Epic battle and Canada’s 100 days. By this time in the First World War, Canadian troops had come to be feared by the Germans as the best of the Entente (Allied) forces. The Canadian reputation had begun early in the… »
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Canadian Blood Services will expand, opening new plasma donation centres
Canadian Blood Services is opening three new plasma donation centres to ensure that the country’s blood supplies do not dwindle. Canada uses more human plasma products than any other country in the world after the U.S.. Most of it is… »
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Health care for seniors: possible election issue
Canadians love to vaunt the fact of our universal health care system. A new survey though shows that for many Canadians accessing the system is not quite what is often vaunted. While a majority indicated easy or moderate access to… »
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Members of Canada’s LGBTQ want Health Canada to amend blood donation wait times
Canadian LGBTQ advocates want Health Canada to go further in changing parts of its blood donation policy. The advocates are calling for a gender-neutral approach, building on changes made this spring when the federal agency reduced the wait period for… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Training brain surgeons with VR and AI
It’s a technology that is revolutionising surgical training. When a surgeon starts to work on you, you’d like them to be experienced. Typically though that comes with practice. Now as in the airline industry, that practice and dealing with unexpected… »
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Time is of the essence as Fraser River slide blocks spawning salmon
Time is critical to find a solution to a massive obstruction in British Columbia’s Fraser River as 90,000 salmon wait downstream and an estimated two million more sockeye are about to arrive, federal Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Tuesday. The… »
From patch to pie: The journey of a Quebec strawberry
Réjean Thivierge won’t settle for just any pie. Even though he left his old neighbourhood in downtown Quebec City years ago, he still drives in from the suburbs to get his fix, at the “Royaume de la Tarte” — the… »
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Food or cannabis? Farming questions in Canada
When the Liberal government of Canada legalised recreational use of cannabis late last year, it created a whole new industry virtually overnight. One aspect has been a massive rise in greenhouse building and conversion of former manufacturing plants into commercial… »
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Ottawa announces new funding to combat online child abuse
Ottawa has announced $22 million in funding to fight online child abuse. Noting that police-reported incidents of child pornography in Canada increased by 288 per cent between 2010 and 2017, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale made the announcement Tuesday. It… »
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Brothers, survivors of ‘Sixties Scoop,’ reunite after 50 years
Gradually, one reunion at a time, the healing continues. For a number of years now, victims of what is now called the Sixties Scoop are coming together–in love, fear and trepidation. The Sixties Scoop is a catch-all name for a… »
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