The latest report from Statistics Canada presents a dire picture of farming in Canada. The report says that in 2018, farmer’s net incomes dropped by 45.1 per cent on average. Mary Robinson is a sixth generation farmer in Prince Edward… »
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With our columns, learn more about topics as diverse as Canada’s place in the world, the Arctic, health, art, culture and the environment.
Canada files submission to establish continental shelf’s outer limits in Arctic Ocean
Canada filed its Arctic continental shelf submission with the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on Wednesday, claiming approximately 1.2 million square kilometres of the Arctic Ocean seabed and subsoil in an area that includes the North… »
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Asian Heritage Month in Canada: read our reports!
May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. The event gives the country a chance to showcase the culture, art and history of Asian Canadians. In this special section, Radio Canada International (RCI) presents profiles, reports and interviews highlighting the history… »
Internet, Science & Technology
University of Calgary journal targeted by serial ‘hijacker’ of scientific publications
A University of Calgary journal is the among the targets of a serial “hijacker” who has created fake versions of dozens of scientific publications over the last several years in an effort to scam money from researchers, according to an expert… »
Ice-capable Canadian Coast Guard ships could be both ‘a blessing and a curse’: expert
If reports that federal officials are considering equipping the Canadian Coast Guard with two ice-capable patrol ships are true, it could be both a blessing and a curse, says a Canadian expert on maritime strategy. On the one hand, these… »
Highlights, Indigenous, Longform, Society
Atikamekw maple syrup: an ancestral tradition passed on with passion
When Jean-Paul Echaquan talks about his grandfather who left Manawan every spring to go to the forest to collect maple sap, time stops. Suddenly, we see ourselves half a century earlier following the old Atikamekw in all the stages of… »
What’s making the muskoxen sick on Victoria Island? – Eye on the Arctic video archive
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. In today’s instalment, a video from our documentary archive. For at least a decade in Canada’s western Arctic, the muskoxen Inuit rely on for everything from food, to… »
Do mobility devices in the Arctic need a rethink? – Eye on the Arctic video archive
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North. In today’s instalment, a video from our documentary archive. Recovering from knee surgery isn’t easy for anyone, but for Jimmy Okhina Sr., living in Arctic Canada made it… »
Canadian Arctic report urges stronger ties with NATO, Indigenous communities, but weak on science, say experts
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from around the North The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development presented its report on the Arctic to Canada’s House of Commons on Wednesday, and northern experts are praising the… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Arctic officials struggle to find climate change language that U.S. can support
Senior diplomats from the eight Arctic Council countries meeting in Finland over the past few days have struggled to come up with language on climate change that the Trump administration would support at the upcoming ministerial meeting in May, according… »
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