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Canada Reverses UN Stance on Palestinians in Break with U.S. over Settlements
Evan Dyer - CBC News [Canada],
25 Nov 2019
19 Nov 2019 – Canada voted for a UN resolution today in support of Palestinians’ right to self-determination. The vote marks a major departure for Canada, which has declined to support substantially the same resolution through 14 consecutive votes since 2006.
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‘Ghost Nets’: How Lost and Abandoned Fishing Gear Is Destroying Marine Wildlife
Jon Hernandez • CBC News,
15 Jul 2019
12 Jul 2019 – Up to 800,000 tonnes of ghost fishing gear gets into oceans each year. “When a net’s lost, it continually fishes — it doesn’t stop fishing, and since the animals that are caught aren’t being harvested or removed, it baits more animals into the net. The result is an ongoing death trap.”
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More Than 15,000 Scientists from 184 Countries Issue ‘Warning to Humanity’
Nicole Mortillaro - CBC News,
27 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – More than 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth. A similar warning was first issued by scientists in 1992.
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Lauren O'Neil - Radio Canada CBC News,
7 Dec 2015
‘Brandalism’ group covers Paris in satirical outdoor ads for the climate summit’s corporate sponsors.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine Crisis through the Whimsy of International Law
Neil Macdonald - Radio Canada CBC News,
10 Mar 2014
This is the commander-in-chief of a military that operates a prison camp on Cuban soil, against the explicit wishes of the Cuban government, and which regularly fires drone missiles into other countries. He is a president who ordered that CIA torturers would go unprosecuted, of a nation that has invaded other countries whenever it wished, regardless of what the rest of the world might think.
→ read full articleHIV Vaccine Trial Approved By FDA
CBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2011
Canadian-developed vaccine to start human clinical trials in January 2012.
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