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Economy, International, Politics

UPDATED: Trudeau won’t fly to Europe to sign CETA

The Canadian delegation will not be travelling to Brussels to sign a free trade agreement with the European Union on Wednesday evening, Canadian officials say. “Canada remains ready to sign this important agreement when Europe is ready,” Alex Lawrence, the »

Arts & Entertainment, International, Society

For Canadians, a key element is missing from this year’s World Series

Baseball’s World Series got underway Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio. Blue Jays players and fans were glum after the Indians won game five of American League Championship Series. Both players and fans must go through another winter wondering about what might »

Health, Internet, Science & Technology

Genetic evidence exonerates Canadian ‘Patient Zero’ in the U.S. AIDS epidemic

Genetic evidence has exonerated the Canadian man widely blamed for introducing HIV to the United States and sparking the epidemic that has killed nearly 700,000 people so far, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Researchers used newly »

Economy, Society

Canada grapples with alleged murders of eight seniors

Canadians across the country, especially in Ontario, are trying to make sense of what police say is a series of murders at two long-term care facilities in the southwestern part of the province. Forty-nine-year-old Elizabeth Wettlaufer of Woodstock, a nurse, »

Arts & Entertainment, Highlights, International, Society

Rising Canadian star to join F1 circus

Many international fans will remember with fondness, the late Canadian F1 star, Gilles Villeneuve, one of the most popular and exciting drivers of his time. Another young Canadian may now be set to take up Villeneuve’s mantel. Only 17, with »

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Canada places 30th in gender gap disparities

The World Economic Forum has issued a shocking (if not surprising) report on the wage disparity between men and women. Canada did not do especially well, ranking 30th in the world, having closed 74 per cent of its gender gap. »

Economy, International, Society

Canada at the culinary olympics- Gold, and more gold!

It is called the Internationale Kochkunst Ausstellung (IKA), and the IKA International Olympiade der Koche. It is an international culinary arts exposition and olympic-like competition.  Held every four years, like the Olympic sporting event, it attracts the best chefs from »

Economy, Highlights, Politics, Society

Is the Canadian 5-cent coin on life support?

(comments to all stories can be made at the bottom of the page) “ A penny for your thoughts?”,  “Here’s my 2-cents worth…..” These are sayings that are fading fast in Canada since the penny, the one-cent coin, was discontinued »

Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics

MPs vote unanimously to bring Yazidi refugees to Canada

In a rare moment of national unity Canadian parliamentarians set aside political squabbling yesterday to unanimously support a motion that formally recognizes the ISIS persecution of Yazidis as a genocide and pledges to bring refugees fleeing the violence to Canada within »

Immigration & Refugees, Society

Canadians still see immigration in positive light: survey

Despite growing anti-immigrant sentiments in much of the Western world, most Canadians continue to view immigration as a net benefit for the country, according to a new national survey. The survey, released today by the Environics Institute for Survey Research, »