Tag: Canada

  • Five Things You Should Know About Food Insecurity In Canada

    Five Things You Should Know About Food Insecurity In Canada

    Over four million Canadians, including 1.15 million children, will experience some level of food insecurity this year By Carolyn Shimmin Expert Advisor EvidenceNetwork.ca and Valerie Tarasuk Professor University of Toronto WINNIPEG, Man. and TORONTO, Ont./ Troy Media/ – This year, over four million Canadians, including 1.15 million children, will experience some level of food insecurity.…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Stress-Busting Tips

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Stress-Busting Tips

    Take control of stress with the following tips: Simplify Set priorities for yourself. Organize your time so that you do the things that are most important to you first. Let less important things go. Make decisions right away instead of putting them off. Worrying about what decision you have to make can cause unnecessary stress.…

  • Amazon.ca Celebrates Busiest Holiday Ever

    Amazon.ca Celebrates Busiest Holiday Ever

    Amazon.ca shipped a record number of packages this holiday Prime experiences record-breaking holiday season – more than three million new members worldwide joined Prime during the third week of December alone SEATTLE, Dec. 28, 2015 /CNW/ – This was the busiest holiday ever for Amazon.ca, with a record number of packages shipped during the season.…

  • RCMP Issue Canada-Wide Warrant

    RCMP Issue Canada-Wide Warrant

    Canada-wide warrant for suspects charged in December 17th New Brunswick murder Edmonton, AB -The RCMP in New Brunswick is seeking the public’s help in locating two suspects charged with first-degree murder in the death of 18-year old Baylee Wylie of Moncton on December 17, 2015. Police have no information to suggest that the suspects have links…

  • Air Canada Provides Statement on Flight AC088

    Air Canada Provides Statement on Flight AC088

    MONTREAL, Dec. 30, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada provides the following statement regarding flight AC088: “Our focus today has been on those passengers who have been injured in this incident and those other passengers on the aircraft for whom this has been a very unsettling experience,” said Klaus Goersch, Executive Vice President and Chief…

  • Earthquake Shakes Vancouver and the Island

    Earthquake Shakes Vancouver and the Island

    Residents of British Columbia’s South Coast were jolted awake shortly before midnight by a moderately strong earthquake centered near the provincial capital of Victoria, last night. The event is being reported as the largest felt in this area in several years, and had locals talking about the next ‘Big One’. The Magnitude 4.8 tremor struck…

  • Why Canadians need to be have end of life conversations

      People who have end of life conversations with their doctors and family members are much more likely to be satisfied with their care By Michelle Howard Expert Advisor EvidenceNetwork.ca HAMILTON, Ont./ Troy Media/ – Canadians are likely to have many important conversations with their loved ones over the holidays, but probably most won’t talk…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Helping your Body Beat Stress

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Helping your Body Beat Stress

      Stress can result from major events, both negative and positive: marriage, divorce, the birth of a child, a death in the family, or job changes or pressures. Your body is naturally equipped to deal with a certain amount of stress. But if stress increases and your reserves are low, stress can have a bigger…

  • Canada Takes Aim at an Asteroid

    Canada Takes Aim at an Asteroid

    The Canadian Space Agency delivers its contribution to the first U.S. mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth Longueuil, Quebec – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has delivered a sophisticated laser-based mapping system, its contribution to a NASA mission that will be Canada’s first international attempt to bring a sample of an asteroid…

  • What is digital literacy and why is it important for Canadian youth?

    What is digital literacy and why is it important for Canadian youth?

      Canadian Science Policy Centre By Jennifer Flanagan, CEO of Actua Youth in Canada are incredibly enthusiastic when it comes to using new technology. Their day-to-day engagement seems natural and effortless, leading many to believe that youth are experts in all things digital; that they embody the term “digital literacy.” I want to take a step back…

  • Government of Canada Honours Nelson Mandela with 20 Inaugural Scholarships

    Government of Canada Honours Nelson Mandela with 20 Inaugural Scholarships

      OTTAWA, ONTARIO (Marketwired) – The Government of Canada has awarded 20 inaugural scholarships to graduate students at the masters and doctoral level, in honour of the late Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid leader. The Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) to Honour Nelson Mandela were announced following the death of the South African…

  • Fair Vote Rejigs Executive to Press for New National Voting System

    Fair Vote Canada’s multi-partisan Board welcomes a new president and vice-president to help spearhead its push for equal effective votes and proportional representation in the House of Commons. Gary Shaul, a retired Ontario civil servant and long time, non-partisan campaigner for electoral reform in Ontario, has been acclaimed as president by the FVC national council.…

  • Changes to Canada’s Mortgage Market

    Changes to Canada’s Mortgage Market

    Canadian Bankers Association Fast facts Since 2008, the federal government has made several changes to the rules for government-backed insured mortgages that have included reducing amortization periods and increasing the minimum down payment required for home buyers. In 2012, the banks’ regulator also introduced a new guideline that sets out requirements for prudent mortgage lending…

  • Health care should be modernized, not privatized

    Health care should be modernized, not privatized

    Two-tier care and extra-billing being sold to the public as strategies for saving health care By Bryan Thomas Research Associate Centre for Health Law University of Ottawa and Colleen Flood Expert Advisor EvidenceNetwork.ca OTTAWA, Ont./ Troy Media/ – National Medicare Week has just passed, buoyed with optimism as a fresh-faced government takes the reins in…

  • Finance ministers urged to take CPP/QPP hike off the table given state of economy

    Finance ministers urged to take CPP/QPP hike off the table given state of economy

      Hike would initially cost economy 110,000 jobs; AB economy would suffer another major hit  Toronto/Calgary – As federal, provincial and territorial finance ministers prepare to meet, Canada’s top job creators are sending them a clear message: Say no to a mandatory Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) hike that would act as…