It started out as an art project, but circumstances changed and it became an artistically inspired documentary look at the former shortwave service. It deals in part with the history of the shortwave transmission site, its massive antenna array, and… »
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Environment & Animal Life, Health
Toxic brine from desalination plants threatens marine environments, UN report
Millions of cubic metres of chemical laden brine produced daily by thousands of desalination plants worldwide threaten marine environments and ecosystems, according to a new UN study conducted in Canada. Globally desalination plants discharge about 142 million litres of hypersaline… »
Most of Quebec’s long guns still unregistered with deadline fast approaching
With the deadline for Quebec gun owners to register their firearms just over two weeks away, the vast majority of guns in the province remain unregistered, according to government statistics. Quebec instituted its own provincial registry for non-restricted firearms or… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Health, Politics, Society
Concerns about civil rights over new drunk driving law
New drunk driving laws have come into effect in Canada, and have caused quite a stir in the legal community not the least of which involves civil rights issues Micheal Engel (BA, LLB) has a legal practice in Toronto specialising… »
Libraries call for more access to digital books
Canadian public libraries say multinational publishers are not making best-selling titles in e-book or e-audiobook formats available to them just as demand is skyrocketing. When the digital forms are made are available, the libraries say prices are excessively high and… »
Trudeau shuffles cabinet in last tune-up before elections
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet Monday in a bid to replace a veteran minister who stepped down last week and to reinvigorate his front bench with some fresh blood ahead of federal elections in October. In a carefully… »
New stamps are pretty but more expensive
Canada Post has issued a new set of stamps featuring spectacular scenes from different parts of the country at the same time as the cost of mailing a letter increases. The issue is the second set of stamps in the… »
International, Politics, Society
China invokes death sentence for a Canadian
A Canadian in jail in China on drug charges has now been sentenced to death. Already in jail on drug trafficking charges, 36-year-old Robert Schellenberg was retried this week and had is original 15 year sentenced increased to the death… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics
Granting Saudi teen asylum fits Canadian policy
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland welcomed 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun at Toronto’s airport on January 12, 2019 calling her “a brave new Canadian.” Canada quickly granted asylum to the teenager upon a request from the United Nations High Commissioner… »
Former RCI transmitter site – slow transformation
The former RCI transmitter site near Sackville New Brunswick, sold to a First Nations group, is now in the process of being absorbed into native reserve land and some as yet undetermined use. During the Second World War as Canada… »
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