Canada’s national public broadcaster, CBC, is reporting “Another environmental charity is about to undergo a political-activity audit by the Canada Revenue Agency [Canada’s tax-gathering agency] in what the charity’s director says is part of an ‘intimidation campaign’.” On Thursday (April… »
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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
For more than two decades University of Regina professor James Daschuk has assembled documentation of how disease and the politics of starvation decimated the Indigenous population in what is now the western prairie provinces of Canada. From diseases such as… »
National Canadian Film Day throws off ‘shackles of fear and insecurity’
“April 29 is National Canadian Film Day, a day to throw off the shackles of fear and insecurity, stand together with Canadians from coast to coast and pat ourselves on the back for something other than various ice-related sports and… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Peer abuse scars more than parental abuse: study
Bullying by peers can have a worse effect on children than neglect or abuse by parents, according to researchers in the U.S. and U.K. Children suffering peer abuse were more likely to suffer from mental health problems as young adults… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Risk from peanut allergy worst at home: study
Children who are allergic to peanuts are more likely to be exposed to them at home than elsewhere, concludes a study from McGill University and the University of Montreal. Food allergies increasing Food allergies are increasing in Canada and one… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Society
Time to re-open the eastern cod fishery?
It’s time to reopen the cod fishery off Canada’s eastern province of Newfoundland and Labrador, say some people involved in the fishing industry there. The fishery was once the most productive in the world but was shut down in 1992… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
World Wildlife Fund welcomes change at helm of Arctic Council
Foreign ministers from the eight Arctic states- Canada, the U.S., Russia, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden – along with representatives from six indigenous organizations and several observers like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), met in Iqaluit, Nunavut this… »
Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, Society
Across wide Canada by canoe
The paddling home crew tests out their new 17 foot long prospector canoe © Courtesy Paddling Home 2015 It’s going to be an epic journey, and provide memories for a lifetime. A young family of three, Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume, his wife… »
Parliamentary Budget Office: TFSAs benefit ‘high wealth households’
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Office says the increased limits for Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) from $5,000 to $10,000, announced in the April federal budget, will not unduly put Canada into debt, because few people will be able to put that much… »
Health care not assured in remote native areas
Aboriginal people who live in remote regions of central Canada are not guaranteed the access to health services they are supposed to get, says the auditor-general of Canada. Based on law, the Canadian government supports First Nations by providing funding… »
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