Category Archives: Canada
Researchers develop guide to help doctors inform new parents about brain injury
When Lisa Pasquariello took her son to the doctor with concerns he was behind on reaching important developmental milestones like talking and walking, she was told he was “definitely FLK” ...
Dec 04, 2016
Complaint alleges animal cruelty at Marineland; park denies all accusations
A complaint that led Ontario’s animal welfare agency to investigate Marineland accuses the tourist attraction of cruelty against several species, alleging there was a “highly unusual”...
Dec 04, 2016
Solving the legacy of indigenous sexual abuse: think globally, act nationally
Fred Kejick Thomas remembers the exact day - April 14, 2005 - when he confronted the uncle who had sexually molested him out on a trap line when he was four years old. After years of being haunted by ...
Dec 04, 2016
Quebec police seek 22-year-old Hull inmate who fled from Gatineau hospital
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are asking the public to be on the lookout for an inmate who fled from a Gatineau hospital on Saturday. They say 22-year-old David Harvey injured a hospital worker ...
Dec 04, 2016
Quebec and N.L.: Why peace won't come quickly between Canada's uneasy neighbours
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - They are arguably the least friendly neighbours in Confederation. Newfoundland and Labrador has been feuding with Quebec since before the Atlantic province joined Canada, with...
Dec 04, 2016
Federal subsidy failing to keep northern food healthy, affordable: study
A researcher has found that a federal subsidy intended to reduce astronomical food prices for northern families has resulted in stale-dated, unreliable food on store shelves without making grocery bil...
Dec 04, 2016
Six things to know about the bovine TB outbreak: CFIA's chief veterinary officer
OTTAWA - More than 22,000 cattle at farms in Alberta and Saskatchewan are quarantined due to bovine tuberculosis, causing hardship for ranchers and millions in compensation payments and other costs. T...
Dec 04, 2016
Office design, economic setbacks spur jump in corporate art collection auctions
CALGARY - When Xerox Canada moved its Toronto headquarters into a 33,500-square-foot building in North York in August, it just couldn’t find a place for Dance of the Owl. The square stonecut-and...
Dec 04, 2016
Montreal's social-media-savvy religious sisters embrace modern devotion
MONTREAL - Sheila Sullivan was one of 58 prospective religious sisters to join Montreal’s Congregation de Notre-Dame in 1964. In 2016, only one woman in Canada has applied to join the country...
Dec 04, 2016
Vancouver mayor's national profile on the rise in pipeline debate
VANCOUVER - The ever-simmering world of pipeline politics is once again threatening to boil over after the federal government approved the Trans Mountain project, as both backers and critics of the po...
Dec 04, 2016