Actually the title is a rather misleading as a British Columbia company is recycling literally tonnes of waste food into useful animal feed and fertilizer every day, and they do it with maggots. It is said that large amounts of… »
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Canadian headlines
Time to rethink mental-health rules for veterans’ families–ombudsman
Canada’s veterans ombudsman says the federal government needs to rethink restrictions that limit mental-health support for veterans’ families. In a report released Tuesday, Nishika Jardine, who was appointed last fall, suggests the new restrictions have harmed many veterans’ families–who face… »
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Will he or won’t he? Biden, Canada, and the XL pipeline
A rocky start to Canada-U.S. relations? TC Energy suspends work on pipeline Incoming U.S President Joe Biden has said one of his first acts will be to revoke approval for the Keystone XL pipeline expansion project. This has caused great… »
Economy, Health, Politics, Society
Night curfew to curb COVID-19: survey
On January 8, Canada’s second most populous province, and one of the two hardest hit by the SARS-CoV2 virus, instituted a month-long nighttime curfew. The measure by the province of Quebec will be reviewed and either ended or renewed on… »
Conservative leader to kick out former rival over campaign donation scandal
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says he plans to expel former leadership rival Derek Sloan from the Conservative caucus and prevent him from running under the party’s banner in the future after it emerged that the Ontario legislator received a campaign… »
Health, International, Politics, Society
Trudeau and Merkel discuss problems with global vaccination efforts
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his German counterpart, Chancellor Angela Merkel, discussed on Monday efforts to secure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and treatments, as the UN health body warned that “the world is on the brink of… »
Contemporary music festival to go ‘Beyond Borders’
Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the 10th edition of the Montreal/New Musics festival (MNM) will be held online from February 18 to 28th, 2021. The festival promises to offer “an unprecedented online sound odyssey…(that will) reveal new and unprecedented sounds with… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
McGill launches multicultural mental health initiative
Canadian researchers have launched a unique online resource to help people of diverse backgrounds cope with mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tool seeks to improve the quality and access to mental health services for diverse cultural and… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canada clears Boeing MAX-8 for flight
Almost two years after a pair of deadly crashes of Boeing’s new 737 ‘Max-8’ jets resulting in grounding the Boeing 737 Max planes around the world, Canada has given the go-ahead for the planes to resume operations in Canadian airspace.… »
Canada takes command of another NATO maritime task force
Barely two years after Commodore Josée Kurtz made NATO maritime history by becoming the first woman to command a multinational naval task force, Canada is once again leading another allied naval task force. Commodore Bradley Peats of the Royal Canadian… »
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