Polar deserts in Canada’s High Arctic are undergoing rapid changes as increases in summer air temperatures lead to permafrost thaw, leaving giant horseshoe-shaped pockmarks on the barren terrain, according to a new study. The study by McGill University researchers, published recently in Environmental Research Letters, presents close…...إقرأالمزيد

An international team, including Canadian researchers, has been trying out the use of drones to help test for tuberculosis and treat it in Madagascar, a country in the Indian Ocean. Madagascar has difficult terrain making it hard to take test samples from people to labs for analysis. It is also difficult to deliver medication to those who test positive…...إقرأالمزيد

Vancouver-born Steven Tanaka trained for years for a complex medical career to become an anesthesiologist. He practices at St Joseph Hospital in Toronto.  But one suspects that he secretly wanted to be a rock star. In some ways he now is. Dr. Tanaka spends much of his spare time as a promoter of Japanese indie bands in Canada. For several years…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada is deeply concerned by the continuing violence in northwestern Syria, officials with Global Affairs Canada said in a statement Friday following reports that bombings by Syrian government forces damaged two schools and a health facility in the rebels’ last stronghold. Over the last weeks, more than 220 civilians have been killed and 300,000…...إقرأالمزيد

Philippines-Canada dispute adds another chapter For years Canada’s Liberal government has promised to deal with dozens of shipping containers filled with garbage that were shipped to the Philippines. Originally labelled as recyclable plastics, some 103 containers were sent to the Philippines, officials became alarmed at the size of the shipment-which…...إقرأالمزيد

A once-in-a-lifetime photo of a bald eagle swooping down over a pond with its wings forming a perfect arch and their tips skipping over the mirror-still water is getting a Canadian photographer a lot of attention online. The photo taken by Steve Biro at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Vittoria, Ontario,about 150 kilometres southwest of Toronto,…...إقرأالمزيد

It took the federal government 134 years but on Thursday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally exonerated a Saskatchewan chief of treason and apologized for the conviction of the Indigenous leader who “made his indelible mark” on Canada’s history. The exoneration of Chief Poundmaker, also known under his Cree name as Pihtokahanapiwiyin…...إقرأالمزيد

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Paris to join other world leaders and tech executives at a meeting aimed at finding a way to eliminate acts of violent extremism from being shown online. The meeting is being led by French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose behaviour following the terrorist attack in her…...إقرأالمزيد

The number of people who requested refugee status in Canada more than tripled from 2015 to 2017, according to figures analysed by the government. The number rose from 16,058 to 50,389. But the pace of growth slowed with 55,023 asylum claimants arriving in 2018. This compares with previous peaks of about 37,000 in 2008, and about 44,000 in 2001. The…...إقرأالمزيد

Despite cooler-than-average temperatures in much of Canada and the north-central United States this winter and spring, April 2019 was the second-hottest April since meteorologists began keeping reliable records in 1880, according to the latest data released by NASA. The average global temperature in April was 0.9 C above the 20th-century average of…...إقرأالمزيد