Wynne moves to contain fatal pig virus
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will be working today on a plan to contain a fatal pig virus that kills piglets but is rarely dangerous to humans. Wynne, who is also the province’s agricultural minister, is […]
Year: 2014
Woman strangled by scarf in escalator
A woman died Thursday morning after her scarf got caught in a Montreal Metro station escalator. The 47-year-old woman was strangled to death after her scarf became stuck in the escalator’s teeth. When she bent down […]
Prosecution seeks death penalty for Boston marathon suspect
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision was announced Jan. 30. Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, allegedly planted two pressure cooker bombs […]
Monarch migration in danger of disappearing
Millions of monarch butterflies arrive in the forests of central Mexico every year in November where they migrate to survive the winter. At least that’s what is supposed to happen. Decreasing populations Continuous loss of […]
Feds “attack” middle class on pensions
While Ontario considers a provincial pension plan and Ottawa has rejected expanding the Canada Pension Plan, a new Bank of Montreal poll shows 89 per cent of Canadians rely on CPP, and 30 per cent […]
Canadian vets now eligible for Arctic Star medal
Hundreds of Canadian World War II veterans can now apply for the British Arctic Star medal — but the catch is they won’t be able to wear it in Canada. The Canadian Honours System does […]
Winter Olympics promise great viewing
With 98 medal events taking place at the upcoming Sochi Olympics, there are plenty of events to entertain viewers. CBC released its programming schedule Jan. 30, and the Associated Press released its medal predictions earlier […]
Four-year minimum wage freeze finally thaws
Minimum wage in Ontario will be going up to $11 an hour as of June 1, 2014. At a press conference, fittingly located in a small coffee shop, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the increase. “We […]
NASA captures lunar transit
Early on Jan. 30, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of an unusually long lunar transit in which the moon appears to move across the sun. NASA’s SDO 5-year mission dedicated to observing the sun began […]
Check out 60 years of climate change in 15 seconds
NASA has released an updated report with a video that shows the globe is getting hotter over every decade. The data comes from NASA’s New York-based Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) that specializes in […]