It is well-known that CO2 is one of the so-called “greenhouse gases” and a significant contributor to global warming and subsequent climate change. University of Alberta researchers have found that in the western Canadian Arctic more CO2 may be released… »
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Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Canada calls for closer international cooperation in combatting illegal fishing and ‘ghost gear’
Canada is leading international efforts to beef up global cooperation in combatting illegal fishing and adopt new measures to deal with the problem of lost or discarded fishing gear at a three-day G7 ministers summit that began in Halifax Wednesday.… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Lost fishing gear threatens marine life
The group, World Animal Protection Canada, is urging Canada and all nations to deal with lost and discarded fishing gear that kills and maims ocean life including whales, porpoises, turtles and seabirds. Issue raised at international meeting Its research suggests… »
Genocide expert calls on Canada to prosecute returning ISIS fighters
A leading Canadian expert on genocide and human rights is calling on the federal government to prosecute Canadian jihadist fighters returning from Iraq and Syria, arguing Ottawa has a moral and legal duty to seek justice and uphold the rights… »
Canada’s burgeoning cannabis industry and the US border
Since the announcement that recreational cannabis would be legalised in Canada, there have dozens of new cannabis industry start-ups. Management teams formed, investors investing, workers hired for greenhouses and retail outlets. But, in the U.S, federal law still lists it… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Science needed to solve world issues, say Canadians
A new survey suggests that 75 per cent of Canadians think that critical challenges facing the world will need to be solved by science and technology. But more than half also think society is turning away from science in favour… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Hurricanes, floods: ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet,’says insurance expert
Canadians need to learn from the hurricane and the floods devastating North and South Carolina, says Glenn McGillivray, managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. This is an independent body created by Canada’s insurance industry to reduce the… »
Health, Highlights, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Another step toward defeating resistant/tolerant bacteria
Researchers in Canada have found a potential weakness in one of the most common, serious, and even deadly bacteria that has been difficult to treat with antibiotics. Dr. Dao Nguyen (MD. MSc), is a scientist from the Translational Research in… »
Economy, International, Politics
NAFTA to “SHAFT ‘YA” Derek Burney suggests
NAFTA talks continue with little to show for the effort. The North American Trade Agreement, between Canada, the United States and Mexico, is twenty-four years old and is being renewed and renegotiated in Washington. But U.S. President, Donald Trump announced on… »
Health, International, Society
No one is ever too old to remember–and honour–Terry Fox
It’s been 38 years now–the spring and summer of 1980–that Terry Fox first won our attention with his unlikely and gutsy run that took him half-way across the country–a run he had to cut short because he could no longer… »
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