Eighteen-year old Jeremy Cook was shot and killed after tracking down a cellphone he had left in a taxi in London, Ontario early on Sunday morning. New technology enables people to find their smartphones, laptops or other electronic devices. Multiple… »
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Vet withdraws candidacy over ‘repressive’ law
“I find that (anti-terror law) C-51 is going to really affect our Charter of Rights and Freedoms or in some cases, negate the Charter and I find that very offensive,” said military veteran David MacLeod as he withdrew his candidacy… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Report has harsh words for Tories regarding dissent
Canada’s Conservative Party government is being accused–again–of stifling dissent, including the “muzzling” of scientists and public servants and portraying First Nations and aboriginal groups as threats to national security. The charges are contained in a report commissioned by a coalition… »
Number of Canadian children schooled at home is growing
Fewer Canadian children are facing the challenges of those dreary, pre-dawn winter school bus rides rides, the emotional ravages of dealing with peer pressure in the cafeteria and maintaining their concentration when fellow students act out in class A new… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
The secrets of the seas revealed by their inhabitants
What if marine animals could talk? Tell us where they have been, how they interact with one another, how their habitat is changing… Well, they can. In a paper just published in the journal Science, researchers affiliated with the Nova… »
Growing number of Ontario workers in low-wage, precarious jobs: report
A report by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives comes to a grim conclusion about Ontario’s labour market: it is increasingly becoming precarious. And the think tank calls the changes that have taken place in the last 17 years… »
Economy, Health, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Amanda Lindhout speaks following arrest of alleged Somali kidnapper
Amanda Lindhout took three days to respond to the news one of her alleged kidnappers from Somalia had been arrested in Ottawa. But her reaction upon hearing the news, was instant. “I wasn’t sitting down and I literally collapsed on the… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Bloomsday celebrations under way around the world
Bloomsday, June 16th, the day James Joyce‘s character, Leopold Bloom, in the infamous novel ‘Ulysses’, takes a walk around Dublin, has become a literary holiday celebrated in many places around the world. This year, along with Dublin, Ireland, where it… »
Historic Canadian company goes global
Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) is growing beyond its North American base by buying German department store chain Galeria Kaufhof and Inno, its Belgian subsidiary. The company was established in 1670 and played a major part in Canadian history by trading… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Indigenous, Society
Mercury levels still rising near native community
Levels of the poisonous metal mercury are rising in lakes where the aboriginal people of Grassy Narrows, Ontario continue to catch fish which they eat, according to a new study. Symptoms of mercury poisoning abound People who live there exhibit… »
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