Less than three weeks after Canada became the fourth country in the world to adopt its version of the Magnitsky Act, Ottawa unveiled a new sanction list targeting 52 individuals in Russia, South Sudan and Venezuela suspected of corruption and… »
Highlights / Year: 2017
Canadians warned to check their credit in light of recent hacks
The government’s Financial Consumer Agency of Canada is urging Canadians to order credit reports to make sure no one is fraudulently using their personal information. There are two credit bureaus, TransUnion and Equifax, which collect information about consumers’ credit history… »
Economy, International, Politics
Canadian support for transpacific free trade deal nearly doubles: poll
As the leaders of eleven Pacific Rim countries gather in Vietnam next week to put the finishing touches on a resuscitated transpacific free trade deal, a new poll shows a surprising jump in Canadian support for the new accord. Many… »
Health, Highlights, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
You are being manipulated by your phone
You may think you’re in control, but perhaps not. The people who design apps for you phones and other electronic devices know more about us than we do. They use well-known techniques and design them into the coding of the… »
Canadians tell their stories in CBC anniversary yearbook
As part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, the public broadcaster has compiled a book of personal stories and photos from 150 individual Canadians. The hardcover book which is in both official languages, English and French,… »
Economy blows past expectations with 35K jobs in October
Canada’s economy pumped out 35,000 new jobs in October nearly twice as many as economists were forecasting, Statistics Canada reported Friday. The agency said the employment gains were driven by a rise in full-time positions which swelled by 88,700, while… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Highlights, Internet, Science & Technology
World heritage site: Rideau Canal contaminated
It is featured in virtually every tourist promotion photo of the Canadian capital, but Ottawa’s downtown section of the Rideau Canal has a secret. Testing has revealed that the canal is contaminated with toxic waste. It now joins a list… »
Premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories calls for national debate on North
Canada’s decision to block offshore oil and gas exploration in the Arctic will hurt the economy, says the premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) as he called for “an urgent national debate on the future of the Northwest Territories,” in a… »
Canadian NGO wants Ottawa to hold Colombian government accountable
As Canada pushes ahead with closer economic ties with Colombia, civil society groups are calling on Ottawa to use its growing influence with Bogota to urge Colombian authorities to speed up the implementation of key provisions of its peace accord… »
Canada calls reduced U.S. lumber duties ‘unfair’
Two Canadian cabinet ministers are calling the United States’ latest duties on Canadian softwood lumber “unfair, unwarranted and deeply troubling.” The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that most Canadian producers would pay countervailing and anti-dumping levy of 20.83 per cent,… »
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