Trade talks between Canada, the United States and Mexico to renew the twenty-five year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA) have taken on a new urgency following yesterday’s announcement by President Trump. “We’ll get rid of the name NAFTA, it has a bad connotation” “They used to call it NAFTA, we’re…...إقرأالمزيد

Saudi Arabia’s medical students, interns, residents and fellows, currently enrolled in Canadian universities and teaching hospitals have been given a much valued reprieve, and can now remain in Canada to continue their programs. Approximately 1,000 Saudi Arabian medical students were affected by an order from Riyadh to return home. “allowed…...إقرأالمزيد

(public commenting open on all RCI stories- scroll to bottom to submit: Comments will be posted after moderating) It’s called “birth tourism” or having “passport babies”. It’s when pregnant foreigners travel to Canada for the sole purpose of having the baby born in this country. Ther reason is that currently Canada…...إقرأالمزيد

Returning to school, that annual rite of passage from one grade to the next, is underway in the mainly French-speaking province of Quebec. Elementary school yards were filled with children this morning making the transition from the two-month summer break, to classes and the routines of another academic year. Next week, following the Labour Day holiday…...إقرأالمزيد

A new study suggests that there needs to be better diagnosis of those suffering from alcohol withdrawal so that only the severe cases are admitted to hospital. The study from the B.C. Centre on Substance Use suggests that other patients can be better treated on an outpatient basis. Alcohol abuse costs Canada plenty Research published last…...إقرأالمزيد

Canadians unfortunately really know very little of their own history. To help bring some of that history to young Canadians, a graphic novel was made about a major battle and victory by Canadian troops in the First World War. Matthew Barret is a PhD history student at Queen’s University in Kingston. He is also the illustrator of the graphic novel…...إقرأالمزيد

Children are now heading back to school after a couple of months of summer vacation and dietitians are reminding people how important it is for them to have a nutritious breakfast. Often both parents work and mornings are very rushed, and some families are poor and find it difficult to pay for good food for that first meal of the day. Food is important…...إقرأالمزيد

‘Alarming rates of…fraud’ flagged Oceana Canada has found 44 per cent of the seafood it tested was something other than what the label said it was. The ocean advocacy group collected 382 samples from grocery stores and restaurants in five Canadian cities and says it found “alarming rates of seafood fraud.” The study focused…...إقرأالمزيد

Near Earth Object- NEO Asteroids are given rather mundane names like 2015 FP118, or 2017 SL16. But what is exciting, or rather, extremely worrisome is when they come close to Earth. Asteroids striking the Earth in the past wiped out the dinosaurs. Another asteroid estimated at a mere 50-100 metres wide struck remote Siberia in 1908 destroying about…...إقرأالمزيد

NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Deal, may now be relegated to the pages of history. A new bilateral trade deal between the United States and Mexico, without Canada, was announced today. “We’re going to start that deal imminently” the American President, Donald Trump said today, with the new name, a more “elegant”…...إقرأالمزيد