As Hurricane Matthew churned its way through the Caribbean and barreled toward Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba on Monday, governments and aid groups raced against time to try to soften its potentially catastrophic blow. The Category 4 storm, packing sustained winds of up to 220… »
Highlights
Campaigns seek to empower girls
Governments around the world are blind to the injustices facing millions of girls, says Plan International Canada, and this international development agency has launched a campaign to change that. A report it released today says there are no credible statistics… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Unknown soldiers: finally finding names, closure
It is at one and the same time a sad, but also rewarding task: discovering the identities of the unknown fallen soldiers on the battlefields around the world. In Canada that work is performed by a special department which works… »
Artist’s studio contents donated to university
The studio of celebrated Canadian painter Alex Colville says a lot about the man and now much of it will be available for the public to see on the campus of Mount Allison University in the eastern province of New… »
Economy, Highlights, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Canada- multiculturalism policy losing ground?
A new poll just released shows a somewhat surprising results about several Canadian attitudes. The comprehensive survey is called “What makes us Canadian? A study of values, beliefs, priorities and identity”. Almost 4,000 Canadians were polled in the September survey,… »
Restoring ties with Iran easier said than done: expert
News of Homa Hoodfar’s release from Iran’s infamous Evin prison has raised fresh hopes for a detente in Ottawa’s glacial relations with Tehran but a Canadian expert says restoring relations with the Islamic Republic is far from a done deal.… »
Canada, and the world’s, water crisis Pt 5 0f 5
Maude Barlow is national chairperson of the Council of Canadians © supplied This is the fifth in the five part series on the growing concern over access to fresh water. Maude Barlow’s new book looks at what is happening in Canada… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Over 40,600 acres of forest protected
Various groups and public agencies celebrated National Forest Week from September 18 to 24 to raise awareness about Canada’s forest heritage and its value. The Nature Conservancy of Canada used the occasion to announce 25 projects to acquire and protect… »
Quebecers, and Canadians, the same but different
Many people around the world will at least have heard of the separatist movement in the province of Quebec. It’s a movement that says, Quebec is different than Canada and so should travel its own path as a separate country.… »
Injuries from mobile-device overuse ‘debilitating’
Medical health professional are seeing an increasing number of injuries from overuse of mobile phones and other handheld devices and poor posture. Most common are injuries in the neck and thumbs. Studies have shown that looking down at a phone… »
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