representatives, advocacy groups and academics from around the world are meeting in Geneva this week to discuss so-called killer robots. Machines… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, International, Society
Environmental group in campaign to save vaquita porpoise
Rarest and most endangered marine mammal in the world The Sea Shepherd conservation organisation, founded by Canadian Paul Watson, is back in the Gulf of California in it’s ongoing effort to save the almost extinct vacquita porpoise. Two of Sea… »
End government pay debacle, employee misery, demands union
It has been almost two years, the Canadian government has spent tens of millions of dollars and still, as many as 330,000 civil servants are being overpaid, underpaid or not paid at all, says one of Canada’s biggest civil service… »
Canada’s workforce faces troubling slide in literacy, numeracy: study
Even as Canadians achieve higher education levels, their literacy and numeracy skills show a troubling decline, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. The report by Parisa Mahboubi, a senior policy analyst at the independent research institute,… »
French skier may have died after hitting a tree
An early investigation has revealed details about the accident that caused the death of France’s elite skier David Poisson on Monday in Canada. Poisson was training with along with other competitors from around the world at the resort of Nakiska… »
EgyptAir signs letter of intent for up to 24 Bombardier CS300s
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has signed a letter of intent with EgyptAir for the purchase of up to 24 of the Montreal-based company’s larger C Series aircraft, the CS300, the Canadian plane-maker announced at the Dubai Airshow Wednesday. The transportation giant said the deal… »
Highlights, International, Politics, Society
Canada expected to finally announce peacekeeping contribution
In 2016, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would proceed with his election promise of 2015, that Canada would re-engage with U.N. peacekeeping. He promised a contribution of 600 Peacekeepers and 150 police officers to U.N. missions but… »
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