Planting trees has been a tough but popular summer job for students, but more young people are having trouble finding full-time jobs in the fields they studied and are making tree-planting a full-time career. There are plenty tree-planting jobs available… »
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ARTS- Michael Fantuz- artist painter
This week another of Canada’s wonderful painters whose artwork is more than worthy to collect and admire Last week we spoke to Christopher Walker and his Pacific west coast inspired artwork and this week we travel several thousand kilometres across… »
Gaelic Awareness Month- Nova Scotia
May is Gaelic Awareness Month in Nova Scotia. The Gaelic influence in Canada has been tremendous, but the Gaelic presences, primarily Scottish is still very strong in the east coast province of Nova Scotia. Lewis MacKinnon-executive director of the provincial… »
Too few children get early dental care: dentists
Canadian dentists recommend children first see a dentist by the age of 12 months but a recent study shows less than two per cent has seen one by the age of two. That could be why almost half the children… »
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Politics Today – May 11, 2014
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on the Canadian government’s decision to put on hold its reform of Indigenous First Nation education in Canada. He also reports on the controversy over comments the Prime Minister made… »
Winds of change for Canadian labour?
For the thousands of union delegates at this week’s Canadian Labour Congress convention in Montreal, it was clear they were participants and witnesses of a historic change in Canada’s labour movement. An incumbent president of 15 years had been defeated… »
Canada: April’s unemployment rate unchanged but underemployment lowest since 2001
Canada’s government gathering agency Statistics Canada reported Friday (May 9) that the unemployment rate in April was unchanged from March at 6.9%, even though employment decreased by 29,000 jobs compared to March, 2014. According to the agency’s Labour Force Survey, in April,… »
Health, International, Politics, Society
Polio, a public health emergency: WHO
The world has come close several times to eradicating the crippling disease that is polio, but a resurgence of the virus in several countries has prompted the World Health Organization(WHO) to declare an international public health emergency. ‘Tantalizingly close’ to… »
Economy, Health, International, Society
Mother’s day: Canadians like their mothers; dads don’t fare as well
In Canada, and many other countries, the second Sunday in May is called “Mother’s day” a time for children to show appreciation to their mothers. This year it occurs on May 9th. A recent survey however has shown that mothers… »
Canada’s National Day of Honour
The Canadian government has declared today as the “National Day of Honour” to commemorate the end of the Canadian presence in Afghanistan and to honour the military personnel who served, and those who died.. With a 12 year presence in… »
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