Expert: Federal Government Gay-Pardon
鈥淓ven more significant than Mr. Klippert鈥檚 posthumous pardon may be the government鈥檚 promise to review all the cases of men who were convicted of gross indecency (homosexual acts short of intercourse) or buggery before 1969.鈥� (The Globe and Mail)
Experts: National Climate Strategy
鈥淲ith the wind at his back from Paris and a fresh mandate from Canadians, Mr. Trudeau meets provincial and territorial leaders in Vancouver this week to pursue a national climate strategy.鈥� (The Globe and Mail)
Expert: UK European Union referendum (Brexit)
"June 23 has finally been set for the momentous 'in or out'聽British vote on whether to abandon the 28-nation European Union." (CBC)
Expert: Apple vows to resist FBI demand to crack iPhone
"Tech giant Apple and the FBI appeared headed for a deepening confrontation Wednesday after the company鈥檚 chief pledged to fight federal demands to help mine data from an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December鈥檚 terrorist attacks in San Bernardino." (The Washington Post)
Syria crisis: Air strikes on hospitals
"Rescuers wearing hard hats searched through rubble for survivors in northern Syria Monday after airstrikes hit two hospitals and a school building.聽The attacks killed at least 22 people, according to reports.
Child homelessness
鈥淥n any given night, there are about 35,000 homeless people across Canada, and the number of families and children among them is growing at an alarming rate, a new report reveals.
Taxi drivers protest against Uber
"Taxi and limousine drivers in Montreal are planning to block access to certain sites across the city Wednesday聽in protest against Uber." (Montreal Gazette)
Gravitational Waves
"The first direct detection of gravitational waves is聽now widely expected to be announced on 11 February聽by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox leader to meet
芦聽Pope Francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church will meet in Cuba next week in a historic step to heal the 1,000-year-old schism that divided Christianity between East and West, both churches announced Friday.聽The Feb.
Julian Assange (Feb. 4, 2016)
"A UN panel will conclude Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being "arbitrarily detained" in the UK, the Swedish foreign ministry has said." (BBC News)
Guaranteed minimum income
Phillipe Couillard mandated Fran莽ois Blais, the minister of Employment and聽Social Solidarity, to set up guaranteed minimum income in Quebec.聽(Source: Le Journal de Qu茅bec)
2016 US Presidential Race
"On Monday, Iowa will kick off the 2016 race for the White House, a contest in which two fiery, fringe candidates from the left and right have hijacked the national imagination and undercut the political establishment." (Source:
Japan adopts negative interest rate
"In a surprise move, the Bank of Japan has introduced a negative interest rate.聽The benchmark rate of -0.1% means that commercial banks will be charged by the central bank for some deposits." (Source: BBC)
Zika Virus
"A new virus invading parts of Central and South America and now the Caribbean is causing concern among people living in and travelling to infected countries. Transmitted by the aggressive Aedes mosquito, the Zika virus has spread to at least 23 countries and will likely infect tens of millions of people in a few short years." (CTV News)
Canada discriminates against children on reserves
"The federal government discriminates against First Nation children on reserves by failing to provide the same level of child welfare services that exist elsewhere, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled." (Source: CBC)
