The Congressional Medal is one of the highest honours the US can bestow on a non-American citizen. The award is given to “persons that have performed an achievement that has an impact on American history and culture that is likely… »
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Nelson Mandela celebration in Toronto
Nelson Mandela Park Public School was the scene of a celebration in Toronto today. The students, friends and family from far and wide came to honour the birthday of the man their school is named for. Mustafa Ahmed, a 16… »
Health, Indigenous, International, Society
Erik Tremblay chronicles Canadian humanitarian work
Erik Tremblay describes himself as a traveller. A journalist and videographer, it’s these skills he is employing on his 4-month journey through Peru, Nicaragua, Honduras and Haiti. He is there to chronicle the fruits of Canadian humanitarian projects up close.… »
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Trayvon Martin Vigil in Montreal last night
Trayvon Martin was remembered in a vigil in Montreal last night. 300 people gathered in a central square, following a severe thunderstorm that left thousands of Montrealer’s without power and working around downed trees. Martin was the unarmed black teenager… »
Passing of hugely respected Canadian jazzman, Peter Appleyard
Just a day after the announcement of the passing of painter Alex Colville, comes news that Canada has lost another world-class artist. Peter Appleyard passed away on Wednesday at age 84, of natural causes at his farm in Eden Mills,… »
Winnipeg teacher finalist for international Twitter award
Before actually jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, physical education teacher Blue Jay Bridge followed the conversations online among teachers for 8 months. But once he started tweeting, he couldn’t be stopped. Now, more than 11,000 tweets later, Bridge is up… »
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Sick days taken in public service: Veterans Affairs comes first, Foreign Affairs, last
Canadians can now easily find out the average of sick days taken in public departments. The statistics were quoted by worker’s unions, after the federal government announced it would overhaul the rules around sick days and disability leave in the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Unique Canadian effort to monitor ocean activity full-time
It is a unique and groundbreaking experiment and research resource On the ocean floor of the Pacific off the coast of Canada’s Vancouver Island, and now in the Arctic off Cambridge Bay, are large networks of scientific sensors. They’re all… »
Hungry aboriginal people used in Canadian nutritional experiments after WW2
Hundreds of malnourished aboriginal children and adults were used in experiments by Canadian federal bureaucrats in the 1940s, says a food historian. “It started with research trips in northern Manitoba where they found, you know, widespread hunger, if not starvation,… »
Rare pursuit by wolves in BC,and Yukon
It’s an extremely rare occurrence, but just in the past two months there have been two occasions of people being chased by wolves. Bartlett managed several photos of the wolf chasing him about a kilometre down the highway, here only… »
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