New figures from Statistics Canada show the employment gap between immigrants and Canadian-born workers has reached its lowest level since 2006, the first year it studied. The research showed 78.9 per cent of newcomers aged 25 to 54 are in… »
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Canadian Mint to issue coins celebrating D-Day and gay rights
The Royal Canadian Mint will issue commemorate coins in 2019 to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944 and the 50th anniversary of Parliament’s decriminalizing homosexual acts in 1969. The D-Day landing marked the start… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
No movement reported in China-Canada political dispute
The fraught–sometimes overwrought–relations between Canada and China continue to simmer and bubble up following the arrest of the chief financial officer of the Chinese techno giant Huawei at Vancouver Airport on Dec. 1. Meng Wanzhou’s arrest at the request of… »
Feeling blue? Here’s some tonic!
EDITOR’S NOTE: As we prepare to enter a new year, this story is for all of us devolving into cynicism, for all of us viewing with alarm the hardening of our hearts, for all of us of who have lost… »
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My favourite story of 2018: the bridge from space
Confederation Bridge, the fixed link to Canada’s tiny island province of Prince Edward Island, is the only human-made creation that astronauts can see from the International Space Station (ISS). “I’ve had the chance to see P.E.I. from space” This is… »
Arts & Entertainment, Health, Immigration & Refugees, International
Debbie Travis’ latest book: Design Your Next Chapter
Debbie Travis, the serial TV host and entrepreneur, has a new book out, sharing her insights and experience in personal transformation, as well as several other people’s amazing stories. When I spoke to her during the week before Christmas, she… »
Trade troubles dominate 2018 in Canada
Trade has been one of the dominant foreign affairs issues for Canada this year, and the situation has deteriorated significantly as we enter the new year. The arrest and detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei CFO, in Vancouver, at the request… »
Virtue and Moir claim another title: team of the year
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who led the Canadian Olympic Team into the opening ceremonies at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea and then went out and won the the gold medal in ice dancing with a record-breaking… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Dire warnings are renewed about melting Canadian glaciers
Scientists are issuing renewed–and dire–warnings about the fate of Canadian mountain glaciers. They say the glaciers are receding at a dramatic rate–the result of less snow and rapid melt. “Probably 80 per cent of the mountain glaciers in Alberta and… »
Kingsbury adds another honour to his 2018 year
For the first time ever, a ski athlete has won Canadian Press’s Lionel Conacher Award as Canada’s top male athlete. It a took a gold medal run in the moguls finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the Pyeongchange 2018 Winter… »
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