More than half of family doctors in Canada use outdated methods to measure blood pressure and it’s leading to a misdiagnoses in a number of patients, a Canadian study found. According to researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre , about 20 per cent of people getting treatment for hypertension don’t actually have it, and it’s mainly due to improperly measured blood pressure with older instruments.
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Canada sends Buy American letter to U.S. lawmakers, as potential battle looms
The Canadian government has fired off a letter to a group of U.S. lawmakers who support tougher Buy American rules, foreshadowing a possible tussle ahead as American procurement policies get debated this year. David MacNaughton, Canada’s ambassador to Washington, sent a letter last week to four Democratic lawmakers who have urged President Donald Trump to restrict foreign suppliers, including on the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
CSIS director Michel Coulombe to step down at end of May after three decades
CSIS director Michel Coulombe waits to appear at a Senate national security committee, in Ottawa in a March 9, 2015, file photo. The head of Canada’s spy agency says he is retiring.
Former Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank lands diplomatic post in Chicago
Former Star publisher John Cruickshank has been appointed Consul General of Canada in Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper executive for several years. In a statement Monday, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Cruickshank’s appointment will strengthen Canada’s presence in the U.S. Midwest.
Canada is it left-wing, right-wing or centralist country
Now I was wondering on another issue what Canada is. For most of its history it has had left-wing parties running it federally and provincially in most provinces.
Mexico OKs Trump trademarks for hotels and tourism industry
On Feb. 19, 2016, at a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, then-candidate Donald Trump gave a stump speech in which he railed against American jobs moving to Mexico: “We lose our jobs, we close our factories, Mexico gets all of the work,” he said. “We get nothing.”
Veteran Canadian warship decommissioned in Halifax
HMCS Athabaskan sailed around Halifax harbour for the last time as part of a ceremony marking its final retirement from service. The destroyer was the last serving member of a class of four destroyers that have served the Canadian navy since the early 1970s.
Advocates doubt Trump administration will act to stem flow of migrants across Canada-U.S. border
The crossing of migrants into Canada that has now become a thorny issue on the U.S.’s northern frontier was certainly not on horizon until recently. As the new administration trumpeted its new ironfisted approach toward immigrants and refugees, the public and media attention focused on the wall to be built between the United States and Mexico, as well as the executive orders to keep Muslims out.
Celebrate Canada funding
Beginning with National Aboriginal Day, and ending with Canada day, Celebrate Canada is a yearly eleven-day celebration that this year will take place from June 21 to July 1. Each year many different organizations plan events to celebrate specific days during Celebrate Canada. Those events assist those who attend to discover and appreciate the wealth and diversity of Canadian society.
Five stories in the news today, March 10
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues his visit to Texas today to promote Canada’s energy industry. He will meet with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and take part in a roundtable discussion with business leaders.
PM Trudeau tells Houston energy conference border tax would hurt both economies
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made it clear he is flatly against a proposed U.S. border adjustment tax, telling a global gathering of politicians and energy sector executives it would hurt the economy in both countries. “Recognizing, of course, how much the Canadian economy depends on close collaboration and integration with the American economy, anything that creates impediments at the border – extra tariffs or new taxes – is something we’re concerned with,” Trudeau said Thursday night in Houston, Texas.
Lumber battle brewing with U.S., Emerson says
Some tactics have changed, and the opponents have upped their armament and rewritten some rules to their liking, but the war is the same. That was the assessment Wednesday from David Emerson, B.C.’s trade envoy to the U.S. on softwood lumber, after an initial tour of the battlefield.
Mexican Border Town Launches Tourism Campaign to Combat Violence Reputation
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico is launching a tourism campaign to help overcome its reputation for drugs and violence. Pictured is a protestor in Ciudad Juarez with a sign asking the government for peace.
Google.org has announced the 10 finalists for its first-ever Impact Challenge.
Google is asking for Canadians’ help to choose the best homegrown technology for solving problems around the world, as part of its $5-million Impact Challenge contest in Canada. Canadians are encouraged to vote on the project most likely to affect major change at home and abroad, with 10 options on the table.
Military SAR technician killed in training accident in Saskatchewan
A search and rescue technician with the Royal Canadian Air Force has died in a training accident near Yorkton, Sask. Master-Corporal Alfred Barr was a member of 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron at 17 Winnipeg based at CFB Winnipeg.
