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Russia jets overfly Canadian frigate
Three Russian military planes have conducted low-level flyovers buzzing a Canadian navy frigate taking part in a NATO exercise in the Black Sea off the southern coast of Ukraine.
A Canadian military source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said three Russian aircraft flew low over HMCS Toronto on Sunday.
The source added that two of the Russian planes were SU-24 fighter jets and the third was...
Russian bombers practice nuclear missile strike against US
A pair of Russian bomber jets reportedly practiced cruise missile attacks against targets in the United States last week, according to a report published on Monday in the Washington Free Beacon.
Bill Gertz, a writer for the Beacon, reported that two Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying over the Labrador Sea last week in the northern Atlantic Ocean near Iceland, Greenland and Canada as part...
NATO readies 10000 troops to fight against Russia
NATO is reportedly working towards the creation of an expeditionary force composed of 10,000 troops from seven different member states as a result of escalating tensions with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
According to the Financial Times, the force’s creation will be spearheaded by Britain and involve contributions from Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, and the Netherlands. Canada...
Canada will donate up to 1000 experimental Ebola vaccines to WHO
Canada has offered to donate its experimental Ebola virus vaccine to West African States after the WHO said it would be ethical to use untested vaccines to try and contain the outbreak that has already claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people.
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHA) the country sees the vaccine as a global resource and is in talks with the US and the World Health...
Ebola Apocalypse “Mysteries” Raises Biowarfare Fears
A bleak report issued today by the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) on the ever growing Ebola virus apocalypse currently devastating a number of Western African nations (and so out of control that governments there have revived a disease-fighting tactic not used in nearly a century called the “cordon sanitaire”) is warning today that the “mysterious...
Canada seeks to claim North Pole area
Canada has launched a scientific mission to map the seabed surrounding the North Pole, aimed at claiming the area.
The Canadian government said in a statement issued on Friday that two ice-breakers will be sent to the Arctic waters to gather scientific information to support a plan to extend Canadian territory up to the North Pole.
The coast guard vessel Terry Fox reportedly set sail from St. John’s,...
Canada Responds to Russian Sanctions by Sending Military Aid to Ukraine
A massive Canadian transport plane has arrived in Kharkov carrying US$4.5 million worth of non-lethal military equipment to help Ukraine “protect its eastern border against Russian aggression.”
The equipment includes “helmets, ballistic eyewear, protective vests, first aid kits, tents, and sleeping bags,” Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement on Thursday.
Canada said it...
Human-dependent android hitching across Canada
A human-dependent android has been set on a hitchhiking trip across Canada in search for an answer to an uncanny query.
Put together from household items, “hitchbot” started its journey on July 27 in Canada’s Atlantic port city of Halifax on a mission designed by McMaster University experts.
The project aims to see if robots can trust humans, “hitchbot” needing to look to humans to help...
World's largest telescope construction begins in Hawaii
The construction project of the world’s biggest telescope has officially begun at the summit of a mountain on the US island of Hawaii.
Several countries including Japan, China, Canada and India are slated to collaborate with the United Stated in the project.
The thirty Meter Telescope is going to be a reflecting one and will be built atop a 4,000 meter mountain, Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano.
A...
Canadian fertility clinic bans patient from using non-white donor
A single Canadian woman, who sought in vitro fertilization in the only local clinic in Calgary, has been prohibited from using donors of a different ethnicity to avoid “creating rainbow families.”
The 38-year old woman, who requested to use only her first name, Catherine, told the Calgary Herald that “everything went downhill” when last March she learned that she could only use sperm, eggs...
Canada lost 9400 jobs in June alone, unemployment rising
Canada’s unemployment rate has edged up to 7.1 percent as government data showed the economy unexpectedly shed thousands of jobs in June.
Canada’s jobless rate increased to 7.1 percent from 7.0 percent in May, marking the highest record in six months, Statistics Canada reported on Friday.
Economic growth also fell below expectations as the country shed some 9,400 jobs in June.
The total number...
Deforestation severely affecting fish, new UK-Canadian study
New research shows that deforestation imposes crisis in amount of available food for freshwater fish, resulting reduction in their size and consequently their population.
The team of scientists from Canada and the UK found that where there was less forest cover or even no trees, the fish were undersized as well as with health problems.
The study also indicated that the condition also influenced the...
Canada's Supreme Court rules in Favor of Internet Privacy
Internet service providers should not turn over internet users’ information to law enforcement officials without a warrant, Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled.
Internet service providers should not turn over their users’ private information to law enforcement officials without a warrant, Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled.
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that warrantless searches are “presumptively...
Obama legalizes all illegal immigrant kids
Ever wonder why our borders are left wide open and why the immigration laws are not enforced? Or why Obama has just allowed thousands of illegal immigrant children to come into our country “legally” if the parents drop them off on the other side of the border? If you haven’t now is the time to ask these questions with the possible arrival of over 150,000 Mexican immigrants pouring into our...
US State of Michigan protests Canadian nuclear waste project
Bruce Nuclear Plant on Lake Huron
A Canadian proposal that calls for a nuclear waste storage facility less than a mile away from the Great Lakes is coming under heavy fire from Michigan lawmakers and environmental groups, who are now attempting to stop the project.
Under a plan crafted by energy supplier Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the company would construct a “deep geologic repository” (DGR),...