It is National Soil Conservation Week in Canada and this year that brings an amusing campaign to make Canadians more aware that all of civilization depends on a healthy 15cm of top soil. Without that crops would not grow. The… »
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Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
For “Earth Day” (Apr 22) think about bees
Around the world experts are noticing a decline in bee populations. Bees are the world’s most important pollinators of food crops and all plants. While we are aware of commercial honey bees, most pollination is done by wild bees. With… »
Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Housing summit in Toronto finds no simple answers
Housing in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, has been soaring in price for years now, but the recent news that an average home can cost almost a million dollars, and more than 12 times the average household’s gross annual income, had… »
Trump’s latest comments stoke fear over trade
U.S. President Donald Trump directly attacked Canada yesterday specifically taking aim at the dairy industry’s supply-management system. He threatened to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) unless there were substantial changes to what he called a “very… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
River piracy: Climate change and sudden surprise
Climate change makes an entire river disappear Researchers have documented the first case of “river piracy” or stream capture, in modern times. It’s not a theft, rather a geological term to indicate the source of one river has been taken… »
Economy, Health, International, Politics, Society
Airline overbooking leading to seat bumping can sure ruin a lot of well-planned trips, among other things
It hasn’t raised the kind of backlash that followed the bumping and roughing up of a 69-year-old doctor on the now-infamous United Airlines flight sitting on the tarmac last week in Chicago, but the experience of a Prince Edward Island… »
Health, International, Politics, Society
Children of war; happier in conflict than in peace?
It seems a strange situation, children who were happier in a rebel camp at war, than they are after they gain their freedom. These are children who were abducted as child fighters or female sex slaves, and camp workers, and… »
World’s largest film festival features Canadian talent
In celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary, there will be 1,700 events tomorrow including the screening of Canadian films and other activities across the country. National Canadian Film Day 150 is billed as the world’s largest one-day film festival. “It’s a… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
It’s Stanley Cup playoff season, everybody take a deep breath
Let the games begin, let the drama unfold, let the toothpicks be inserted into the bleary eyes of Canadians across the country, all of them up way to late with their eyes glued to their television sets. Penguins captain and… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Quebec City residents continue to seek answers as they grapple and sift the aftermath of January’s mosque attack
Shortly after dusk on Sunday Jan. 29, a young man named Alexandre Bissonnette, armed with a rifle, entered the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the city’s Sainte-Foy neighbourhood that serves as the spiritual home to the… »
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