The heads of Canada’s national police force the RCMP, the spy agency CSIS, and the electronics gathering agency CSE testified Monday (April 20) at a hearing of the Senate’s National Security and Defence Committee examining the Canadian government’s proposed, and… »
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Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian discovery: maple syrup as powerful antibiotic delivery platform
It is one of the world’s great natural sweeteners, totally organic, renewable and sustainable, and Canadian Canada, and especially the province of Quebec, provides the vast majority of the world’s maple syrup, but now new Canadian research seems to indicate… »
Deaths of Rangers in northern Canada raise concern
Canada’s Department of Defence says only one of 49 deaths of Rangers since January 2011 is related to their duty of patrolling the Arctic. The rest it attributes to “health and hazard issues common in the larger population of the… »
Mayor calls for end of gang shootings in City of Surrey after 22-year-old killed
“I am imploring any who have been involved in these shootings to take a sober look at the grim reality of your actions,” said Mayor Linda Hepner during a Monday morning (April 20) press conference in her Pacific coast city of… »
17th edition of Montreal’s Blue Metropolis literary festival
Back for its 17th edition, the annual Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival continues its mandate of bringing people of different cultures together “to share the pleasures of reading and writing.” Inspired by an earlier event called “Write pour écrire” in… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Floating nuclear power stations for Arctic?
An Ontario company is proposing the idea of small floating nuclear stations to power mining sites and towns in the Arctic. At a mining symposium last week in the Arctic city of Iqaluit in Nunavut, Dunedin Energy Systems suggested the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Rare turtle stalls massive wind farm
Plans for a 324-hectare wind farm in the province of Ontario are on hold after a court ruled the project could wipe out the threatened Blanding’s turtle population, reports the Globe and Mail newspaper. Ontario has become a leader in… »
Canadian journalist in Egypt will get a passport
In a sudden about-face, the Canadian government announced it will issue a Canadian passport to Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy. An elated Fahmy says it is the “best news ever” and it will allow him to marry the fiancé who has… »
History: April 21, 1918, Canada and the end of the “Red Baron”
He was legendary at the time, and his legend has endured and grown ever since. He was the German WW1 ace, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, Since his death there have been books, songs, plays and movies made about him,… »
Economic questions in House of Commons on eve of federal budget
Opposition parties were eager to attack the ruling Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday (April 20) the first day back in the House of Commons after the Easter break. And the focus for a number of questions,… »
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