Mountain Equipment Co-op, the outdoor equipment company that has thrived in Canada over the last 47 years, is now awakening to the diversity of the country. “We need to represent the diversity that is Canada, and if we don’t, we… »
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International, Politics, Society
Canada must act to protect independent journalism, says lawyer
A Canadian lawyer is calling on the government to change Canada’s law so that a criminal act against a journalist carries a stiffer than usual penalty. Toronto lawyer David Butt says this would send a message to the world about… »
International, Politics, Society
WWI-The Last 100 Days- led by Canada
Canadian War Museum exhibit Almost as soon as they entered the front lines in 1915, the Canadians began to earn the respect of both friend and foe. By 1918, Canadians were considered to be the best troops of the war.… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Trudeau apologizes for past exclusion of Jewish refugees
Canada’s prime minister is set to apologize for what he will call the country’s moral failure in denying asylum to Jewish refugees during World War II. In one key event in June of 1939, the government of Canada rejected a… »
International, Politics, Society
Canadians to recreate Armistice parade in Mons, Belgium, 100 years later
In November 1918 the horrific toll of the First World War was coming to an end. The Armistice to end hostilities was being negotiated. On the morning of the 11th, official word came to the Canadians to hold their place… »
A carriage horse’s death in Montreal brings sadness and anger
The collapse and death of a carriage horse Sunday afternoon in Montreal is unlikely to alter the timing of the city’s upcoming ban on the use of the carriages–known locally as calèches–at the end of next year. Speaking to reporters,… »
Alcohol killing more women in Canada
A report on the state of public health in Canada found that between 2011 and 2017 states there was a 26 per cent increase in alcohol-attributed deaths among women. At the same time there was a five per cent increase… »
Economy, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Statistics Canada seeking Canadian’s personal financial data
Privacy concerns An effort by Canada’s official statistics gathering agency to obtain personal financial information of some 500-thousand Canadians has attracted the attention of the federal privacy commissioner. The pilot project by Statistics Canada also has opposition politicians in the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Indigenous, International, Society
Canada’s National Healing Forest Project comes to Quebec
There is not shortage of forest land in Canada: 347 million hectares, nine percent of the world’s woodland. That’s nearly 10 hectares of forest land per person, more than 17 times the world average. Forty-two percent of Canada is forest. But… »
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