University of Toronto professor and researcher Molly Shoichet has won Canada’s most prestigious science prize for her work designing hydrogels that mimic human tissues. The $1 million Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal is presented by the The Natural Sciences and… »
Highlights
Tennis star Andreescu ready to return to play in January in Australia
Branca Andreescu, the emerging tennis star whose effusive personality and hard-nosed play lit up Canada’s collective consciousness late in the summer of 2019, when she won both the Rogers Cup in Toronto and the U.S. Open in New York, appears… »
International, Politics, Society
Canada must act with other democracies to protect Hong Kongers: expert
Canada is not in the same league as China and cannot act alone to protect the people of Hong Kong, said Steve Tsang, in a phone interview today. Tsang is a political scientist at the University of London’s SOAS China… »
Canada’s health care expensive and lagging behind OECD countries
Canadians love to boast about our ‘universal’ health care system that provides access to all Canadians with little or no direct costs to patients in a system paid for through taxes. But a new international analysis of similar systems shows,… »
As COVID cases mount, many Canadians say they support nightime curfews
On the day when Ontario set a new single-day record of COVID-19 cases–that included 15 more deaths linked to the illness–a new public opinion survey suggests that two out of three Canadians are ready to support temporary nightime curfews if the… »
Trudeau and Biden speak after Canadian leaders send weekend congratulations
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he spoke today with U.S. president-elect Joe Biden and that the two discussed shared priorities, including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Trudeau made the announcement on Twitter. I just spoke with @JoeBiden, and congratulated… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Young Canadians more pessimistic about the environment: survey
Different generations of Canadians have differing views about climate change, according to a survey done for IBM in October 2020. Canadians over the age of 50 are more likely to think that the pandemic has stalled advances in the fight against… »
Remembrance: Origin of the poppy symbol
On November 11, at the 11th hour, Canada, and many places around the world will hold ceremonies to commemorate the Armistice of the First World War when the guns were finally silenced. Services, held annually in Canada since 1931, now… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
PM calls Pfizer’s Monday vaccine announcement ‘encouraging’
Monday’s announcement by U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech SE, that early data suggests their COVID-19 vaccine seems safe and effective could be very good news for Canadians. Pfizer is one of seven drug companies Ottawa has signed… »
Small businesses face insurance price hikes or are refused coverage
More than half of small businesses in Canada have seen increases in the cost of insurance premiums in the past year and some cannot get coverage at all, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). Without insurance coverage businesses… »
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