Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. This week, we bring you another instalment of our occasional series looking at how climate change is affecting not only the Canadian North, but different parts of the… »
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Trade talks: no deal, talks resume Wednesday
Trade talks ended in Washington D. C, this afternoon with no deal, despite President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on cars made in Canada. Canada ships 1.4 million cars to the United States each year. Efforts to update and… »
Unique guitar damaged by airline
Musician Remi Claude Arsenault posted on Facebook that “my best friend appears to have been stabbed by a forklift” after finding his guitar was damaged at an airport. The handmade 1978 Larivee guitar was transported on an Air Canada flight… »
Hooray for (N American) Football… but whose?
The US and Canadian games are different, so which do Canadians prefer Lacrosse is the official Canadian summer sport, but most Canadians might be surprised to learn that. Soccer, perhaps “the” world sport is very slowly gaining popularity, but has… »
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TIFF new Executive Director, Joana Vicente
TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the most popular festivals in the world, named Oscar-nominated producer and film executive Joana Vicente as its new executive director and co-head. The appointment, announced on Tuesday, comes just a week before… »
Opioid deaths stable in Nova Scotia, considered progress
The eastern province of Nova Scotia considers its strategy on illegal opioid use to be a success because there was no increase in overdose deaths in the past year. Across Canada in 2017, 3,671 people died with the highest number… »
Cannabis roadside test will face legal challenges, says lawyer
As the recreational use of cannabis will be legalized in October 2018, the Canadian government has just approved a test to ensure people are not driving under the influence of the drug. But there are problems with the Drager Drug… »
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International Space Station had a leak
International Space Station astronauts are at work repairing a hole that was detected last night. The leak is coming from a two-millimetre hole in the orbital compartment of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft in the Russian segment, a section that does… »
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Trade talks down to the wire in Washington
Trade talks to update and modernise the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), are in the final hours in Wasihington, if the Canadian delegation is to meet American President Donald Trump’s deadline, tomorrow. Following Monday’s surprise announcement of a deal,… »
Canadian province sues drug companies over opioids
The west coast province of British Columbia has seen a particularly high toll in deaths from opioid overdoses., over 1,400 alone last year Canada as whole recorded approximately 4,000 opioid related drug deaths. In a first in Canada, British Columbia… »
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