It all started with a few text messages in late April. Several well-known Canadian scientists — Toronto-based infectious diseases specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch, Saskatoon-based virologist Angela Rasmussen and Winnipeg-based microbiologist Jason Kindrachuk — were all chatting about the unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy cows. By then, American officials had tracked cow cases…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A professional kiteboarder from P.E.I. says he has been seriously injured in a shark attack that occurred while he was snorkelling in the Turks and Caicos Islands last week. In an Instagram post on the weekend, Lucas Arsenault shared a photo of himself in a hospital bed…
One of the core policies the Liberals introduced to protect Canada’s elections has been criticized again for failing to alert Canadians to foreign interference it observed in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. In a recent report, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), one of Canada’s intelligence watchdog bodies, criticized the Critical Election Incident…
A new report by Vibrant Communities Calgary found that social disorder is on the rise in Calgary, and they are increasingly happening in public spaces like transit. The 58-page report, titled “No Place To Go”, found that calls for police related to social disorder at LRT stations across Calgary have sharply increased in 2021 and…
Premier Doug Ford’s push to get beer and wine into convenience stores ahead of schedule will cost Ontario taxpayers at least $225 million, but there’s evidence the full price tag actually adds up to hundreds of millions more. When the Ford government announced that it will pay the multinational owners of The Beer Store to allow…
Connor McDavid didn’t have an answer. His head coach, meanwhile, took a long, deliberate pause to ponder the same question — why haven’t the Oilers been able to draw penalties against the Dallas Stars in the NHL’s Western Conference final? “I’ve heard a lot about the past, being a spectator, not a part of the NHL, not…
It may come as a scoop of white powder to add to a latte or smoothie, promising to help achy joints and sagging skin. Or, as an ingredient in face masks and moisturizers, claiming to offer a youthful glow. It’s marine collagen, a buzzword in beauty and supplement circles, often derived from fish skin, scales…
In the past few years, there have been a variety of cases of space debris falling to Earth, with one object crashing through the roof of a Florida home in March and most recently, a piece of debris from a SpaceX spacecraft landing in a Saskatchewan farmer’s field. That farmer is Barry Sawchuk and though…
Pride groups and some health-care providers are harshly criticizing the Alberta government’s latest attempt to get feedback on its proposed gender identity policies — a private invite that requires participants to sign a non-disclosure agreement. “If [Premier Danielle Smith] really wants to hear what we have to say, she can schedule a public hearing where those…
Better training and information-processing tools are needed to help the intelligence program at Canada’s border agency fight everything from firearms smuggling to human trafficking, says an internal evaluation. The recently released Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) evaluation report also found the sensitive nature of the activities and a lack of data made it difficult to…