Military SAR technician killed in training accident in Saskatchewan
A search and rescue technician with the Royal Canadian Air Force has died in a training accident near Yorkton, Sask. Master-Corporal Alfred Barr was a member of 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron at 17 Winnipeg based at CFB Winnipeg.
Canada near the front of the queue for UK trade talks in a post-Brexit world
As the United Kingdom prepares to begin its formal negotiations to leave the European Union , the British government is looking to the Commonwealth for new business opportunities. And Canada could find itself at the front of the queue.
Canada has adequate resources to deal with asylum-seekers: Goodale
Several federal agencies are planning for the possibility that warmer weather will bring even more people trying to cross the border A woman walks towards the border to cross at the U.S.-Canada border after arriving in a taxi with a group that claimed to be from Syria into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada March 2, 2017. OTTAWA – Canada’s national police force and border watchdog say they have the resources they need – for now – to deal with the influx of people entering the country illegally in search of asylum, the federal minister in charge said Tuesday.
Canada’s last Tribal class destroyer taking final tour around Halifax harbour
Ottawa announced over two years ago that HMCS Athabaskan would be retired along with three other Royal Canadian Navy ships. Veterans who served aboard Athabaskan will be aboard the vessel as it completes its last circuit of the port where it was based.
St. FX top party school; CBU comes in at No. 36
When it comes to partying, Cape Breton University has fallen behind its provincial counterparts and many others across the country, according to a McLean’s magazine survey. Late last year the national magazine asked more than 17,000 students how much time they spend partying each week.
Mexico’s criminal and political worlds are shifting, and 2017…
Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, in one form or another, ran Mexico as a de facto one-party state from the 1930s until 2000, when Vicente Fox interrupted the PRI’s hold on the presidency. But that restoration of power appears to be on shaky ground, and the political shifts that the PRI and Mexico are seeing come as the country’s criminal underworld appears to be undergoing its own upheaval.
WikiLeaks CIA data breach could expose Canada’s vulnerabilities: ex-analyst
A former national security analyst says the federal government should be concerned about the WikiLeaks publication of secret CIA files that describe its ability to break into computers, mobile phones and smart TVs. Stephanie Carvin of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University says Canadian material risks being exposed, since Canada and the U.S. are members of the “Five Eyes” international intelligence sharing group.
The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau talks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Morneau will introduce the federal government’s latest budget on March 22 a sA A his first amid the economic uncertainty of the Donald Trump era.
Man who killed couple, grandson hospitalized after attack at federal prison
Edmonton police and federal corrections officials say they are investigating an attack on an inmate who has been identified by his lawyer as convicted triple murderer Douglas Garland. Edmonton Police Service spokeswoman Cheryl Sheppard says a man was taken to hospital just after 9 p.m. on Monday after an assault at Edmonton Institution, a federal maximum security prison.
From pay equity to child care, advocates say ‘feminist’ PM has much work to do
Aygadim Majagalee, a young woman from the Nisga’a Nation in northern B.C., said she wants to look beyond past struggles and into the next century of possibility, where she imagines a revolution led by women. “I envision a Canada that is fierce in its leadership and shows just how much every person is equal,” the 22-year-old, who also goes by her English name, Teanna Ducharme, told MPs who had gathered Tuesday to hear her address the House of Commons committee on the status of women.
Alberta to end time limit on civil suits around sexual or domestic violence
Alberta is changing the rules to give victims of sexual and domestic violence more time to sue their abusers in civil court. Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley introduced legislation Tuesday that will end the current two-year time limitation on filing lawsuits to recover lost wages and other expenses or for pain and suffering.
Christopher Plummer reflects on roots ahead of Canadian Screen Awards
Of all the revered roles Christopher Plummer has portrayed over the years – Capt. Georg von Trapp, King Lear, Macbeth, to name but a few – the most exciting one for him was that of Henry V. He played the part during his 1956 debut at Ontario’s Stratford Festival – in a tent, no less – alongside a group of “superb” French-Canadian actors he still misses “dreadfully,” he says.
Six stories in the news today, March 7
A report from the Mental Health Commission says more money for child and youth services would boost Canada’s economy and patient health. The commission, which bills its findings as a tool to help provincial and territorial decision-makers, says more than 7.5 million Canadians face mental health issues, with a price tag of $50 billion a year – or nearly 14 hundred dollars a person.
