Canada must do more to promote electric vehicles to meet its goals of reducing greenhouse gases and also to reap economic benefits, reports the think-tank Clean Energy Canada. In 2016, only 0.6 per cent of car sales in Canada were… »
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Fishing diplomacy, rethinking China & how Twitter is improving northern news : 2017 Arctic Year in Review
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North The end of the year is a time to take stock. Here at Eye on the Arctic, it’s also the time when we check in with our bloggers… »
Canadians’ interests revealed in Google searches
Hurricane Irma was one of the topics most searched by Canadians in 2017, according to the 17th annual survey of top-trending searches on Google. The hurricane that battered the Caribbean and Florida starting on August 30th was also widely searched… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Space traveller: interstellar visitor excites astronomers
Alien spacecraft? It’s a huge cigar-shaped object unlike anything seen before, and it came from deep space. Because it is so unusual, there has been some (not too serious) speculation that it may be an ancient alien spacecraft. The object… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics
UNICEF struggles to meet needs of Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Jean-Jacques Simon is worried about vaccination. The Canadian spokesperson for the United Nations children’s agency in Bangladesh needs to find money to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children who have fled a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing in their… »
Food prices, trends to change in Canada: report
The price of food is expected to increase two to three per cent for Canadians in 2018 and food trends will likely change to meet the growing demand for convenience, according to the Food Price Report. This report was prepared… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
Coal investments subvert Canada’s climate policy: advocacy group
Canadian pension funds and corporations are subverting federal government efforts to phase out coal worldwide, says John Bennett, senior policy advisor with the Friends of the Earth Canada. Canada named 8th largest investor in coal In October 2017, Canada teamed… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Mystery solved in curling: what makes rocks curl?
In the sport of curling, it is sometimes essential that the rocks bend around an opponents stone. But what makes it do that? Researcher Edward Lozowski (PhD) spent four years unravelling the mystery. He is professor emeritus of Earth and… »
Canadian orchestra offers musical journey through multicultural landscape
It’s the quintessential Canadian Christmas concert. But don’t count on hearing the usual fare of familiar Christmas tunes. What the Orchestre symphonique de Laval (OSL) has in store for its Dec. 13 concert in Laval, the northern suburb of Montreal,… »
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Supreme Court rules on cell phone privacy issue
Canada’s highest court has handed down a verdict in connection with police searches of cell phones and a citizen’s right to privacy. The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) case began with two different lower court cases in Canada, but is… »
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