The federal government says it is open to talks with territorial governments, industry, and Indigenous governments and communities on the future of offshore oil and gas development in the Canadian Arctic, raising hopes among some that Ottawa is ready to review its ban on offshore drilling. Northern Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Natural Resources…...إقرأالمزيد

Provinces in Canada have publicly-funded programs that offer mammograms to women to screen for breast cancer, but some scientists challenge the value of such programs. A former Canadian journalist has written a book describing how this screening was introduced and widely recommended as a good way to protect against breast cancer. A news release about…...إقرأالمزيد

The D-Day invasion of Europe was months past but the fighting in and over Europe was increasingly bitter and deadly. In the skies, the Germans had introduced an astounding new weapon, the jet fighter, far faster than any Allied plane, and was still highly manoeverable. The radical new plane, the Messerschmitt-262, had been introduced only that summer…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada’s economy cranked up 63,000 jobs in September, edging the unemployment rate lower to 5.9 per cent, and offsetting job losses in August, Statistics Canada reported Friday. However, almost all of the September job gains came from an increase in part-time employment and were mostly concentrated in Ontario and British Columbia with little…...إقرأالمزيد

The Canadian Space Agency will present some of its major projects in a series of live lectures in that people can see on its YouTube channel for free. A lecture on October 5, 2018 will explore theRADARSAT Constellation mission and how it enables observations of Earth from Space. A RADARSAT satellite being transferred to a special…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada is so huge, it’s difficult even for Canadians to imagine. Distances are enormous, but the Crown corporation Canada Post is mandated to deliver mail to all Canadians, many of whom of course live in rural areas. In recent years, American-based parcel delivery services such as FedEx and UPS have made big inroads in Canada especially in urban…...إقرأالمزيد

International efforts to help survivors of Indonesia’s devastating earthquake and tsunami gathered pace on Thursday as aid agencies sounded the alarm over the fate of tens of thousands of children who are in desperate need of care, food, water and shelter, six days after disaster struck. More than 46,000 children are in urgent need of humanitarian…...إقرأالمزيد

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says his government is pulling the plug on its own carbon tax plan, defying the federal government’s carbon pricing strategy and joining a growing list of provinces opposed to Ottawa’s demands. Pallister says Ottawa has not respected the province’s right to come up with its own Made-in-Manitoba…...إقرأالمزيد

A new study from the India Institute of Medical Science has found that there have been at least 259 people who have died while taking selfies from October 2011 to November 2017. The study was published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care and involved an international search of news stories using keywords like selfie death, selfie…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada, the European Union and eight other countries signed Wednesday a legally binding international accord that will protect nearly three million square kilometres of the Central Arctic Ocean from unregulated fishing. Once it enters into force, the agreement, which was signed in Ilulissat, Greenland will prevent commercial fishing in the high…...إقرأالمزيد