More than half the people on earth live in urban areas, and providing for their needs gobbles up farmland, forests, wetlands and other ecosystems, warns David Suzuki, a Canadian scientist and prominent environmentalist. More jurisdictions are enacting strong land-use policies… »
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Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Biophilic design gaining ground in Canada
Biophilic elements are growing in popularity as architects and designers incorporate more green design into the structures they’re building. The inclusion of nature in architecture Architect Ron Schwenger and his company, Architek Green Building Solutions, have been very busy building green… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Digital media changing our brains, attention spans
The average human attention span has gone from 12 seconds in 2000, to only eight seconds in 2013, according to research from Microsoft Corp. It notes, that is one second shorter than a goldfish’s attention span. And much of the… »
Economy, Highlights, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Call for tracking of foreign ownership of housing
Montreal has seen buyers from China, Syria, Mexico, Russia and the U.S –Sotheby’s Int’l Realty Canada With prices going ever higher for housing in Canada, at least on federal politician is calling for investigation of foreign speculation on housing. While… »
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Meat-labelling trade dispute victory with U.S. could lead to punitive tariffs
The World Trade Organization ruled in Canada’s favour in a trade dispute over mandatory ‘country-of-origin labelling’ (Cool) on Canadian meat sold in the United States. Canadian estimates put the losses, since 2008, at as much as a billion a year. This… »
Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, Society
History: Canada’s National Parks May 19, 1911
The world’s first national parks administration Canada’s national parks are sites of incredible natural beauty, with some also declared World Heritage sites, and it started on this day in 1911 with the creation of the Dominion Parks Branch of the… »
MP demands urgent study of ‘retroactive’ law
The opposition wants an emergency study of the national police’s destruction of gun registry records. Canada’s information commissioner Suzanne Legault told the justice minister in March that there were grounds to charge the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) for withholding… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, International, Society
Celine Dion returns to the stage
Celine Dion will be back on-stage in Los Vegas, August 27th with the first of 40 shows until January 2016. Dion took a year off to care for her ailing husband, Rene Angelil, to spend time with her three children,… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
New Canadian research could lead to the end of allergies
Some people suffer through spring and all its pollen with clogged noses, and runny and itchy eyes. Others can’t be near cats, others can have potentially deadly reactions to peanuts or seafood. It seems between 20-30 percent of the Canadian… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Scientists clean livers too fatty for transplant
So many people are becoming obese in Canada that doctors are finding that many livers donated for transplant have signs of fatty liver disease. A team of doctors in the eastern city of Halifax is researching ways to remove some… »
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