LGBTQ refugees arrive from countries all over the world, seeking safety and a better life in Canada. But proving their need for refugee status, has been a challenging and sometimes humiliating process for many. On Monday, the Immigration and Refugee… »
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Economy, Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Grocery shopping: How do you make your choices?
How do food shoppers make their choices…that’s the question being studied at the University of Guelph. A special type of lab to study the question has been created, in fact, it’s unique..possibly in the world. Michael von Massow is a… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Climate change and the wine industry
In some of the traditional European wine regions, climate change has become a serious concern for their future. In Canada, where wines in the past several years have begun to win international competitions, there is both good news, and bad… »
Campaign seeks to boost mental health care, awareness
Canada spends proportionally less than do other wealthy countries on mental health care. Chronic underfunding means many people are not treated and that costs the Canadian economy $51billion a year just in the workplace, says Mark Henick of the Canadian… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Expo `67 celebrated in Montreal
Expo `67 opened officially 50 years ago today. The celebration of the Canadian Centennial year in Montreal, was the biggest World`s Fair ever. Buckminster Fuller’s iconic geodesic dome is still part of the landscape on the Expo site. It was… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Crab, insects’ 508 million-year-old ancestor revealed
Paleontologists are excited to have found an unusually well-preserved creature that sheds light on the origins of millipedes, crabs and insects. Scientists at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum found a new fossil species in the Burgess… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Better climate adaptation strategies needed across the Arctic
Climate change continues to transform the Arctic at an unprecedented rate but adaptation strategies continue to lag behind, says a series of new international reports released on Tuesday. The Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) issued the reports as… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Conservation group seeks volunteers to help species at risk
It’s National Volunteer Week in Canada and people are urged to get involved in one of several events organized by the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC). The invitation notes that Canada has 733 wildlife species at risk and that the… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
New study finds much higher methane release from oil and gas fracking
The environmental “footprint” of fracking and the oil and gas industry is about to change dramatically, and not for the better. A new study by the environmental group David Suzuki Foundation and St Francis Xavier University, shows about 50 percent… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Lumber wars: Duties and penalties as tactics
The cards are stacked- H Nelson Late Monday, the United States announced it would impose immediate countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports of up to 24 percent. It also said the duties were retroactive to imports of 90 days… »
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