The pandemic has put the spotlight on health care and prescription drugs, and a new survey has found almost one-quarter of Canadian households struggle to pay for prescription drugs. Canada is the only developed country in the world that has… »
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Canadian headlines
Environment & Animal Life, International
Right whales face extinction unless governments act, says charity
Oceana Canada is calling on the governments of Canada and the United States to take immediate action to save right whales from extinction. A new estimate from NOAA fisheries finds the population has dropped from 400 two years to 360.… »
Federal apology demanded for actions in Quebec 50 years ago.
Today the separatist Bloc Quebecois will table a motion in Parliament seeking to have the government apologize to Quebec for having invoked the War Measures Act in 1970 in the mainly French-speaking province. The Act, invoked for the first and… »
Economy, Immigration & Refugees, Society
Ottawa wants to improve living conditions for temporary foreign workers
The federal government is launching wide-ranging consultations with provinces and territories, various industries and worker support groups aimed at improving working and living conditions for tens of thousands of temporary foreign workers in Canada who’ve been hit hard by the… »
Economy, Indigenous, Politics, Society
Indigenous rights: A new current in the Nova Scotia lobster dispute
Local First Nation says Sipekne’katik did not consult them before launching disputed fishery The ongoing dispute over Indigenous fishing rights in Nova Scotia has seen a new player emerge to add to the troubled waters. This time however, it might… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Watch out for the bears while viewing salmon, warns city
The western city of Coquitlam encourages people to go out and watch the salmon run but it warns people to stay away from the bears. Coquitlam, a suburb of Vancouver, is nestled in wilderness and bears don’t respect city limits.… »
Arts & Entertainment, Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Museum of Nature holds a virtual open house
The Canadian Museum of Nature usually holds an open house of its facility in Gatineau near the nation’s capital every October but, because of the pandemic, this year there will be a series of virtual tours instead. The video series… »
Canada Post stamp celebrates country’s first female battlefield artist
Canada Post is releasing a new stamp celebrating the work of Mary Riter Hamilton whose paintings and drawings of First World War battlefields in France and Belgium earned her the title of Canada’s first unofficial female battlefield artist. The new… »
Bank of Canada: long term low rate
It was not unexpected but at the regular Bank of Canada rate announcement bank Governor Tiff Macklem said the central bank would hold its current low 0.25 per cent rate, and would not go into negative territory. At the press… »
Sales of cancer medicines in Canada nearly tripled over past decade: report
Sales of cancer-fighting medicines in Canada have nearly tripled over the past decade, reaching $3.9 billion in 2019, according to a report by the federal Patented Medicine Prices Review Board. According to the Oncology Medicines in Canada chartbook released by… »
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