Complaints on social media prompted Waddington’s to pull from auction a small aboriginal child’s leather tunic with a bullet hole and dried blood in the chest area. The gruesome artifact was part of a collection belonging to the late William… »
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Labour leader Sid Ryan calls for worker mobilization, militancy
“The Cdn Labour Movement is at a crossroads. We need to build resistance to Harper from coast to coast. We need a change in direction,” wrote Sid Ryan, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), in a comment on… »
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Manitoba versus the zebra mussel
They are small, but cause huge problems. Invasive zebra mussels have already caused major environmental change and a costly problem in lakes and rivers throughout eastern Canada and much of the US. Last year they were discovered in Lake Winnipeg, and… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Safe drinking water? Canadians develop a simple test with a pill
In developed countries, testing whether water is safe to drink can be a long process, in developing countries there is often no testing available at all. This means in many cases people are forced to drink water at their risk,… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Society
Climate change increasing asthma rates: advocate
“Climate change is already profoundly affecting, but is going to increasingly profoundly affect people around the world…who have respiratory problems,” says Robert Oliphant, head of the Asthma Society of Canada and head of an international group of patient advocacy groups called… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Indigenous, Society
Climate change effect on northern health
The high Arctic is experiencing the greatest effects from changing climate of anywhere in the world, and it’s affecting the health of Inuit who live there in a variety of ways says James Ford who led a research team studying… »
More Canadians to suffer chronic pain
One in five Canadians experience pain daily or four out of seven days a week, according to estimates. That number grows to one-third of those who are over sixty years old, an age group which is growing in Canada population.… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian farmers campaign against increasing seed-patent control.
It may seem a remote to most citizens and it has barely made the news, but farmers of all kinds across Canada are extremely concerned about proposed new legislation. It would increase rights of plant patent holders and limit farmers… »
Supreme Court rules on Senate reform
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously today, that the federal government alone does not have the power to make changes, or indeed abolish the Canadian Senate. The eight judges of the top court considered three scenarios: enforcing fixed terms of nine… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian web documentary highlights Arctic science
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North Ever wondered how noise affects marine mammals in the Arctic? Or what glacial ice really looks like? Profiles from the Arctic is a new web documentary that answers… »
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