A retired police officer pleaded guilty to 10 money-laundering charges in the United States yesterday after being convicted and fined in Canada for smuggling narwhal whale tusks. Gregory R. Logan faces up to 20 years in prison and a $500,000… »
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Immigration & Refugees, Society
Record number of newcomers arrive in Canada
Government census figures reveal that 320,932 newcomers came to Canada in the past year. That’s the highest number on record. Among them were thousands of Syrian refugees who began arriving in November 2015 and now number over 30,000. New arrivals… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canada’s first “Dark Sky community”
A small town in western Canada has become the country’s first official “dark sky community”. Named last year, the town celebrated this month during its annual Equinox festival with a number of nighttime activities. These included special guest speaker, Canadian… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Climate change could expose Cold War relic and its toxic contents
It sounds like something from the X-Files: an abandoned top-secret nuclear weapons program, buried deep under Greenland’s ice sheet comes back to haunt humanity with its toxic contents. But Camp Century is not a figment of Hollywood’s imagination but a… »
Montreal language school accused of defrauding foreign students
It bills itself as “one of Montreal’s oldest language schools” but College Platon located in the city’s trendy Plateau neighbourhood is facing accusations of defrauding foreign students, according to reports by Radio-Canada’s French-language investigative show La Facture. Over the last… »
Government failing to protect privacy of citizens, says watchdog
Canada’s privacy commissioner says the government has not properly assessed the impacts on citizens’ privacy since it passed its sweeping anti-terrorist law incorporating Bill C-51. In his annual report, Commissioner Daniel Therrien expressed surprise that many government agencies did not examine how… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Canada, and the world’s, water crisis Pt-3
Who owns the water? Trans-national giants buy up water rights for very little, and make enormous profit while putting the future supplies in danger. Maude Barlow’s new book looks at what is happening in Canada and around the world. It’s… »
Vancouver has highest risk housing bubble will burst
The Swiss bank UBS has rated Canada’s western city of Vancouver as having world’s greatest risk of a sudden downward correction in its housing market. However, the assessment came before a new tax was imposed that cooled the housing market… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Blackberry bails from making smartphones
The Canadian high-tech firm BlackBerry is considered by many to be the father of the smartphone industry. At one time ubiquitous among business people, and the “hip”. BlackBerry had been losing market share as other manufacturers created more attractive technologies.… »
Newspapers seek government help to go digital
Several newspapers in the province of Quebec have banded together to ask that the government set up a fund to help them shift to digital, reports Canadian Press. The newspapers are suffering from a steep decline in revenues, because so… »
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