As of tomorrow, it will become illegal for Canadian businesses to grease the palms of foreign government officials to speed up or facilitate routine transactions such as permits, Global Affairs Canada announced today. The government said that it is repealing… »
Highlights / Year: 2017
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, Internet, Science & Technology
How warming climate will change a unique forest type
Canada’s eastern maritime provinces, notably New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince-Edward Island, and into Quebec’s Gaspe peninsula, are home to a unique forest type. A new federal study says climate change in the Maritimes may lead to a gradual reduction in… »
Cut GHG rapidly or face dangerous temperature increases: WMO
Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increased in 2016 at a pace never before seen to reach the highest level in 800,000 years, reports the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO). ‘Heading for dangerous temperature increases’ Its secretary-general Petteri Taalas said,… »
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The LINK Online, Sun. Oct 29, 2017
Your hosts, Lynn Desjardins and Levon Sevunts (Video of show at bottom) On today’s program we have items about Canada’s troubled fisheries, Indigenous parents who feel compelled to give up their children, and an outreach by young Muslims to demystify… »
Smoking kills 125 people a day, costs billions: study
The Conference of Board of Canada says smoking is responsible for a “devastating health burden” that highlights the need for the government to toughen its efforts to cut the use of tobacco. Using figures from 2012, the board’s study found… »
Understanding Canada’s feminist international development policy
The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mark its second anniversary of coming to power on Nov. 4. Trudeau made the promise of Canada’s re-engagement with the world one of the hallmarks of his new foreign policy. International… »
Canada supports united Spain amid Catalonia independence crisis, Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added his voice to those of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the European Union, reaffirming his support for “one united Spain” Friday in response to the Catalan regional parliament’s unilateral declaration of… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian to accept Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
On Aug. 6, 1945, Setsuko Nakamura was a 13-year-old middle-school student in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. That morning an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb. Setsuko Nakamura was about 1.8 kilometres from the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
A new way to predict forest wildfires developed
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have come up with a new way to predict when and where fires caused by humans are most likely to occur in the spring. Between the time that the snow melts and plants… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Senate votes to move ahead with bill dear to animal activists
Canadian animal rights activists scored what they are calling a “huge victory” in the Senate on Thursday. The upper chamber’s fisheries committee voted to move forward with Bill S-203, legislation that would ban keeping whales and dolphins in Canadian aquariums.… »
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