A Canadian woman is faced with a million-dollar medical bill even though she bought travel insurance before giving birth abroad. Canadians often travel to warmer climes when the weather gets cold and are routinely advised to buy special insurance to… »
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Co-op reclaims ugly fruit and vegetables
The Canadian food industry throws out as much as 20 per cent of produce that doesn’t look nice, but there is a growing movement to reclaim the food and sell it, reports The Globe and Mail newspaper. It’s estimated that… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Beware the killer shrimp
It’s small, really small, but apparently savage. The scientific name for this creature originating in eastern Europe in the Black Sea is Dikerogammarus Villosus. It and its nasty cousin Dikerogammarus haemobaphes, are only about 2-3cm long, but Hugh MacIsaac, a… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
How a study of Mars weather can help forecasting on Earth
There is weather, there is climate, and now there is macroweather. All three are being studied on Mars. The idea is to help understand weather dynamics on Earth. Shaun Lovejoy PhD is a professor of Physics at McGill University in… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Official Opposition calls for government action on climate change after China-U.S. deal
With the first questions in the Canadian House of Commons Question Period this week, the Official Opposition NDP party demanded the government take action on climate change following what they called an ” historic U.S.-China deal to tackle emissions”. But… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
U.K. groups protest Canadian oilsands lobbying
Demonstrators from five U.K. groups demonstrated against “the Canadian government aggressively promoting tar sands oil in Europe” in London, England today. They unfurled a banner depicting “the devastation” caused by oilsands development at an annual meeting of the Canada Europe… »
Ruling Conservatives win by-elections, despite strong showing by opposition Liberals
Canada’s ruling Conservative Party hung on to two seats in the House of Commons after by-elections in two ridings elected Conservative candidates on Monday (November 17). However in one riding, Whitby-Oshawa in Canada’s most populous province of Ontario, the opposition… »
Canadian regulator concerned by impact of rerouting of stock-trade orders to U.S.
Canada’s biggest securities regulator, the Ontario Securities Commission in the province of Ontario, is looking into stock trading that is being rerouted through U.S. broker-dealers by Canadian banks and other big dealers, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal… »
Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Society
Groups urge continued aid for refugee claimants
More than 160 organizations have written to the finance minister urging him to drop a clause in the latest budget legislation that would allow provinces to cut funding for refugee claimants. As it now stands, provincial and territorial governments provide… »
Tattoo removal gone wrong; permanent scars
It seems like such a cool idea, especially when you’re young. A tattoo to express yourself in a variety of different ways. However, what seems cool at first may become less cool in later life. Unfortunately tattoos are fairly permanent… »
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