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Health, Highlights, Society

Canada’s Victorian Order of Nurses: major cutbacks

It is Canada’s longest standing home and community health care charity, but it’s now facing serious challenges. Today it announced that it is drastically reducing service. For decades the VON has helped people remain independent in their own homes through »

Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society

Canada’s plan for Syrian refugees

During Canada’s recent federal election campaign, the crisis of migrants and refugees rushinginto Europe from Africa and the Middle-East was in full flood. Aid agencies were calling for the then-Conservative government to speed up the process of bringing refugees to »

Society

Homicide rate in Canada is low, stable

The government agency Statistics Canada reports that Canada’s homicide rate in 2014 was unchanged from the year before and is at its lowest level since 1966. This echoes a trend of decreasing murders and crime in western countries. In spite »

Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

Crib bumpers again called dangerous

A new U.S. study confirms that Canadian doctors’ advice to keep bumper pads out of babies’ cribs is best. Sleep safety for babies is an ongoing concern and the subject of many studies in western countries. For example, parents have »

Highlights, International, Society

Now “51″ ways to leave your lover”

With apologies to singer Paul Simon, and his song 50 ways to leave you lover, there is now an additional way to end a relationship, targetting roughly the 18 to 35 year old crowd. It’s something that could only happen »

Immigration & Refugees, International

Canada to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015

Canada will bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of December 2015, instead of the 25,000 people the Liberal government had pledged to resettle, the government announced Monday. They will include a mix of privately sponsored and government-assisted refugees, »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society

Ontario farmland: threatened by urban sprawl

Southern Ontario is the most heavily populated area in Canada. The region is colloquially known as the “Golden Horseshoe”, the relatively prosperous area stretching from just east of Toronto, around the end of Lake Ontario, through Hamilton to St Catharines »

International, Society

Canada denies allegations its airstrike killed civilians in northern Iraq

The Canadian military is denying reports that its airstrike against an ISIS bomb-making factory in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last week also killed at least five civilians injured and 20 others in a nearby dairy and ice cream »

Health, Society

Hospital clerk fined for breach of patient privacy

A former hospital clerk was sentenced to two years’ probation, 300 hours of community services and $45,000 in penalties for selling personal patient information to investment dealers, reports Canadian Press. Shaida Bandali pleaded guilty in August to a charge of unregistered »

International, Politics, Society

Can we beat doping in sport?

Recently world headlines told of another major scandal involving doping  in sport A special independent commission led by Canadian Dick Pound for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)  revealed a host of doping problems in the Russian amateur athletics system. Though the report »