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Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Society

Challenge to remove sunken and abandoned B.C. boats continues unabated

Conservative estimates place the number of abandoned boats along Canada’s West Coast at around 1,400. Don’t quote that number to John Roe. Roe, a retired motorcycle mechanic and industrial welder, is the leader of the Dead Boat Disposal Society, which »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology

New study shows trees attacked by insects warn their relatives

Unlike the tree-like Ents in the Harry Potter film that have a language, trees don’t actually talk of course, but new research shows they do have a way of communicating with each other. It is the first study to show »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International

Amazon rainforest fires: world concern

Fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are up over 145 per cent from last year according to Greenpeace, and many are blaming it directly on human causes.  In fact many, including French President Emmanuel Macron, lay the blame at the foot »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society

As Canadian aquaculture grows, hard questions are being asked

Two new reports by Fisheries and Oceans Canada do not bode well for future of a lot of fish–mainly cod and salmon struggling to survive in Canadian waters off both Coasts. Let’s start with Atlantic cod, who are not doing »

International, Society

Bianca heads to the Big Apple, heart on sleeve, racket in hand

It is now time for the next chapter of “How I Enjoyed My Fabulous Summer” by Bianca Andreescu, the force of nature who hit the international tennis scene this spring in a place called Indian Wells, California, disappeared for a »

Politics, Society

Peaceful pressure pays off as prison farms reopen

From a distance, a gathering in front of of a federal prison near Kingston, Ontario last Thursday might not appear to be all that big a deal, but virtually everyone there would likely tell you they were celebrating a victory »

International, Society

In another show of courage, al-Hathloul again defies Saudi authorities

I missed it last week when it came across the wires. Perhaps you did as well. It’s a story that bears repeating. It involves a person who lived among us here in Canada from 2009 to 2013 as she was »

Economy, Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

New study warns of climate change’s (extra) ill-effects on children

We’re getting used to–and, hopefully, not inured–the pictures of ice cascading from what were once the shores of Greenland, the photos of people around the world grappling with record-high temperatures, wildfires that seem to erupt pretty much anywhere they might »

International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society

Another meeting set to grapple with what to do about so-called ‘killer robots’

Representatives from 80 countries, including Canada, begin a three-day meeting on Monday to take another stab at coming up with of plan to deal with autonomous weapons, a.k.a. killer robots. Delegates to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the »

Politics, Society

Racial profiling ruling in Montreal called “historic”

As Montrealers of good faith continue to try to bring an end to what the city’s black community says is systemic abuse and profiling that’s been happening for way longer than too many of them care to remember, a Quebec »