A Canadian animal rights group has released another disturbing undercover video of a commercial farming operation.. After undercover videos at commercial pig farms and battery egg production, the group sent a member to a commercial veal production operation in the… »
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‘Résistance’ is Quebec art biennial’s theme this year
“Resistance… is exceptionally important at this particular moment in time…[of] mass protests, financial downfall, chronic recession ,” says Vicky Chainey Gagnon, the curator of the 2014 edition of the Quebec City biennial, Manif d’art 7. The month-long exhibition of contemporary… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Canadians asked to ‘take action’ on Earth Day
The Governor General of Canada is marking Earth Day by asking all Canadians to “take action, to speak out and to foster change in favour of a more sustainable way of life—for the sake of humanity and all living things.”… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International
Crops versus bees, new regs for Ontario.
In an effort to protect pollinating bees, Ontario farmers are being told to change some habits as they plant seeds this season. The vast majority of corn and soybean seeds now come pre-coated with a type of insecticide known as… »
Dating website for farmers targets Canada
An online dating site called FarmersOnly is launching an advertising campaign to get more members in Canada. Although the website originated in the U.S., ten per cent of its 1.5 million members are Canadian, and it boasts at least one… »
Providing homes to the homeless is successful
A ground-breaking study could change the way homeless people with mental illnesses are treated in Canada. Currently the focus is on providing short-term, emergency shelter. But this study suggests a better approach is to try to get people into permanent… »
Economy, International, Politics, Society
Canadian comic book celebrates May 1st, International Workers’ Day
For most Canadians May 1st, is just another day in the year. And unlike people in numerous other countries, few celebrate International Workers’ Day. For most in Canada and the United States, North America’s alternative Labour Day, the first Monday… »
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Canadian short story writer Alistair MacLeod, dead at 77
Best known for his short stories of Cape Breton Island on Canada’s Atlantic coast, Alistair MacLeod died at the age of 77, on Sunday (April 20). He had been in hospital ever since having a stroke in January. Born in… »
Canadian government stops survey questions on its own economic policies
Canada’s Ministry of Finance has ordered its pollsters “to stop asking Canadians potentially embarrassing questions about its Economic Action Plan advertising”, according to a report by Canadian Press journalist Dean Beeby. The advertising promoting the Economic Action Plan is described… »
Waitresses lose jobs to foreign workers
Canadian, Sandy Nelson chokes back tears as she talks about losing her long-term serving job in the western province of Saskatchewan to temporary foreign workers. Co-worker Shaunna Jennison-Yung is in the same situation. Canadian employers have been allowed to hire… »
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