The RCMP is hiring 30 officers from its regular members to staff the new Parliamentary Protective Service, a division that will assume control in June 2015. Interested candidates must commit to a minimum of three to five years. They will… »
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Pan Am Games welcome Women’s Baseball
The Pan Am Games in the Greater Toronto Area will include women’s baseball for the first time at a major multi-sport Games. Canada selected 18 women for its baseball team to play at the 2015 Pan American Games taking place from… »
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Deep Ground Repository for nuclear waste has local support and regional opposition
The Deep Ground Repository (DGR) proposed for Kincardine in Southwestern Ontario, will be the topic of many conversations over this annual Victoria Day holiday weekend. As the unofficial beginning of summer, in much of southern Canada, this is the time… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Climate change may affect lobster larvae
Climate change is altering the chemistry of oceans and making them warmer, and that may alter the breathing of lobster larvae, says Jesica Waller, a graduate student at the University of Maine. Waller will come to Canada’s eastern province of… »
Aboriginals in need get some traditional food
Indigenous people using drop-in centres and soup kitchens in Montreal will get seal meat once a month—a special treat that will remind many of them of home. Aboriginal people from the north and other remote communities come to cities for… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Scientists seek union protection from interference
Scientists working for the Canadian government feel so constrained that they are asking that their collective agreement include wording that would protect their right to speak about their work, reports the Globe and Mail. The current government forbids scientists from… »
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Canadians taking shorter summer vacations, and fewer in Canada
Canadians are taking shorter summer vacations and not going as far as they once did. It appears the family road trip to visit Prince Edward Island or ‘do the Cabot Trail’ in Nova Scotia, is a rare event these days.… »
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Agriculture in Alberta: Jack Francis; farmer, animal research technician, museum curator
He’s an Alberta prairie boy through and through. A farm boy in his youth, Jack Francis soon joined the University of Alberta’s Edmonton Research Station where he began to care for the various animals and help in research. This involved… »
Prof suggests legal protection for obese people
Canada has human rights laws that protect people from discrimination and they should include direct mention of people who are obese, says Bill Bogart, a law professor at the University of Windsor. Bogart wrote a book called Regulating Obesity? Government,… »
Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Concordia’s Centre for the Evaluation of Immigration Policies, a first
Immigrating to Canada has evolved profoundly over the last 20 years. And in the last 10 years, almost all the provinces and regions have realized the importance of immigration to their future, both economically and socially. Several initiatives have been… »
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