Toronto: Scientists have discovered a striking new species of horned dinosaur in southern Alberta, Canada. Based on fossils collected from a bone bed, the team from the Royal Ontario Museum found the dinosaur named Wendiceratops pinhornensis that is approximately 20-feet long and weighs more than a ton. It lived about 79 million years ago, making it one of the oldest known members of the family of large-bodied horned dinosaurs that […]
The fire situation in B.C. remained relatively stable Monday after more than 50 new wildfires were reported over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes or be on evacuation alert. Smoke continues to blanket large portions of the south coast including Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast. Air quality advisories have been issued and residents are being advised to avoid strenuous outdoor exercise or to […]
A 10-storey war memorial proposed for Cape Breton Highlands National Park is plagued with controversy, but a star-studded list of honorary patrons continue to throw their names behind the project. The list of patrons boasts a former prime minister, celebrated artists and high-profile journalists. The Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation wants to build a $25-million memorial to Canada’s war dead on a stretch of the trail between Ingonish and […]
Canada is a beautiful tourist attraction with a lot of attractive places to visit. Top on the list of tourist attractions for visitors in Canada are the beautiful Canadian islands where you can enjoy a lot of fun activities like sun bathing, waters ports boat riding and general beach life If this sounds like something you would love, then you would hate to miss these islands in Canada: Entry Island: […]
[2015] Wondering how much money we’re making at the start of 2015? Statistics Canada has just released their latest report on how the average salaries that Canadians are earning. And it turns out that we’re taking home a little more than we were a year earlier. At the end of last year, as of December 2014, the average wage for Canadian employees was $943 a week – or just over […]
Ottawa: Canada will expand its military mission against Islamic State by launching air strikes against the militants` safe havens in Syria as well as Iraq, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday. That will make Canada the second NATO member nation after the United States to attack Islamic State positions in Syria, which have also been hit by jets from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Harper also said […]
At Planet Fitness, the first thing that hits you is the colour. It’s unlike any other gym on first impression, but that has nothing to do with the place’s ethos (we’ll get to that later). It’s sensory. You don’t get the smell of sweat, the sounds of exertion or the feeling of heat, hung in the air by a room full of fast-moving, hard working bodies. The first thing that […]
Toronto: Canada needs structural reforms in its immigration policies to attract foreign students and must consider granting them permanent residency rights, a top official of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce has said. “The existing Canadian immigration policies are not facilitating participation of foreign graduates in its labour force, discouraging meaningful immigration and denying them permanent residency status on technical grounds,” president of Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC), DP Jain, here […]
Sunil Mantri: How did your new music video Emotion happen? Asxem Dlean: I was catching up with a childhood friend, Jeremy Surin after 12 years. We spoke for a long time, talking about the paths our lives had taken us on. He was living in Canada, and spent a lot of time surfing. He would surf (http://www.surfwellness.com/) with his friends and make videos of these surf expeditions. Out of […]
Researchers led by engineering professor Animesh Dutta, director of the Bio-Renewable Innovation Lab at the University of Guelph in Canada, have found a solution: pressure cooking. Cooking farm waste — especially ‘wet’ waste such as corn husks, tomato vines and manure — can turn it into biofuels to produce energy, researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist have found. Dry farm waste, such as wood chips or sawdust, is easier to […]
