Anthony Morgan will co-host The Nature of Things with Sarika Cullis-Suzuki Anthony Morgan is a name that will become more familiar to many Canadians. He’s one of the new co-hosts of the CBC’s The Nature of Things, and he has a close connection to northern Ontario. From 2013 to 2014, Morgan was a student in Laurentian University’s master’s of science communication program. The program is a collaboration between Laurentian, and Science North in Sudbury, which teaches students how to communicate about science to a large audience. “They teach you how to doRead more

Advocacy group says lawsuit would seek damages on behalf of all adults in British Columbia The lawyer for a group seeking to certify a class action lawsuit against B.C.’s provincial health officer for damages allegedly caused by unjustified COVID-19-related orders says the proceedings could result in as many as three million claims. Polina Furtula told B.C. Supreme Court Justice David Crerar Tuesday the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy would seek both a lump sum to punish the province for breaching charter rights and specific amounts tailored to damages allegedRead more

Pair were aboard single-engine plane when it went down A man and a woman, both from out of the country, have been seriously injured in a single-engine plane crash near the 5 Wing Goose Bay airport in central Labrador. A Joint Task Force Atlantic spokesperson says they received an emergency locator signal at 10:06 a.m. Wednesday and confirmed with the control tower there was a missing civilian aircraft. RCMP Cpl. Jolene Garland says officers are on the scene, in the woods about five kilometres from the airport in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. In a mediaRead more

Passengers, driver hunkered down in an Antigonish parking lot A fierce winter storm in northeastern Nova Scotia forced more than a dozen passengers to spend Tuesday night on a bus as they waited for the causeway to reopen to Cape Breton. The winter storm was expected to bring up to 40 centimetres of snow to Cape Breton, with wind gusts up to 100 kilometres an hour. Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers are still without power as of Wednesday night. Maritime Bus driver Pat Leaman said he hit whiteout conditions as he droveRead more

Academic integrity expert says Turpel-Lafond story is a ‘watershed moment for Canadian higher education’ Michelle Good chokes up a little when she talks about the honorary doctorate she received from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in October. The retired Cree lawyer and author of the bestselling book Five Little Indians received the honour for her advocacy on behalf of residential school survivors. But Good said that if SFU, located in Burnaby, B.C., does not revoke the honorary degree it granted Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, then Good will be forced to make a painful decision.Read more