Hundreds of thousands of coloured lights will go on at 7pm on December 5, 2018 at Canada’s Parliament building to kick off the holiday season. It is the launch of the 34th edition of Christmas Lights Across Canada and will… »
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Amazon loss still a win for Toronto: Mayor
Amazon ended the suspense yesterday with the announcement that its much coveted new headquarters would be split, between Long Island City, New York, and Arlington, Virginia. The American locations added lucrative incentives, USD$1.52 billion from New York, and USD$573 million… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Neil Young loses second home in California fire
Neil Young, the Canadian rock n’ roll legend, lost his home in the fires raging in California along with several other celebrities such as Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth, actor Gerard Butler, and Robin Thicke. “Firefighters have never seen anything… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Unique habitat in Canadian Rockies expanded, preserved
Canada’s Darkwoods Conservation Area may soon grown by 7,900 hectares ensuring the protection of essential habitat for almost 40 confirmed species at risk. These include grizzly bears, wolverines, peregrine falcons, mountain caribou and whitebark pine. The area will now measure… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Health, International, Politics, Society
Olympic bid a pass in Calgary
Olympic memories were perhaps more negative than positive yesterday as the people of Calgary voted on whether to host the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. The question was simply, “Are you for or against Calgary hosting the 2026 Olympic Winter Games?”… »
Economy, International, Politics
How the press and politics have evolved in Canada (and likely elsewhere) (part 2 of 2)
Book: Power, Prime Ministers and the Press: The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill In the beginning was politics, shortly after came the press. In the early days in Canada, and undoubtedly elsewhere, newspapers –print journalism- was very biased. Papers… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
G20 not meeting Paris climate change targets
A coalition of climate groups says industrialized and emerging nations of the G20 must cut emissions by about half by 2030 in order to meet the targets set at the Paris conference in 2015. Climate Transparency has issued a report… »
Arts & Entertainment, Indigenous, Society
McGill University pressured to change sports team name
For almost 100 years some of the sports teams of Montreal’s McGill University have been had the nickname the “Redmen”. For the past few years that name has been labelled by some as being disrespectful to indigenous students. The Student… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Donations enable hundreds of refugees to settle in Canada
A handful of philanthropic leaders donated almost $3.5 million triggering an effort that will enable 685 refugees refugees to settle in Canada before the end of 2018. Had this not occurred, a government allowance of more than 1,000 spots for… »
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Viola Desmond: North America’s first civil rights pioneer- featured on banknote
After much debate about who should be portrayed on the next series of Canadian banknotes, it was announced in 2016 that Viola Desmond would be among those to be featured. Years before American Rosa Parks protested for her civil rights… »
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