A Canadian frigate left Halifax on Tuesday bound for the Mediterranean Sea to a NATO maritime force aimed at reassuring eastern European allies worried about the crisis in the Ukraine. HMCS Fredericton is the first Canadian frigate that’s received upgrades… »
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Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian military presence increases in Sierra Leone Ebola fight
Thirty-seven Canadian Armed Forces doctors, nurses, medics and support staff have started working at a British-run Ebola clinic in Sierra Leone. The centre at Kerry Town primarily provides care for local and international health-care workers who contract Ebola. The World… »
Health, International, Society
Canadian Forces personnel deployed to Sierra Leone to battle Ebola
The first Canadian military medical team to join the international efforts against Ebola in West Africa has arrived in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone. The 37 doctors, nurses, paramedics and support staff will be working in a British-run clinic, treating patients from… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Radioactivity from the Fukushima disaster rising in Pacific Ocean, off BC’s coast
After the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, in March 2011, water became contaminated by leeching radioactive material. A large plume of cesium particles spread across the Pacific Ocean… »
One very good year for debut novelist
“This year has been a complete remaking of my professional life.” Sean Michaels still appears to be part stunned, part amused, but entirely delighted by what 2014 brought him. The Scottish-born, Ottawa-raised, Montreal-based journalist has been writing for years. Articles… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, International, Society
Expos Nation forges ahead with plans and dreams
Befitting the month it was delivered, a frigid shower landed on the heads of the legion of baseball supporters in Montreal very much engaged in finding a way to bring Major League Baseball back to the city where it once… »
Olympic hockey men are 2014 team of the year
To the surprise of no one, the Olympic men’s hockey team has been voted the Canadian Press 2014 team of the year by sports editors and broadcasters across the country. It was a runaway choice. The men’s team received 36… »
Fate of Canadian listed on Italian ferry manifest unknown
There is confusion about whether or not a Canadian man was among those rescued from the Italian-flagged ferry that caught fire in the Adriatic Sea on Sunday, killing at least 10 people. Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs says it is… »
Region comes to aid of child orphaned by tragic fire
Residents of southwest Quebec and eastern Ontario are rallying to the cause of an eight-year-old boy who lost his entire family in a fire last week. Mathis Gagnon was the only member of his family of five to survive the… »
International, Politics, Society
Canadian journalist and Al Jazeera colleagues imprisoned in Egypt: one year on
It has been a year to the day since three Al Jazeera journalists were arrested in Cairo and imprisoned on charges that they conspired with the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood. For Mohamed Fahmy, the Canadian-Egyptian who headed the network’s English-language local… »
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