A police officer in the city of Victoria, British Columbia has posted some tips for drivers on the police website. The tips come from actual incidents he witnessed during the course of his duties while at various road traffic checkpoints.… »
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More drones require more privacy rules: researcher
Unmanned aerial vehicles are already flying over Canada and their increasing use has at least one researcher saying there need to be rules put in place to protect the privacy of citizens. Drones are used by law enforcement agencies and… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Global warming: 99% certainty “not natural”
A Canadian scientist has studied the issue of the causes of global warming and resultant climate change, from an entirely different direction. Shaun Lovejoy (PhD) is a professor of Physics at McGill University in Montreal, and president of non-linear processes… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Politics, Society
Protesters want moratorium on cuts at national public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada
A noisy demonstration Wednesday (April 15) by employees, unionists, and some politicians in front of the French headquarters of CBC/Radio-Canada called for a moratorium on cuts at the national radio and television public broadcaster. The $130 million dollars and 657 job… »
Supreme Court to hear rejected refugee claims
Canada’s highest court will hear three appeals in cases where people were denied refugee status because they were allegedly involved in people smuggling. Two of the cases involve an individual and a couple who were aboard the MV Sun Sea,… »
Arts & Entertainment, International
US rules on ivory, snag musicians
Musicians, especially of classical music, have been rethinking plans to travel in or out of the United States. Many of their instruments contain small bits of ivory and there is a fear they will be confiscated by US Customs. The… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Canada parries pipeline criticism by Nobel winners
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has responded sharply to a letter signed by Nobel laureates urging the U.S. president to reject the building of the Keystone pipeline that would carry bitumen from Canada’s oilsands through the United States to Texas… »
Brain starts to slow down at 24, study suggests
The analysis of a group of people playing the popular strategy video game Starcraft 2 revealed that age-related brain performance starts declining at 24 years. Researchers at Simon Fraser University studied 3,305 people, mostly men, aged 16 to 44, as… »
International, Politics, Society
Terrorist video threat against Canada and “America”
A new video has surfaced on the internet in which a fundamentalist Islamic fighter directly threatens Canada and then the US and Obama. Michel Juneau-Katsuya is a former senior manager and intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Canada needs a green revolution: environmentalists
A global, clean energy revolution is coming to deal with climate change and Canada needs to get on board or get left behind, says Ian Bruce, science and policy manager at the David Suzuki Foundation, a leading environmental group. The… »
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