It’s called the STAR system, an anacronym for Summation of Tests for the Analysis of Risk. It’s a sports helmet rating system devised by the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech University in the USA. The five-star rating was in development… »
Highlights / Canadian headlines
Canadian headlines
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Chicken producer investigates alleged cruelty
One of Canada’s largest chicken producers is investigating alleged animal rights violations at its slaughterhouse, one year after a court found it guilty of failing to provide human treatment for thousands of poultry. The group Mercy for Animals has made… »
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Baby orcas doing well on the west coast
Orcas, the species once known as Killer Whales, are endangered, and the baby whales were at one time given only a 50 percent chance of survival. But two new calves appear to be alive and very well on Canada’s west… »
Canada beats Russia at Women’s World Hockey Championship in Sweden
Canada’s Women’s Hockey team is hard at work at the women’s world hockey championships in Malmo, Sweden. Courtney Birchard celebrates scoring in the last second of the first period in the group A match between Canada and Russia, Sunday. © AP/Claudio… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Society
Northerners turn out to see reindeer crossing
About 3,000 reindeer crossed an ice road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, in the Northwest Territories on Sunday. This was the 80th time the animals were herded from their wintering ground at Jimmy Lake to their calving grounds on Richards Island… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Investigation of Halifax crash landing up and running
A full contingent of 12 to 15 Canadian Transportation Safety Board investigators are on the scene today at Halifax’s Stanfield International Airport, trying to establish what happened when an Air Canada Airbus crash landed early Sunday morning in a snow… »
International, Politics, Society
Canada to expand role in Middle East
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to use his parliamentary majority on Monday to extend Canada’s military campaign in Iraq for up to 12 months and authorize airstrikes in Syria. The governing Conservatives say the air attacks are necessary to… »
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Canadians number one again in internet use
Canadians spend an average of 36.3 hours on-line and visit an average of 80 sites every month. This according to comScore Canada, which also found we’re increasingly using our smart-phones to access the ‘net. We’re in good company with Americans, who spend 35.2… »
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Ontario’s ‘Sunshine list’ grows
Ontario’s annual Sunshine List grew by more that 13,600 workers over 2013. The list, which includes teachers, nurses, police, and firefighters, is all those who make over C$100,000 a year. In 2014 there were 111,438 public sector workers on the list. It… »
Supreme Court ends Canada’s long-gun registry
It was an astronomically costly, convoluted, and extremely controversial effort from its outset. Now all remaining information in the long-gun registry database in Canada will be scrapped, in spite of a Quebec protest to keep its portion of the federal… »
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