It was in Afghanistan in 2006, (video interview below) A new book by Major-General David Fraser talks of that battle in his book , Operation Medusa Canadians were sent to Afghanistan to help rebuild the country and wrest it away… »
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Disappeared in Mexico: Canadians support affected families
Canadians have written messages of concern and support on paper butterflies delivered by Amnesty International Canada to Mexicans who have lost friends or family members. More than 35,000 people in Mexico have disappeared. Monarch butterflies make a yearly migration between… »
Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Society
Anti-hate network created for Canada
According to activists, there has been a rise in the number of right wing and white supremacist groups in both the U.S and in Canada. This has been facilitated by the internet which has been used to spread ideology and… »
Gender identity guide helps doctors answer questions
Canadian pediatricians get more and more questions from parents about their children’s gender identity, so their association has developed a new resource to help them guide discussions. It includes definitions such as the difference between gender identity which is how… »
Arctic national park runs igloo building workshop
Igloos, the dome-like structures built out of blocks of packed snow, have become one of the most iconic images of the Canadian Arctic used in everything from advertising to children’s cartoons. But for millennia the Inuit people across the vast… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
McMaster University unique satellite project
The Canadian Space Agency launched a challenge for universities and the scientific community. It involved creating space research projects that could be carried out by tiny “cube sats”, These are very small, but powerful research satellites created by a variety… »
Climate change making allergies worse
It’s allergy season in Canada and the news is not good for those who suffer from symptoms like sneezing, a stuffed up or runny nose, cough, asthma or itchy eyes. Climate change has caused warmer temperatures and changing carbon dioxide… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Philip Harrison celebrates with a little help from his friends
Philip Harrison left England and first arrived in Canada in the summer of 1967, in Montreal, when all the world was coming to visit Expo’ 67. The experience left an impression on him, and eventually, in 1976 he emigrated. He… »
Canada gets set for all-Canadian football (soccer) league
It is to all extents and purposes, “the” major worldwide sport. Soccer, or football as it more widely known, has been somewhat in the shadows in terms of professional sports in North America. In spite of that an ambitious new… »
Talking muskox health: Eye on the Arctic video archive
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. In today’s instalment, we bring you a video from our documentary archive The Arctic is warming at twice the rate as the rest of the world and… »
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