An ecologist says affected land will be a ‘big dead-looking area’ after a pipeline operated by a Texas-based oil company leaked 9.5 million litres of industrial waste water. Massive Alberta waste water spill will kill plants, says ecologisthttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
Police sources have told CBC News that Pamela Mattock Porter, the wife of former McGill University Health Centre head Arthur Porter, is now at an airport in Panama City and will be returning to Canada on a flight leaving tonight. Arthur Porter's wife being extradited to Canadahttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
The Bank of Canada is warning that certain overheated segments of the housing market could put Canada’s economy at risk and has again singled out Toronto’s condominium market as an area of particular concern. Toronto condo market could destabilize economy, Bank of Canada warnshttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
An independent panel named by Ontario’s Natural Resources Ministry to investigate the province’s use of Agent Orange has concluded workers with three government agencies were exposed to unsafe levels of the herbicide. Ontario workers exposed to unsafe levels of Agent Orangehttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
Reuters The New York Times editorial board complains, “Except for a few leaders and members of the intelligence committees, most lawmakers did not know the government was collecting records on almost every phone call made in the United States or was able to collect anyone’s e-mail messages and Internet chats.” Further, it adds, “since the [...]
Reuters As critics of Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, vilify him for breaking the law and his promise to never reveal classified information, the press critic Jack Shafer adds vital and astonishingly unremarked upon context: the Obama Administration leaks highly classified information all the time. So did the Bush Administration. Does the rule of law [...]
Flickr / Derek Gavey In “The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror,” I challenged Americans to assess the actual threat that terrorism poses. Yes, it’s very scary, psychologically, and every terrorist attack is awful. But going back to 1999, an interval that happens to include the most successful terrorist attack in [...]
The association that represents Mounties says new federal legislation will give RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson the power to be “judge, jury and executioner” of officers accused of wrongdoing. Mounties group creates legal aid program for accused RCMP officershttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
The Quebec government this morning tabled its controversial bill on medically assisted death, with Social Services Minister Véronique Hivon introducing it to a standing ovation by members of the national assembly. Quebec tables bill on medically assisted deathhttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is said to be concerned that a divisive debate over party leadership rules could rear its head again at the Conservative convention later this month. Tory leadership rules up for another debate at conventionhttp://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada.xmlFOR PERSONAL USE ONLYhttp://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif11402CBC Canada News Powered by WPeMatico
GEOFFERY CANADA IS MAD… BECAUSE EDUCATION IS FAILING ITS STAKEHOLDERS I’m a little nervous, because my wife Yvonne said to me,she said, “Geoff, you watch the TED Talks.” I said, “Yes, honey, I love TED Talks.” She said, “You know, they’re like, really smart, talented — “ I said, “I know, I know.” (Laughter) She [...]
TED TALK – SECRET TO HAPPINESS? Why you should listen to him: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: “When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living [...]
From CBC.CA Website / The Mansbridge files… Meh!!! Again By Mark Bulgutch and Peter Mansbridge You don’t even have to have a particularly sharp nose to pick up the whiff of scandal these days. It’s all over the news. Every news cycle seems to bring a fresh angle to an on-going scandal, or gives birth [...]
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