The sale of electric vehicles (EVs) has gone up 79 per cent over the past year, but that still amount to only 8-9,000 of them in Canada. World Wildlife Fund Canada is promoting the use of EVs as a way… »
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Train derailed by landslide another tragedy in Quebec
A train, operated by the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L) derailed this morning around 7:30 a.m. by what appears to be a landslide. The remote location of the train, on the Moise River, about 20 kilometres north of… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
How noise can harm bird survival
Most people may not realize it but audio communication is vital for young birds to survive. Researchers in east coast Nova Scotia found that ambient noise can disrupt communication between adults and nestlings, putting the nestlings at risk Andy Horn… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Shift work ages brain, but is reversible: study
Doing shift work for more than ten years ages the brain by more than six years, according to a new study published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The effect can be reversed when people switch to regular hours,… »
Controversy surges over unpaid internships
The governor of the Bank of Canada reignited a storm of controversy when he suggested young people looking for jobs should do unpaid work as a way to get experience. Stephen Poloz made the remarks to a House of Commons… »
Economy, International, Politics, Society
Conference to discuss effects of corruption and possible solutions
Corruption costs society in so many ways, promoting gang or illegal activities, unfair business dealings, potentially shoddy public works, waste of vast sums of public humanitarian aid money, and much much more. Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) is… »
Economy, International, Politics, Society
Currency makeover: womenonbanknotes.ca
Canadian currency features just one well-known woman, and she is not Canadian. Queen Elizabeth II, our head of state, is on most coins and bills, but Merna Forster, and 48,000 other Canadians want that to change. They want to see… »
More Canadians needing food aid ‘alarming’
More than 840,000 Canadians went to food banks in March to get free groceries. That was one per cent more than sought food aid last year and is a figure described as “alarming” by Katharine Schmidt, executive director of Food… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
Proposal for a Canadian nation-wide “seal products day”
A Canadian Senator wants to promote Inuit, and other community seal hunting here in Canada, in light of the ongoing difficulties caused by a European Union ban on seal products, and general public misconceptions about the seal hunt in this… »
Economy, Health, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Federal government ordered to restore healthcare to refugees, by federal Appeal Court
The ‘Interim Federal Health Program‘ was ordered restored on Friday, by Judge Wyman Webb. He rejected the federal government’s request to further delay the restoration of benefits to people as they wait for a decision in their claim of refugee… »
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