A Canadian advocacy group is raising funds to create the country’s first museum presenting historical and current stories of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans or of other gender or sexual minorities. The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual… »
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Tobacco: tougher packaging laws coming
Canada will soon join several other nations in the effort to reduce smoking. New sweeping changes to the Tobacco Act which passed Parliament, will come into force in the near future will give Health Canada powers to mandate so-called “plain… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees
New play explores myth of Asians as ‘model minority’
Submissive, intelligent and well-behaved, a model minority. That’s how the society largely views Asian immigrants, says Montreal-based playwright Marie Barlizo. But Barlizo says she wants to help bust that myth with her new play that features an unlikely duo of… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Here comes the sun (at last), but beware of melanoma
It’s a type of cancer that is afflicting more and more people. Estimates are that in 2017, some 7000 Canadians had melanoma and over 1000 died from it. World Melanoma Day is marked annually on the second Monday in May,… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Protection of a huge swath of boreal forest ‘of global importance’
One of the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem is the boreal forest that encircles the globe’s northern latitudes and one-third of it is in Canada. A new project will conserve a part of it that is more than twice the… »
The importance of the genetic non-discrimination act
Protecting your right to your genetic information In 2017 Canada passed the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, to protect people from being discriminated against over revelations of their genetic information from lab testing and any possible anomalies or mutations. Such discrimination could be… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International
Carbon emissions from tourism growing rapidly
A new study suggests that tourism is growing rapidly and is already responsible for about eight per cent of greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change. A large part of the emissions comes from flights, but this accounting also includes… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
TB infections: Developing tolerance vs.the battle to resist
Bacterial infections have been around since, forever. Sometimes they’re deadly, yet sometimes the human body can control them. Considering drug-resistance pathogens are becoming an ever-increasing concern, new research is tackling the question of how the body develops tolerance to pathogens… »
Sleep apnea a risk for over half of seniors: study
A new study suggests that 56 per cent of people aged 65 years and older have a sleep disorder in which they repeatedly stop breathing. This obstructive sleep apnea can make people feel tired and is linked to health problems… »
Internet, Science & Technology
Consumers risk being sued for online criticism
A Canadian woman posted some negative comments on the internet about a restoration company in Ottawa and now the company is threatening to sue her for damage to its reputation. Under Canada’s criminal law, “a defamatory libel is matter published,… »
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