Norman Strickland said he “was really, really scared” when five or six orca whales surrounded and bumped his small boat off Canada’s eastern shore on Saturday. The boat is 5.5 metres long and the whales, he estimates, were over four… »
Lynn Desjardins
Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Lynn has dedicated her working life to journalism. After decades in the field, she still believes journalism to be a pillar of democracy and she remains committed to telling stories she believes are important or interesting. Lynn loves Canada and embraces all seasons: skiing, skating, and sledding in winter, hiking, swimming and playing tennis in summer and running all the time. She is a voracious consumer of Canadian literature, public radio programs and classical music. Family and friends are most important. Good and unusual foods are fun. She travels when possible and enjoys the wilderness.
Canada ranks first in driving deaths linked to alcohol
Among 19 rich countries, Canada has the highest percentage of road deaths caused by alcohol impairment, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Overall, road fatalities are down in Canada, but 34 per cent of them are related to… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Development plans for national parks alarm watchdog
A major conservation group says there has been a dramatic shift from protecting national parks to developing them for tourism and this, at the expense of the very nature they were created to preserve. Conservationists ‘very worried’ “That has us… »
Firefighters ‘lives to be shortened,’ says union leader
Municipal firefighters who battled the massive Fort McMurray wildfire in the western province of Alberta in May are being screened for health problems, reports Canadian Press (CP). Some of the 180 crew members have developed persistent coughs, says Nick Waddington,… »
Eastern Canadian catches iceberg break-up on video
The Atlantic coast of Canada is one of the best places in the world to view icebergs floating down from the Arctic. A few residents of St. Anthony in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador got to see a piece… »
Western province will phase in $15 minimum wage
Alberta has announced that it will phase in a minimum hourly wage of $15 by 2018. Minimums vary from a low of ten dollars and change in seven provinces to the top minimum wage of $13 in the northern territory of Nunavut.… »
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Part of major salmon habitat now protected
Canada’s largest conservation group has acquired and will protect 850 hectares forest, river frontage and salmon pools in the world-famous Miramichi River System. The Miramichi is the number one producer of Atlantic salmon in North America and people travel great… »
Consumers plan to spend less this summer
Most Canadians take holidays in the summer months of July and August and many say that is when they are more likely to make unplanned and impulsive spending decisions on entertainment and fun. Summer vacation is a time when Canadians… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Twin babies who sleep together cry less: study
A Canadian neonatal nurse has won an award for her work which includes a study on the benefits of putting twins to sleep together. Kathryn Hayward is an assistant professor at the Dalhousie University nursing school. Seeing twin infants when… »
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Found: Canadian schooner that sank 150 years ago
A team of U.S. explorers has found the wreck of the Royal Albert that sank in 1886 in Lake Ontario near Fair Haven, New York. Lake Ontario is one of five Great Lakes on the Canada-U.S. border at the heart… »
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