A Toronto-based program has successfully increased the number of visible minorities on boards of public institutions, agencies and not-for-profits and will soon share its expertise with organizations in other Canadian cities. Close to one half of Toronto residents are visible… »
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Arts & Entertainment, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Experimental film shows life and death of RCI antenna site
For interdisciplinary artist Amanda Dawn Christie it started out many years ago as a sound project, trying to capture the radio signals people were hearing in their sinks, toasters and fridges near the Radio Canada International shortwave transmitter site in… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health
Epidemics expert: spend millions now to save billions later.
As humans push into more remote areas they are coming into contact with diseases rarely encountered before. Diseases confined to animals for example are now being transferred to human hosts, and then develop into disease which can be spread from… »
Dementia patients need financial protection
As Canadians age and more of them experience cognitive decline, there are more cases of people making disastrous financial decisions and family members trying to undo them. The Alzheimer Society of Canada wants financial institutions to be more compassionate in… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Sex-ed update for Ontario schools gets strong support from experts and students
“Sex-ed curriculum update” is how most media outlets are describing the province of Ontario’s new “Updated Health and Physical Education Curriculum“, released on Monday. The program will be introduced into classrooms, from grade one to the end of high school,… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
World response to atrocities called ‘shameful’
“2014 was a catastrophic year for millions caught up in violence,” says a report by Amnesty International. “The global response to conflict and abuses by states and armed groups has been shameful and ineffective.” Instead of intervening to stop mass… »
Obesity and weight: easy to gain, difficult to lose
It seems whether young or old, once you put on the extra weight, it’s very hard to lose it, and keep it off. New research at McMaster University analyzed hundreds of different obesity and weight-loss studies over the past decade… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Radio Canada International’s 70th anniversary
Radio Canada International will celebrate 70 years of sharing the Canadian viewpoint and way of life, with people around the world tomorrow. Created in the crucible of the Second World War, Canada’s International Service first broadcast, in French and English,… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Changed advice on preventing peanut allergies
“Avoid peanuts” may have been exactly the wrong advice to give parents with babies susceptible to developing an allergy to them. A new study suggests that regularly exposing at risk infants to small amounts before they are one year old,… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Future Arctic, how the north affects the world
While many people have heard of changes happening in the Arctic over the past few short decades, one man has been seeing them happen first hand. Edmonton, Alberta-based author, journalist, photographer Ed Struzik had spent some 35 years on scientific… »
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