As humans push into more remote areas they are coming into contact with diseases rarely encountered before. Diseases confined to animals for example are now being transferred to human hosts, and then develop into disease which can be spread from… »
Highlights
Dementia patients need financial protection
As Canadians age and more of them experience cognitive decline, there are more cases of people making disastrous financial decisions and family members trying to undo them. The Alzheimer Society of Canada wants financial institutions to be more compassionate in… »
Arts & Entertainment, Health, Politics, Society
Canadian city relents (somewhat) on anti-tobaggan law
with files from CBC Canadians across the country have been outraged by a recent spate of municipal by-laws against the iconic Canadian winter sport of tobogganing down snowy winter slopes in city parks. The city of Hamilton Ontario is now… »
Health, International, Society
Prime minister chides anti-vaxxers
Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticized Canadians who refuse to vaccinate their children as he announced more money for inoculation programs in poor countries. Since some cases of measles recently cropped up in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, there has… »
RCI celebrates its 70th anniversary
Radio Canada International began its first official broadcast on February 25th 1945. Last night a group of past and present members gathered to celebrate the occasion at a display set up in the cafeteria of the CBC/Radio-Canada building in Montreal… »
Accident victim records his own rescue
A young man used his cell phone to videotape a rescue crew cutting him free of his crashed car on January 15. The accident happened around 5:30 am as Andrew MacDonald was driving home from a night out in the western… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Sex-ed update for Ontario schools gets strong support from experts and students
“Sex-ed curriculum update” is how most media outlets are describing the province of Ontario’s new “Updated Health and Physical Education Curriculum“, released on Monday. The program will be introduced into classrooms, from grade one to the end of high school,… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
World response to atrocities called ‘shameful’
“2014 was a catastrophic year for millions caught up in violence,” says a report by Amnesty International. “The global response to conflict and abuses by states and armed groups has been shameful and ineffective.” Instead of intervening to stop mass… »
Obesity and weight: easy to gain, difficult to lose
It seems whether young or old, once you put on the extra weight, it’s very hard to lose it, and keep it off. New research at McMaster University analyzed hundreds of different obesity and weight-loss studies over the past decade… »
Canada, a tale of two weather extremes
In west coast Canada the winter has been unusually mild. The Yukon Sourdough Festival in the far northern city of Whitehorse had to bring in snow for the snow carving event. On Vancouver Island and the lower Fraser river, the… »
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