Ellie Black, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, came to the gymnastics world championships in Montreal as one of Canada’s best, now she wants to take her place as one of the world’s best. The 22-year old, whose favourite apparatus is the vault,… »
Highlights / Year: 2017
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
Nobel Peace Prize acknowledges anti-nuclear movement
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today, to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, (ICAN). It is a grassroots movement operating in over 100 counties, that helped lobby for the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. “They’re not… »
Highlights, Immigration & Refugees, International
ISIS supporter acquitted, but still detained as a threat
A man living in Fort St John, British Columbia was acquitted in September of charges of counselling acts of violence on behalf of a terrorist organisation, encouraging murder, assault and mischief for terrorist purposes. Othman Hamdan had been posting pro-Daesh… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Government launches new military suicide-prevention strategy
Canada’s government says it’s going to take a full look at how many veterans take their own lives after leaving the military. The comprehensive examination is part of a National Defence and Veteran Affairs Canada’s suicide prevention strategy released on… »
Sixties Scoop: Government to give $800 million to aboriginals
“The Sixties Scoop was a dark painful chapter in Canada’s history. The survivors have identified the loss of language and culture, and therefore their identity, as the greatest harm. The creation of a foundation will directly address the need for… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Fewer than 1% of asylum seekers crossing illegally into Canada have a serious criminal background, border official
There have been large pockets filled with consternation about who is getting into getting into Canada these days–certainly since last weekend’s so-called terror attack in Edmonton that saw a police officer stabbed and four pedestrians injured during a high-speed police… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Hussen says 1200 Yazidis will be in Canada by year’s end
The government says it has settled nearly 800 Yazidi women and girls and others fleeing atrocities committed by militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen shared the figures in the House of Commons… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
Inuit say ‘nyet’ to toxic splash from Russian rockets
Inuit in Canada and Greenland are calling on Ottawa and Copenhagen to demand the postponement of a Russian rocket launch scheduled to deliver a European Space Agency satellite to orbit next week and look for alternative launch vehicles that use… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Why are so many leaves still green?
Autumn this year is a little different in many regions of eastern Canada. Leaves just beginning to turn colours earlier this week at the Morgan Aboretum, near Montreal. © CBC/Navneet Pall The leaves. that would normally be vivid in the bright… »
NHL season off to a great start
The National Hockey League (NHL) regular season got underway last night with some amazing results in two Canadian games. The Edmonton Oilers,with the latest hockey phenomenon, team captain Connor McDavid showing his stuff, beat their provincial rivals, the Calgary Flames 3-0,… »
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