Eikhard won 2 Junos in her own career and penned Something To Talk About — a major hit for Bonnie Raitt Singer-songwriter Shirley Eikhard, who won two Juno Awards and helped Bonnie Raitt to comeback success by penning one of her biggest hits, has died of cancer. She was 67. Longtime friend Deborah Duggan says the musician died early Thursday at a hospital in Orangeville, Ont., surrounded by those closest to her. In addition to Raitt, Eikhard’s songs were covered by, or written for, the likes of Cher, Amy Grant,Read more

Report finds sensitive details on personal matters like mental health, pregnancies, STDs vulnerable to misuse Millions of highly sensitive personal health records about people accessing health care in British Columbia have been left “disturbingly” vulnerable to leaks after the provincewide health authority failed to address security concerns in recent years, a new report has found. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. published a report Thursday saying the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) has known about the “troubling” level of exposure since it audited its own system in 2019, butRead more

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

Move to replace fossil fuel fleet with EVs is essential, but there are things to do first With their futuristic designs and new technology, electric vehicles are the seductive consumer-friendly face of the energy transition. As first incarnated by Tesla, the EV is increasingly seen as sleeker, slicker, faster and more stylish than traditional internal combustion engine cars and trucks that burn those dirty fossil fuels blamed for disrupting weather patterns and killing off species. For people with money and a conscience, EVs are doubly satisfying. They allow the affluentRead more

If the skies co-operate, get to a dark-sky location for the best viewing The nights are longer as the cold weather settles in, but that’s a good thing if you love to stargaze. And this week is a perfect time to turn your eyes to the skies. On Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, the most active meteor shower of the year peaks. The Geminid meteor shower is an annual shower that the American Meteor Society has deemed to be the “most dependable” shower of the year. And that’s withRead more

Higher numbers could be due to climate change and habitat loss There’s an “eruption” of cardinals in parts of northeastern Ontario, according to the Sudbury Ornithological Society. An eruption occurs when a particular bird species expands to a new area because of more available food or a dense population spreads out. Nearly half of the world’s birds are on the decline, which experts say is a serious threat to ecosystems “This year there seems to be a lot of sightings in very strange locations like northern communities where they’re not usuallyRead more