Send in your toenails: Atlantic PATH (Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health) is trying to cure cancer. The research study is part of a huge nationwide undertaking within the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project, which hopes to track 200,000 Canadians for 30 years, in order to better understand what causes cancer. As the study’s principal investigator, Dr. Louise [...]
Action Canada, a fellowship group, will be lobbying members of parliament to bring forward an extensive report revealing the source of a weak and failing economy. Every year, this group of scholars tackles a new issue affecting Canadians. This year their target was the state of the Canadian economy. The economy’s problems are often explained [...]
Ed McIvor was at his neighbor’s around noon, getting ready to go to Sobey’s. A noise caught his attention. Looking in the direction of it, he saw flames licking the blue paint and the staircase of the apartment building he managed. Apartment number six, the one above his, was on fire and the smoke detector was [...]
When Ayat Abu Hantash moved to Canada from Jordan four years ago to study journalism at St. Thomas University, she was ecstatic at the thought of experiencing a culture where she would be considered equal to those around her. She couldn’t wait to experience all the human rights and freedoms we enjoy here. She never [...]
We’ve all seen it, and most of us have done it. We put on our Team Canada jerseys, paint our faces, wave Canadian flags and banners with beer in hand and a moose elegantly seated in our laps. A full-size live one, none of those pansy stuffed things. Hockey fever sets in at every world [...]
The media plays an essential role in the first stages of an immigrant’s adaptation into a new society. Due to language barriers, immigrants tend to reach out for ethnic newspapers, magazines, radio and TV programmes when such media resources are available in the host country. In the past, immigrants were underrepresented in the media [...]
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