Montreal has had a long cold winter, which has included a couple of dangerous ice storms. City planners have already indicated that he changing climate, including things like more ice storms, is challenging snow and ice removal efforts, and costing… »
Highlights
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Plan for terminal cancelled to protect whales
TransCanada Corporation has confirmed it no long plans to build a terminal on the St. Lawrence River at Cacouna in eastern Canada. The company says it made the decision in part because of concern for beluga whales. Protesters marched through… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Society
Are playgrounds too safe?
People of a certain generation remember that as young children they were involved in lots of outdoor activities. These included climbing trees, exploring the back yard, or nearby fields and ponds, or in city parks on the big, heavy wooden… »
Canadian teacher to appeal sex abuse verdict
Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman will appeal an Indonesian court’s verdict that he is guilty of child sexual abuse. Bantleman’s brother Guy has said he is “amazed at how incompetent the entire (Indonesian justice) system seems to be.” Bantleman and an… »
Economy, International, Politics
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Baird now director at gold, railway companies
Less than two months after resigning as a cabinet minister, and less than two weeks after resigning as a Member of Parliament, Canada’s former Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is a director with the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold and… »
Exercise helps reduce cigarette cravings: study
People who have just quit smoking and are using nicotine lozenges to dampen cravings can boost the effect with a short bout of exercise, according to a new study. This can help prevent them from relapsing. A group of 30… »
Ontario government employees holding information pickets across province
Unionized government employees are continuing to hold information pickets across Canada’s most populous province of Ontario to fight what they call the “government’s refusal to bargain a fair collective agreement”. “After years of austerity, [Ontario] Premier Kathleen Wynne is demanding… »
Legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in Los Angeles hospital
Multiple media reports say legendary singer-songwriter Joni Michell is in a Los Angeles hospital. It appears she was taken to the hospital late Tuesday (March 31) night. A producer with Canada’s national public broadcaster CBC, Leslie Stojsic, tweeted Wednesday that… »
Disabled Canadian tall ship towed to U.S. port
After several malfunctions and a rescue of the crew, a Canadian tall ship has been towed to a port near Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the United States. The schooner replica, Liana’s Ransom, ran into trouble when its engine failed, its… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights
Crimea conflict could block oil spill treaty in Arctic
The political dispute over Crimea between Russia, and the Ukraine and NATO nations, including Canada, could have an unexpected ripple effect in the high Arctic. At the senior arctic officials meeting (SAO) of the 8-member Arctic Council in early March,… »
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