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This past week, Carmel Kilkenny, Terry Haig, and Gilda Salomone all filled in at various times, but presenting the show today are Marc Montgomery and Wojtek Gwiazda. We start out with a look at the...
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There’s more to Vancouver Maritime Museum’s exhibit than ‘whale bone porn’
The Vancouver Maritime Museum’s (VMM) current exhibit, Tattoos & Scrimshaw: The Art of the Sailor, has dozens and dozens of interesting art pieces. But it is one small display, containing nine...
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Wild bird loses leg in golf accident, gets prosthetic limb
Veterinarian Ken MacQuisten said this sandhill crane is ‘unusually tame for a wild bird.’ © cbc.ca Veterinarian Ken MacQuisten said this sandhill crane is ‘unusually tame for a wild bird.’ A sandhill...
View ArticleInuit to study polar bear denning habits in Nunavut
A group of Inuit in Clyde River, Nunavut, has decided to research denning habits on the north and east side of Baffin Island in Nunavut. They want to understand how many cubs are born in the dens. The...
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Surplus of dentists brings changes to the profession in Canada
A recent report on the practice of dentistry suggests that “the average dentist may be closer to the edge of a [cliff] than the average Canadian.” According to the “doom and gloom” study done by...
View ArticleCouple finds 3 bear cubs near Fredericton, New Brunswick
A New Brunswick couple was heading home to Springfield, outside Fredericton, last Thursady, when they found three bear cubs near the highway. Zen Fedory and his girlfriend Krissy Green said they...
View ArticleScammers in B.C. try to sell gold claiming it belonged to Ossama bin Laden
Gold buyers beware! A group of scammers in Kamloops, British Columbia, is trying to sell fake gold chains, claiming they belonged to Osama bin Laden. Police in B.C.’s Interior have issued a public...
View ArticleGiant Chinese pandas touch down in Toronto
Female panda Er Shun eats bamboo at the Panda House at the Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China earlier this year. The Toronto Zoo began playing host to Er Shun and male Da Mao on Monday, just over a year...
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Sustainability at McGill University starts from the ground up
McGill University’s efforts to implement sustainability programs on campus have been decades in the making and are gaining impetus. “There have been dozens of individuals who have been taking the...
View ArticleDrug smuggling increasingly popular among truckers bound to Canada from Mexico
Border agents have been finding more and more cocaine hidden in fruits and vegetables in trucks coming from Mexico. In recent years, at least a dozen truckers from the Greater Toronto Area have been...
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Not all Canadians ‘fascinated with pandas’, CBC readers say
They were greeted with much fanfare on their arrival in Toronto on Monday, but not everybody is pleased with the two giant Chinese pandas loaned to Canada for the next ten years. CBC readers sent...
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New intermittent fasting diet not best way to achieve long-term weight loss,...
The intermittent fasting diet or 5:2 diet, which asks people to fast for two days and eat whatever they want for five, is gaining popularity in Canada, but dietitians are not as impressed as people...
View ArticleCanada withdraws quietly from UN-convention that fights droughts in Africa
As of last week, Canada is the only country not to take part of a United Nations convention that fights droughts in Africa and elsewhere. The withdrawal was made discreetly on the recommendation of...
View ArticleCanadian hospitals ‘parking fees, a penalty for having a disease’
Some ailing Canadians prefer to miss hospital appointments to paying high parking fees, Marketplace, CBC’s investigative consumer program found. “It’s bad enough that you’re having to seek treatment,...
View ArticleUN regrets Canada’s withdrawal from drought convention
The United Nations has reacted to the decision by the Harper government to pull out of the Convention to Combat Desertification by calling it “regrettable.” On Thursday, foreign Affairs Minister John...
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True fame comes and doesn’t go after fifteen minutes, study
People who achieve real celebrity don’t fade away after their “fifteen minutes of fame” are over, a new study shows. Even if they are not as famous as Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie, their...
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This week Marc Montgomery is joined in studio by Gilda Salomone and Terry Haig as we take a look at some of the interesting stories making news across Canada. We hear about a Canadian scientist whose...
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Building design influences recycling behaviour, UBC study
A recent study conducted in two very different cafeterias at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus shows that people are more likely to be environmentally responsible in a “green building”. A...
View ArticleA thing of wonder: rare blue lobster caught off Antigonish, Nova Scotia
At first, Sheldon Trenholm of South River, Nova Scotia didn’t know what it was. Then he realized the bright blue thing thrashing in his trap with seven or eight lobsters, was indeed another lobster....
View ArticleCanadian talk-show host George Stroumboulopoulos debuts on CNN
George Stroumboulopoulos, a long-time TV personality in Canada, is CNN’s newest talk-show host. “Stroumboulopoulos”, his hour-long interview show premiered on Sunday evening on the U.S. cable news...
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