Sigh : The Nova Scotia government plans to pass a law requiring all skiers to wear helmets. Under legislation to be introduced Tuesday, any skier not wearing protective headgear would face a $250 fine. Since 2000, 11 people have suffered traumatic brain injuries related to skiing or snowboardi...

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Today in 1917 , over two thousand people were killed and over nine thousand injured in the largest pre-atomic manmade explosion in human history.  Steam freighters SS Imo and SS Mont-Blanc collided in the narrows of Halifax harbour; the latter carried a munitions cargo bound for Europe, which s...

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  How The 1% and the Machines May Come To Rule Us All That’s my own sensational title, but it’s very fitting. This article, from the Atlantic and part of a 3 segment excerpt from a new book, is basically the article (and book?) I’ve been waiting 4 years to read! And also very ...

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CBC News  | Performance Artist Gives Birth in NYC Gallery A performance artist who said giving birth is the “highest form of art” has delivered a baby boy �" inside a New York City art gallery. Marni Kotak gave birth at 10:17 a.m. on Tuesday, the Microscope Gallery in Brookly...

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Canada’s majority Conservative party has recently introduced a crime bill called “ The Safe Streets and Community Act ,” which they claim will improve security by locking up a broader range of offenders and keeping others incarcerated longer.  Opponents, pointing out that the bill comes at a...

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It seems that cutting 700 jobs from the payroll of Environment Canada back in August was not enough for the anti-environment ideologues of the Canada’s Conservative government. Today, the Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN), one of Canada’s oldest, largest, and most well-respec...

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49.2 percent turnout . An all-time low. Plenty of time to get into the left and right and up and down and labels later, but if this isn’t a sign that the system isn’t working, I don’t know what is. I don’t pretend to understand why we’re facing such alarmingly low...

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...’s wrong," said Hudak, referring to a long-aborted Liberal attempt to revamp sex-ed curriculum in schools across the province. via cbc.ca Some of the misrepresentations and straw persons we’ve seen make me think he’s taking his cues from Michele Bachmann. And now his security staff are shoving and elbowing reporters...

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“The road is just a piece of real estate. The least efficient way to use it is to give it over entirely to cars.” This quote really stuck with me when I was listening to CBC Vancouver’s Early Edition this morning. It was voiced by Rob Adams , the Director of City Design for Melbourne, Aus...

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For the first time in its 10-year history, CBC’s Canada Reads is turning to non-fiction. Canada Reads: True Stories is all about finding the memoir, biography or work of literary non-fiction for the entire country to read. Starting this week and wrapping at midnight ET on Friday, October 14,...

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