Snow, or the first “measurable snow” will be making its debut in southern Ontario and Quebec tomorrow and continue over the maritime provinces through the weekend. A person makes their way to a streetcar as snow flies through the air… »
Highlights / Year: 2017
Doctors seek better data on maternal deaths
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is calling for uniform data collection on why women die or get seriously ill after childbirth and wants it to include information about drug use, suicide, violence and accidents. Doctors are… »
Parental Leave extended in time, not money
Parental leave from the workplace, following the birth or adoption of a new child, is being extended in Canada, from 12 months to 18. The extension however, is one of time, not money, and only at the federal level. In… »
Health, Highlights, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Cancer detection: Canadian team wins international award
The best inventions are effective, simple in design, easy to use, and being simple, not prohibitively expensive. That’s what a team of recent electrical biomedical engineering graduates of McMaster University students have come up with. They developed a concept for… »
Charitable giving declines in Canada: report
Taking inflation into account, Canadians donated seven per cent less to charities in 2015 than they did in 2006, according to a new report. That represented a drop of about 600 million dollars. The proportion of Canadian families which made… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, International, Politics, Society
Pipeline delays; deliberate? Who’s to blame
The Trans-Mountain pipeline project to nearly triple its capacity of oil from Alberta to the Burnaby is once again becoming heated. Kinder-Morgan, the U.S. company that owns Trans-Mountain wants to double the existing pipeline but has come under repeated opposition… »
National police train dogs with human remains
Two dog teams have been trained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to detect human remains. Several others teams will learn the program too. The RCMP is the only Canadian police force using real human remains for training purposes.… »
Internet, Science & Technology
Anthropology: new non-destructive test discovered
Often anthropologists and palaeontologists and other scientific researchers when testing for certain forensic and lifestyle factors in a specimen, examine the teeth of a specimen. Teeth have proven an excellent source of information during tests and analysis to determine such… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Urbanization can affect evolution, human health
As cities expand they are changing the evolution of some plants and animals and that could have unintended effects such as increasing the spread of disease, according to a recent study. For example, there are now mosquitoes that live in… »
Cultural divide in Canadian broadcasting: F-word OK in French
Complaint about the F-word on French media denied (! Warning STORY CONTAINS CONTROVERSIAL LANGUAGE) It’s the “F-word”. It’s been feared by broadcasters and print media since, well, forever. At least in English. Though standards have relaxed and it does on… »
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