Bats are dying in huge numbers in five Canadian provinces and the rest of eastern North America, but new research may eventually help counter what’s killing them. It’s estimated that white-nose syndrome has killed 5.7 million bats in North America.… »
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Mel Hurtig: Whither Canada, and a career in being Canadian
Mel Hurtig might be called “Captain Canada” Now 82 years old, he has been a successful businessman, a politician creating a national federal party, and is a respected lecturer and author of several books, and all this over many decades… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Palmyra a tragic loss to the world: ROM Archaeologist
Professor Clemens Reichel is an Assistant Professor in the department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, and Associate Curator at the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) in Toronto. Like many in the global archaeological community, he… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Other injuries can cause concussion-like symptoms
Many people with very minor head injuries or injuries to other parts of their bodies can experience severe symptoms like those caused by a concussion, and a new study sheds light on why. The symptoms can be debilitating and include… »
Internet, Science & Technology
Searching the Stars: McMaster University astrophysicist Rene Heller-life on distant moons?
Looking for life in all the wrong places. Rene Heller PhD, astrophysicist at the Origins Institute, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario © supplied For decades, if not centuries, man has been looking at the heavens wondering about… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, International, Society
Canadians taking shorter summer vacations, and fewer in Canada
Canadians are taking shorter summer vacations and not going as far as they once did. It appears the family road trip to visit Prince Edward Island or ‘do the Cabot Trail’ in Nova Scotia, is a rare event these days.… »
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Agriculture in Alberta: Jack Francis; farmer, animal research technician, museum curator
He’s an Alberta prairie boy through and through. A farm boy in his youth, Jack Francis soon joined the University of Alberta’s Edmonton Research Station where he began to care for the various animals and help in research. This involved… »
Prof suggests legal protection for obese people
Canada has human rights laws that protect people from discrimination and they should include direct mention of people who are obese, says Bill Bogart, a law professor at the University of Windsor. Bogart wrote a book called Regulating Obesity? Government,… »
Single-mother’s lives are improving in Canada
This Mother’s Day in Canada, brings the good news that single-mother’s lives appear to be improving according to a recent study released by the Ottawa-based Vanier Institue of the Family. The title says it all: Lone Mothers and Their Families… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Greenpeace questions bird deaths at oilsands
Greenpeace Canada is calling for a full investigation into bird deaths at an oilsands tailings pond in the western province of Alberta. Petroleum companies extract oil from bitumen leaving behind ponds of toxic materials that can be as large as… »
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