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Hair may signal pending heart attack

Globe and Mail, Sun September 05, 2010, comments (0)
In the not too distant future, your family doctor may pluck a hair from your head to see if you’re in imminent danger of a heart attack.



Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada

CBC, Sun August 29, 2010, comments (2)
An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation.



Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands

Climate Crossroads, Fri August 27, 2010, comments (1)
Major US corporations are adding market pressure to the growing wave of opposition against tar sands expansion, giving tar sands producers a fresh reason to consider the consequences of their poor environmental street cred.



Fair trade goes mainstream

Vancouver Sun, Fri August 13, 2010, comments (0)
Cadbury brings fair-trade Dairy Milk chocolate bar to Canada -- without charging a premium price.



Crime rate fell 17% in past decade: Stats Can report

National Post, Wed July 21, 2010, comments (0)
In what has turned into a rite of summer in recent years, Statistics Canada has released data that again suggests the crime rate in the country continues to fall.



Canada’s boreal forest primed to be world’s best-protected ecosystem

Vancouver Sun, Sun July 04, 2010, comments (0)
Canada’s boreal forest is on track to become the world’s best-protected ecosystem, says paper slated to be presented this week at an international conference on conversation issues.



Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants

Reuters, Mon June 28, 2010, comments (0)
Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard.



Fruits and veggies becoming bigger part of Canadian diet

Toronto Sun, Sun May 30, 2010, comments (0)
Canadians are eating more fruits and vegetables and decreasing their daily caloric intake, according to new Statistics Canada data.



Canada, U.S. to regulate emissions of heavy vehicles

National Post, Fri May 21, 2010, comments (2)
Canada and the United States will work together to slash greenhouse gas emissions by regulating emissions from heavy-duty vehicles, Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced Friday.



Greenpeace lauds historic new pact to save Canada’s Boreal Forest

Story contains video Green Peace, Tue May 18, 2010, comments (2)
Greenpeace today joined eight other environmental groups and forest companies in the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) to announce the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, an historic pact that will lead to large-scale protection of wilderness areas in Canada’s Boreal Forest, protection of threatened woodland caribou and significantly higher environmental standards for forest management.

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