Oasis Skateboard Factory School is getting ready to welcome the class of 2017. An alternative high school in central Toronto, it allows young people who did not thrive in the standard high school environment, an opportunity to focus and be a… »
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David Eng Canada’s flag-bearer in Rio Parlympics
David Eng, the veteran wheelchair basketball star, was chosen to carry the flag and lead the Canadian team into the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow evening. Eng was on the Canadian teams that won Paralympic gold in 2004… »
Major case: Canada’s public health care system on trial
Dr. Brian Day, Medical Director of the Cambie Surgery Centre, is challenging B.C.’s ban on the purchase of private insurance for medically necessary services already covered by the public system. © Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press) It is a lawsuit that has… »
Younger children using cellphones
Canadian children are back at school this week and many of them are taking cellphones with them. A 2015 study by MediaSmarts, a group that promotes digital literacy, suggests that almost 60 per cent of students in grades four through… »
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History: Television begins in Canada, Sept.06, 1952
The new technology of television had been amazing visitors to the annual Canadian Nation Exhibition in Toronto since before the Second World War. Indeed there had been some brief experiments in actual broadcast television as far back as 1932 based… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Canada funds ‘world-leading’ institute for ocean science
The government of Canada has announced a $94 million contribution to universities in eastern provinces to create an international institute for ocean science. To be called the Ocean Frontier Institute, it will be collaboration between Dalhousie University, Memorial University and… »
Public broadcaster’s news anchor to retire
The CBC’s veteran news anchor Peter Mansbridge announced that he will retire on July 1, 2017 and viewers are wondering who will replace him. There is always chatter when a major news anchor steps down, partly because they generally stay… »
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Beautiful music, beautiful setting-Celtic harp-New Brunswick.
Those who live there, and those who visit already know Grand Manan Island is a wonderfully picturesque island in the Bay of Fundy. In many ways, it resembles the scenery of Ireland, or some Scottish Isles. That makes it a… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Society
Greenpeace report on sustainable development in Nunavut lacks substance: expert
A recent Greenpeace-commissioned report outlining a roadmap for sustainable development in Nunavut is a good first step but it still misses the point, says a Canadian expert on Arctic development. The report, entitled Beyond Fossil Fuels – Sustainable Economic Development Opportunities… »
Economy, International, Politics
G20 leaders promise to fix economic ills, but remain vague on concrete steps
Leaders from the world’s top economies agreed at a summit in China on Monday to coordinate their macroeconomic policies and oppose protectionism, but offered few concrete proposals to counter growing challenges to globalisation and free trade. In a joint statement… »
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