Canada’s next Chief of Defence Staff will be Lieutenant-General Jonathan Vance, a veteran commander of Canada’s Afghanistan mission, and presently in charge of Canada’s participation in the coalition fighting the Islamic State. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Stephen… »
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Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Scientist seeks protection for dinosaur ‘highway’
Hundreds of dinosaur footprints have been found embedded in flat rocks in the western province of British Columbia. The prints suggest the area some 1,500 km northeast of Vancouver was a kind of thoroughfare for dinosaurs between 115 and 117… »
Arts & Entertainment, Highlights, Society
Guitars guitars guitars..and banjos, mandolins, and amps and guitars, and..
The small southern Ontario town of Elmira was heaven for hundreds and hundres of guitar lovers this weekend as they crowded in a large hall in town. It was the sixth annual Ontario Vintage Guitar show, and there were guitars… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Canadian commemoration annoys Vietnam
Vietnam’s relationship with Canada has been damaged by a new law commemorating the arrival of refugees after the fall of Saigon, said a Vietnamese diplomat to the Globe and Mail newspaper. The law sets April 30 as Journey to Freedom… »
History-April 27 1945: The crazy trio who helped a starving war-torn Holland
It was really quite mad. Throughout April1945, vicious fighting had been taking place as Canadians pushed across Holland, retaking city and village from the desperate but still determined German Army. Along the way, they encountered starving Dutch who were resorting… »
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Eric McNair-Landry-promoting Inuit history through kayaks
Centuries before Europeans ever ventured into the Arctic with their large ungainly sailing ships, the Inuit had devised a simply, fast, agile craft called the kayak, or Qajak. Eric McNair-Landry, born and raised in the Arctic on Baffin Island, Eric… »
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Politics Today – April 26, 2015
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda focuses on the electoral reaction to the tabling of a federal budget by the ruling Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He reports on the budget in Canada’s most populous… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Politics
Mining, environment and polar politics – Arctic week in Review
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this week: -Canada hands the two-year rotating chairmanship of… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Politics
Canada wraps up two year chairmanship of Arctic Council
“No one knows better more than the people who live here how to survive and to thrive in the Arctic environment,” said Canada’s Minister of Environment Leona Leona Aglukkaq and Minister for the Arctic Council as she chaired her last… »
Highlights, International, Society
Armenian genocide 1915-2015, Canada remembers
Canadians of Armenian descent are attending various ceremonies across Canada today to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of what is now known as the Armenian Genocide. One hundred years ago today, the Ottoman Turkish empire began an almost… »
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