As officials scramble to explain why Canadian Aboriginal people are especially vulnerable to pandemic (H1N1) 2009, health scientists in Manitoba and British Columbia have compiled striking evidence that First Nations …
New research reveals that a widely used class of agricultural pesticides is the likely culprit behind the deaths of hundreds of millions of birds. Worse still: Canada continues to market …
Pointing to the global dissemination of a category of bacterial plasmids that are impervious to cephalosporins along with several other antibiotics,David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference …
The FDA bans injecting chicken eggs with antibiotics as a human health threat but backs down when industry groups — known collectively as ‘Big Chicken’ — squawk.
How the Government of Canada pitted scientists from Simon Fraser University against colleagues at the University of British Columbia in its campaign to shut INSITE, Vancouver’s safe injection site.
Meet seven Davids who aim to tackle the ultimate Goliaths. Can scientific ingenuity overcome nature’s worst menace? These theories are as wild as they are plausible. Using both 3D near-photorealistic …
To validate satellite data for carbon-emissions modeling, researchers this summer torched a jack-pine forest in Canada and tried to ignite a stand of larch in Siberia.
As climate change sweeps through the vast northern forests of Canada and Russia, researchers from around the world are undertaking experiments binding high adventure and high science. Directed by Juergen Hansen and Paul Webster. …
As visitors to Expo 67 pulled into the parking lot, they might have been startled to hear that the gateway to the biggest party in Canadian history was situated on …
In the mid-1990s, Canadian troops stationed in Somalia were found guilty of torturing and murdering detainees. Now Canadian soldiers and doctors are under investigation again, this time for human rights …