Civil liberty groups in Canada and around the world want to know about the deals that are made between intelligence agencies to share information. They want access to the agreements between agencies and to policies they have to protect privacy.… »
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High risk Canadian imports made with child labour, says charity
A World Vision report says there are more consumer products coming in to Canada that risk having been produced with child labour. The relief agency says there are 85 million children doing dirty, dangerous or degrading work around the world.… »
Uneven help for stroke victims: report
The latest report from Heart & Stroke Foundation found “extensive gaps in recovery support and services for Canadians who experience stroke at any age.” Every year, about 62,000 Canadians of all ages suffer this sudden stop of blood flow to… »
Arts & Entertainment, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Society
Eye on the Arctic: Video Archive
In the days before mass media reached the remote corners of Canada, before Twitter and Facebook, the art and artists of Canada’s Arctic were the main conduit for northerners to communicate their culture and communities to the rest of the… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
A dinosaur researcher’s dream; T. rex skin!
It’s something paleontologists dream about, and now for the very first time a positively identified fossil of T. rex skin has been found. In fact a number of skin fossils were found on expeditions in the badlands of Alberta, in… »
Group urges a return to school equity
Officially, public education is free in Canada but, in recent decades, parents have raised money for enhancements and there is concern that means some schools are able to offer more to students than others. Equity ‘since the very beginning’ “Canada…was… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Evidence of water on the “red planet”
In 2012 a major and highly technical machine landed 250 million kilometres away from Earth, on the surface of Mars. The Mars “Curiousity” rover landing was a success and the equipment began transmitting data back to Earth. Its main mission… »
Criminal law changes would better protect sex-assault victims
The government of Canada is proposing changes to its Criminal Code to better protect the victims of sexual assault, to make sure new laws conform to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and to get rid of some archaic provisions. The law… »
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New research: We’re on the brink of mass extinction
In the history of the Earth, there have been five mass extinctions when three-quarters (or more) of life on our planet was wiped out. They have all previously been “natural” such as an impact from a large asteroid, or from… »
More debate about social media and terrorism
After the latest terrorist attacks in Great Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May said: “We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it (terrorism) needs to breed. Yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies… provide.” Tech companies… »
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