In the end, it wasn’t the blustery winter or sweltering summer days that did it, it was the combination of city regulations and age that finally forced a downtown Montreal icon into retirement. Cyrille Esteve, aka “Spoonman,” says he’s ready… »
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Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Drone strikes commercial plane, a first in Canada
A collision between a drone and a commercial aircraft approaching Quebec City’s Jean Lesage International Airport last week has drawn the wrath of Canada’s usually placid federal transport minister, Marc Garneau. “This should not have happened, that drone should not… »
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The LINK Online Sun. Oct.15, 2015
Your hosts, Lynn, Marc, Terry (video of show at bottom) 2013: A worker collects pieces of shark fins dried on the rooftop of a factory building in Hong Kong A new stody found twelve species for sale that are banned… »
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Book: The World’s Most travelled Man
Mike Spencer Bown is from Alberta Canada. Even as a young man exploring the wide-open spaces of that prairie province and nearby Rocky Mountains was not enough. Nor was he one to stay put. He has been an “explorer” if… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
New Canadian study suggests that trees can play a part in a longer life
There are a million reasons to love trees, those perennial plants that rise from the ground, come in all shapes and sizes, whose branches grasp at the sky. Toronto High Park’s cherry trees in the spring. They may do a… »
Highlights, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
New fascinating chapter to Newfoundland ancient history
New DNA testing dispels belief of genetic connection between ancient peoples It was a tragic chapter in Canadian history. An ancient aboriginal people, the Beothuk had lived on the huge island of Newfoundland for about 1,000 years. They disappeared however,… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
European satellite launched into orbit despite Inuit concerns over toxic splash
The European Space Agency successfully launched its Sentinel-5P satellite Friday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, despite concerns by Canadian and Greenlandic Inuit that discarded parts of the rocket fuelled by a highly toxic propellant could contaminate key Arctic… »
Company faces lawsuit over remote rail line
The Canadian government is threatening to sue the owner of a broken rail line which serves the remote community of Churchill, Manitoba, reports Canadian Press. Denver-based OmniTRAX has 30 days to fix the track which was washed out by flooding… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Vancouver symposium seeks solution for drop in Orca numbers
As the resident killer whale population continues to dwindle in West Coast waters off southern British Columbia and northern Washington state, experts gathered in Vancouver this week to try to come up with a plan to halt the decline. Studies… »
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Colonialism still present in Arctic, says premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Despite improved relations between the federal government and Canada’s Indigenous Peoples, northerners still get excluded from political decisions that impact their lands and livelihoods, says Bob McLeod, premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories. “Colonialism is not entirely absent,”… »
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