While the U.S. president continues to deny climate change is caused by human activity, 15 state governors are strengthening their efforts to combat global warming. The bipartisan U.S. Climate Alliance made an agreement with Canada and Mexico today to create… »
Highlights / Year: 2017
No bathroom break so murder confession not admissible
In an important ruling, a judge in the city of Red Deer, Alberta ruled that a confession to a triple murder is not admissible as evidence in the suspect’s trial because the police did not let him go to the… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Self-driving vehicles still safer, says consultant
A collision between a self-driving shuttle and a truck in Las Vegas, U.S. last week made headlines, but a Canadian consultant says autonomous vehicles are still safer than those driven by humans. The collision was blamed on human error. ‘Wonderful,… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
International research into global warming and plant change
Many people are noticing that plants seem to be changing their cycle, and flowering and producing fruit earlier than in the past. This seems to be a reaction to global warming in which the summers appear to be arriving earlier.… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
Carbon emissions up, ‘time is running out,’ warn scientists
After being stable for three consecutive years, carbon dioxide emissions are up in 2017, reports an international team of scientists. The findings from the Global Carbon Project will be presented to the UN climate change conference going on now in… »
Montreal vandals strike on Remembrance Day
Once again vandals deface a cenotaph, and the statue to Canada’s founder. While cenotaph vandalism happens on occasion across Canada, and elsewhere, it is often merely taggers. What is particularly galling however is when it is a politicised message and… »
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The LINK Online, Sun. Nov 12, 2017
Your hosts, Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude and Marc (Video of show at bottom) Canadian gunners struggle to free an 18pdr field gun which has sunk into mud © Painted by Lieutenant Alfred Theodore Joseph Bastien It is often cited as the worst… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society, Your Columns
Artistic documentary: Remembering Vimy
Historical century old military films presented in a new and fascinating way. This year marks the centennial of a number of incredible yet tragically costly Canadian victories in the First World War. Canada had also sent photo and film units… »
Consider livestock emissions at climate change talks, say activists
Delegates attending the World Climate Change Conference in Bonn this month are being asked to consider the contribution that livestock make to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). As they digest food, livestock emit methane gases contribute an estimated 15 per cent… »
Economy, International, Politics
Pacific nations agree on ‘core elements’ of new TPP trade deal
Canada and the 10 other Trans-Pacific Partnership countries reached an agreement on Friday on “core elements” of the free trade pact, pledging to adhere to strict labour and environment standards, hours after the talks nearly collapsed earlier in the day.… »
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