Indigenous leaders and politicians from across Canada wrapped up a one day meeting on Friday (February 27) as part of a National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. For years there have been calls for a national inquiry into… »
Highlights
Communications commission wants community warned before payphones disconnected
Canada’s broadcast and communications regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), wants telephone companies to notify communities before they remove payphones. On Thursday (February 26) the Commission released the results of a study on payphone use in Canada and proposed… »
Judge refused to hear case of woman wearing hijab
A provincial court is standing by a judge who refused to hear the case of a woman unless she removed her Islamic headscarf. Rania El-Alloul was in a Montreal courtroom hoping to have her car returned to her. It had… »
City of Montreal joins legal challenge against Canada Post
Canada’s second most populous city, Montreal, is joining a legal challenge against the Canadian government mail delivery service, Canada Post. “We want to send a clear message to the federal government and to Canada Post that home mail delivery is… »
Program seeks to increase diversity on boards
A Toronto-based program has successfully increased the number of visible minorities on boards of public institutions, agencies and not-for-profits and will soon share its expertise with organizations in other Canadian cities. Close to one half of Toronto residents are visible… »
Highlights, International, Society
Victory: The first overseas military action of young Canada
February 27, 1900. In the 1800’s European nations were eagerly building colonial empires in Africa. In the 1880’s, British expansion came into conflict with German expansion, and the long-time Dutch farmers “Boers”. Both the Boers and British also came into… »
Plastic car bumpers cracking in the cold
As if the unusually cold winter in eastern Canada wasn’t bad enough, body shops are reporting having to fix more than the usual number of car bumpers at a cost of about $1,000 each. In the good ole days bumpers… »
Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, Society
February 27, 1842: “Rammed earth” and a church consecration
While “rammed earth” is not a familiar term now, it was not unusual in the 1800’s. Also not unusual is the consecration of a small church in a Canadian village. But there is something unique about St Thomas Anglican Church… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Experimental film shows life and death of RCI antenna site
For interdisciplinary artist Amanda Dawn Christie it started out many years ago as a sound project, trying to capture the radio signals people were hearing in their sinks, toasters and fridges near the Radio Canada International shortwave transmitter site in… »
Lawyer Amal Clooney: Mohamed Fahmy should be transferred to Canada
Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy should be transferred to Canada, he “is eligible for transfer… and the retrial process that is now in motion does not change that,” says his lawyer Amal Clooney in a statement released Thursday (February 26). “Mr.… »
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