Chinese buyers want Canadian real estate for educational reasons: study
The top reason why foreign buyers from China want to get into the Canadian housing market is education, not investment, according to data from a popular global real estate listings website. Figures released Tuesday by the Chinese website Juwai.com in partnership with Sotheby’s International Realty Canada found that schooling was the primary motivation for potential Chinese homebuyers who viewed property listings in major Canadian cities in 2016.
Human rights, cyber security to be part of Canada-China free trade consultations
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, introduces Chinese Premier Li Keqiang after speaking to a business luncheon Friday, September 23, 2016 in Montreal. The federal government wants Canadians to air their concerns about China’s human rights record as part of broad consultations on a possible free trade deal.
The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
NEW TRUMP TRAVEL BAN PROMPTS NEW QUESTIONS: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is skirting demands to speak out against the U.S. government’s newly revised ban on immigration from specific countries. U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a new iteration of the controversial ban Monday, prompting renewed calls for Trudeau to denounce it and suspend the Canada-U.S. agreement on asylum claims.
The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
NEW TRUMP TRAVEL BAN PROMPTS NEW QUESTIONS: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is skirting demands to speak out against the U.S. government’s newly revised ban on immigration from specific countries. U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a new iteration of the controversial ban Monday, prompting renewed calls for Trudeau to denounce it and suspend the Canada-U.S. agreement on asylum claims.
Proposed class action against B.C. argues foreign-buyers’ tax unconstitutional
A 15-per-cent tax on foreign homebuyers in Metro Vancouver is unconstitutional and unfairly discriminates against people from Asia, a proposed class-action lawsuit against the British Columbia government argues. An amended document filed in B.C. Supreme Court last week argues the so-called foreign-buyers’ tax is unconstitutional because it violates equality rights by making an “arbitrary” distinction between those who are citizens and permanent residents of Canada and those who are not.
Under pressure, Cabinet braces for discussion on border-jumpers that…
Federal cabinet ministers are set for an in-depth discussion this week of the practical and political pressures being placed on the Liberal government by a rising number of asylum seekers in Canada. Border security, RCMP and immigration officials have been running scenarios to prepare for the possibility that a relative winter trickle of illegal immigration into Canada could turn into a spring flood.
Donald Trump endorses book on Green Card pursuit via merit
In the meantime, President Trump has been lauding the merit-based immigration systems of countries like Canada and Australia, both tweeting about it and mentioning it during his address to Congress. The merit-based system is the way to go.
1984 newspaper clip leads police to missing sisters
Two sisters who “walked away” from their lives in Canada three decades ago have turned up in the US. Anna and Kym Hakze were last seen in the mid-1980s and eventually reported missing by their mother in 2003, the Calgary Sun reports.
Feds settle case of ‘grossly unfair’ leak about Montreal man, RCMP probe ongoing
The federal government has quietly settled the lawsuit of a Montreal man who complained he was smeared by inflammatory and false accusations about extremist activities. Abdelrazik, 55, reached a “satisfactory settlement” with the government over a 2011 disclosure intended to discredit him, said Paul Champ, his lawyer.
Company that pays for blood donations eyes Kelowna for clinic
Canadian Plasma Resources, a for-profit, Ontario-based company, pays donors between $25 and $100 per donation in the form of Visa gift cards. “We have plans to come to B.C., but we don’t have a timeline yet for this,” said Barzin Bahardoust, CEO of Canadian Plasma Resources.
Aurvista Gold Corporation Announces Grant of Incentive Options
Aurvista Gold Corporation announces that the Board of Directors has approved the issuance of 475,000 incentive stock options to certain employees and consultants of the Company. The Options are exercisable at $0.40 per share for a period of five years from the date of grant.
Canada Jetlines has been planning to launch for several years | Canada Jetlines
Vancouver-based upstart airline Canada Jetlines has closed a transaction to be taken over by Jet Metal Corp. and to trade on the TSX-Venture Exchange starting March 7. It remains unclear, however, when the ultra-low-cost carrier, which plans to charge fares that are an average of 40 per cent to 50 per cent less than Air Canada and WestJet, will get off the ground. “We’re not going to promise we’ll be flying by ‘X’ date.