Canada’s pro-business Conservative government and environmentalists are squaring off again. The latest skirmish follows the release of an Environment Canada list updated earlier this month of an 363 harmful chemicals going into Canadian air, land and water. Anti-fracking activists are… »
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Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Society
The Komagata Maru incident – Past racism, future challenges
REBROADCAST On Friday morning (May 23) Naveen Girn started his day at Vancouver harbour, and tried to imagine what it was like for 376 passengers 100 years earlier on May 23, 1914 who arrived at the harbour, and then were… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Bombardier Aerospace bids adieu to 1800 employees
Bombardier announced a reorganization of its aerospace division yesterday, that will result in the eventual loss of 1800 positions, including that of CEO. Guy Hachey, 59, who came to the company six years ago from a 30-year career in the… »
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Conflict grows over charity audits
Another salvo has been fired in a long-running Canadian culture war that pits civil libertarians and their allies against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party government and its supporters. Mr. Harper’s most ardent critics say he is a master of… »
The first humans to reach North America were boat people, documentary says
REBROADCAST For a long time science told us that the first people to reach the North American continent arrived here on foot after the last Ice Age. But, scientists are finding evidence that suggests otherwise. They think the first humans… »
Economy, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Back-pain relief for some coming soon
Dr. Keiran Murphy says he loves Canada, and many in Canada may soon love him. Dr. Murphy, who began his medical studies in his native Ireland, is the inventor of a device, currently beingtested in three Canadian cities. If approved… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Arts-Book: Done with slavery – Author Frank Mackey
REBROADCAST Many people might be surprised to learn that slavery did exist in the former French and later British colonies of Lower and Upper Canada. – See more at: It ended well before Canada came into being as a country,… »
Health, International, Society
Canadian basketball growing by leaps and (re)bounds
Canada as a world-class basketball power? Basketball, the game they play in sneakers and not hockey skates? Hold that yuk! Stifle that guffaw! “Basketball? Isn’t that the game Steve Nash plays? He’s the only Canadian basketball player I’ve ever heard… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Space Studies Program in Montreal this summer
The International Space University was the brainchild of three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. In 1987, two Americans, Peter Diamnadis and Todd B. Hawley, and Canadian, Bob Richards, were concerned that space-exploration was becoming increasingly polarized, particularly between… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Stretching for athletes takes some heat
It seems like forever that stretching has served as an integral part of any serious athlete’s warmup–or, sometimes, warmdown–exercise routine. Go to most professional sporting events events a couple of hours before the competition and you will see the most… »
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