Pre-school children are prone to concussions and a new study suggests that mild brain injuries can adversely affect their relationships with their parents. Good relationships with parents in the early years translate into better social skills later on, say psychologists.… »
Highlights / Environment and Health
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Scientists question Swedish ban on lobster imports
Sweden is concerned that North American lobsters may be invading European waters and it wants the European Union to stop the import of live lobsters. Canada exported millions of dollars of the live crustaceans to Europe in 2015. The European market… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Clean energy investment up except in Canada
With the price of oil down it was expected that investment in clean energy projects would decline, but instead it soared around the world except in Canada, according to a new report. The climate and energy think tank called Clean… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Historic sand hills area conserved
A leading conservation organization has acquired a 127-hectare property in the province of Manitoba that includes a habitat for many rare and some at-risk species. The Ethier Sandhills property includes sand dunes left over from Glacial Lake Agassiz. That lake… »
Attitudes towards dementia need change: group
There are many misconceptions and outdated attitudes towards dementia, says Mary Schulz, education director at the Alzheimer Society of Canada. The society has just kicked off a social-media campaign to reduce the stigma around the disease. Stigma can be worse… »
Some medical wait times ‘egregiously bad’: doctor
Canadians have the benefit of free medical care but sometimes they have to wait a long time to get it. “If you have an emergency problem, there’s probably no better place in the world to be than Canada,” says Dr.… »
Greenhouse gas: corporate reporting sketchy, difficult to compare
World leaders have gathered in Paris to discuss the interconnected issues of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, and climate change and to seek ways to reduce those emissions. An often discussed solution involes carbon taxes, and carbon trading but to… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Global warming, mining, and toxic threats
Even as climate talks take place in Paris, global warming has an effect on a particular situation that could involve toxic poisoning of the drinking water of a good part of an entire nation. At a high altitude in the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Society
Water problems need local solutions: new book
Rather than seeing the world’s water problem as one global crisis, author and journalist Marq de Villiers prefers to break it down and suggests there are solutions best taken up locally. His view is outlined in a new book called… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Heart, stroke: family history is important for you
One-third of Canadians have close relatives who have had heart attacks or strokes, but many have not talked to their doctors about their own increased risk. The Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation is on a campaign to get them to… »
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