Most Canadian mothers do not live with their extended families and are likely to turn to professionals for advice on how to feed their babies. Changes in scientific findings have led to changes in the recommendations made jointly by the… »
Highlights
Snatched baby returned to parents
The vast majority of Canadian women give birth in hospitals and hospitals are public places with open doors, so it was not difficult for a woman to put on nurse’s garb and walk off with a newborn on Monday evening… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Highlights, Indigenous
Board urges protection of caribou lands
In the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, the Nunavut Planning Commission (NPC) has been advised again to place restrictions on development plans in caribou ranges. The animals are very sensitive to development activities and numbers of several herds have been… »
New libraries created for remote native reserves
A judge and a former police officer promoting literacy among indigenous people have inspired the creation of six new libraries on remote reserves in the western province of British Columbia. Of the more than 600 First Nations in Canada, fewer… »
Canada to permit use of electronic devices during plane takeoffs, landings
Canada’s Transport Minister Lisa Raitt has announced air passengers will now be allowed to use portable electronic devices throughout a plane’s journey, even takeoff and landing. The devices will still have to be in “Airplane Mode” and not connected to… »
Canada and India’s new PM Narendra Modi – Trade, diaspora, and human rights
Monday’s (May 26) swearing in of Narendra Modi as the new Prime Minister of India, not only raises questions about the future in India, but also in Canada, both in the Indian diaspora, and in the larger Canadian mainstream eager… »
Celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th, at Canada’s Stratford festival
It began as a dream called the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada. Tom Patterson was a journalist in Stratford on Avon, Ontario, namesake of Shakespeare’s birthplace in England. Patterson wanted to revitalize his town’s economy by creating a theatre festival… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Genetic breakthrough helps predict autism
Researchers in Toronto have found a new way to predict autism very early in a child’s life which will help them get the early intervention so critical to improving their condition. Autism affects one in every 68 children, impairing their… »
New survey of deadly hitchhiking habits
These images are of 18 women and girls disappeared on or near the Highway of Tears in British Columbia. © Individual photos from highwayoftears.ca There will be yet another study of hitchhiking on a remote Canadian highway associated with the disappearance… »
International, Politics, Society
Ukraine’s new president facing growing violence
Ukraine has elected a new president even as fighting against alleged Ukrainian pro-Russian rebels continued around the Donesk airport. Lubomyr Luciuk (PhD) is a Ukrainian and military specialist in the Department of Political Science at the Royal Military College in… »
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