It was a most memorable Mother’s Day for everyone aboard an Air Canada flight from Calgary, Alberta, Saturday night, to Tokyo, Japan. A 23-year-old gave birth to a healthy girl over the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. “I couldn’t imagine, this… »
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History, May 11, 1942 Battle of the St Lawrence begins
Surprisingly, with all the stories, films and other media that have documented or are based on the Secone World War, this long lasting battle is very little known. Perhaps more surprisingly, the battle at Canada’s front door and indeed right… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Doctors want action against vaccine ‘substitutes’
Canada’s pediatricians say there is no evidence that homeopathic nosodes prevent disease and that labels must make clear they are not an alternative to vaccination. Doctors are concerned about parents who decline to have their children receive the usual vaccinations… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Greenpeace questions bird deaths at oilsands
Greenpeace Canada is calling for a full investigation into bird deaths at an oilsands tailings pond in the western province of Alberta. Petroleum companies extract oil from bitumen leaving behind ponds of toxic materials that can be as large as… »
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Pan Am Games entertainment line-up released for Toronto’s big event
Panamania they’re calling it! The blow-out summer Toronto has in store, not just athletically with the Pam Am Games, but culturally and in all manner of entertainment. The countdown is on, and as the games get going, the fun will… »
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David Cronenberg receives Order of Canada
David Cronenberg, the renowned Canadian film director, was in Ottawa today to receive the highest honour in Canada. Invested by Governor General David Johnston as a Companion of the Order of Canada, Cronenberg was promoted within the order to the highest… »
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Haitians want more time before deportations resume
Haitians who took refuge in Canada following the 2010 earthquake, and those who were already here then, want more time to file applications to remain in Canada. The federal government lifted a moratorium on deportations to Haiti, put in place… »
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History: May 8, 1982, Canadian F1 star, Gilles Villeneuve killed
It happened in a split second, Gilles Villeneuve, a superstar F1 driver was trying to create a good qualifying time for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. In the final moments of qualifying, Jochen Mass was touring his way back… »
Canada owes native band millions, rules tribunal
An independent tribunal has decided that the Canadian government owes an aboriginal band in western Canada four million dollars from 130 years ago. The government withheld payments set out in its treaty with Beardy’s & Okemasis First Nation between 1885… »
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Another potential record wildfire season in Canada
It seems the forest fire season is already upon Canada, weeks earlier than usual. 2014 was considered the worst wildfire season in Canada’s boreal forest area of the Northwest Territores. (NT), as well as in the province of Alberta, and… »
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