As Canada enters it’s first few days of spring, it seems the wild winter in central and especially maritime Canada has left a potentially disastrous legacy. Already with the heavy snow load, a number of building have suffered roof collapses… »
Highlights / Canadian headlines
Canadian headlines
New rules announced for Canadian plane crews
Tuesday’s crash of a German jetliner in the French Alps has resulted in changes to aviation regulations in Canada. Effective immediately, all Canadian airliners will have at least two crew members in the cockpit at all times. Transport Minister Lisa… »
Terror trial brings new revelations
The trial of a couple accused of plotting to bomb the British Columbia legislature in 2013 continues in Vancouver John Nuttall and his wife, Amanda Korody, are facing four terror-related charges in B.C Supreme Court. In a recording played Thursday… »
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Skating’s Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford win gold in Shanghai
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won the gold medal in the pairs event at the world figure skating championships in Shanghai today. The pair took bronze at the last two world championships, and were also part of the Canadian team that… »
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Barbour’s in New Brunswick going nuts with success
G. E. Barbour Inc, is doing so well with their nut butters, they’ve had to hire around the clock staff. Demand in the United States has been growing to the point that they’ve hired people to keep production going 24/7… »
Aboriginal people trained on street drug antidote
A drug problem has become so bad on an aboriginal reserve in western Canada, that people are being trained to use a special antidote in hopes of saving lives. People have died on the Blood Tribe reserve in southern Alberta… »
Environment & Animal Life, Highlights
Long bitter winter forces Lynx to town
Once again this year, an exceptionally cold and long winter is causing normally very shy lynx to approach towns in northern Ontario searching for food. In one case a rather relaxed lynx is seen in the town of Terrace Bay… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Highlights, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Plastic microbeads- a toxic substance in waterways-from the Great Lakes to the Arctic
They are very tiny beads usually made of polyethylene, which is a very common plastic used for example, to make plastic bags. The microbeads are found in a wide variety of facial scrubs, body gels, and in toothpaste to act… »
Bell president apologizes for ‘intrusion’ in news
The president of a huge communications company has apologized for involving himself in news coverage by its television division, CTV. The Globe and Mail newspaper alleged that Bell Media President Kevin Crull tried to influence the network’s news coverage of… »
Economy, Health, Indigenous, Politics, Society
Food insecurity at 36.7% in Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut
Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut, home of the country’s Indigenous Inuit people, has a rate of food insecurity of 36.7 per cent according to the government data gathering agency Statistics Canada. In a report released Wednesday (March 25) the agency… »
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