Mario Rigby helps other people achieve their goals as a fitness coach and personal trainer in Toronto. But now, after completing the daunting 550 kilometre walk between Toronto and Montreal, in fourteen days, the former professional track and field athlete… »
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China using torture to force confessions: report
Torture and forced confessions are rampant in China as is trampling of human rights, says a report from Amnesty International. Canadian Huseyin Celil is serving a life sentence in China and while there is no proof, there is fear that… »
Vancouver friends dream of crossing Georgia Strait in hot tub boat
Edward Estabrook and his friends will have to wait until next spring to make sailing history. They want to set a world record by crossing the Georgia Strait, the body of water that separates British Columbia’s lower mainland from Vancouver… »
Judge reaffirms right to protest in the street
A judge has ruled that police cannot use an article in a highway safety code in the province of Quebec to stop protests because that would violate citizens’ rights under the constitution. The ruling acquits a protester who was fined… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics
Syrian refugees ‘not a problem but an opportunity’: PM Trudeau
Refugees are a source of economic growth, not a drain on Canada’s resources, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Thursday. “I think one of the things that is most important right now is for a country like Canada to demonstrate how… »
Canadian couple found dead in Mexico
It was supposed to be a picture-perfect wedding for their daughter. Instead the family of Charles MacKenzie and his wife, Dorothy, are making funeral arrangements. The couple from Baddeck, Nova Scotia were found dead in their hotel whirlpool in Mexico’s… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Early flu shots may stave off other illnesses
Getting the flu and other respiratory illnesses might cause inflammation which later may contribute to dementia, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, according to a recent study. Campaigns are on now across Canada to try to convince people to get their annual… »
Health, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
New study: More Canadian youth smoking hookahs; don’t think it’s a health risk
A new survey of over 27,000 teen-aged high school students across Canada showed that even as cigarette smoking has declined, hookah, or water pipe smoking of herbal shisha has increased. Leia Minaker (PhD) is a research assistant professor at the… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Doctor treated refugees on the Mediterranean
Refugees were taken off wooden boats and ferried by dinghy to the Phoenix, a rescue ship run by MSF. © MSF Horror was the initial reaction of a Canadian doctor when, on his first day at sea, he saw refugees in… »
Body of Canadian fighter killed in Syria starts journey home
The remains of a Canadian volunteer killed in north-eastern Syria last week have begun their long journey home. Kurdish fighters and fellow Canadian volunteer Hanna Bohman carried John Gallagher’s coffin through the streets of a Syrian town on Thursday in… »
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