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Cartographier les anciennes voies navigables des #Premières_Nations
▻https://ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-autochtones/a-la-une/document/nouvelles/article/1093023/cartographier-anciennes-voies-navigables-premieres-nations-autochto

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Sous une portion abandonnée de la route Transcanadienne, au Nouveau-Brunswick, se trouve une autre « autoroute », une voie de navigation vieille de plusieurs milliers d’années et utilisée autrefois par des communautés autochtones pour le commerce. Aujourd’hui, des chercheurs tentent de cartographier ces routes en utilisant une combinaison de logiciels et d’études linguistiques.
Radio-Canada avec CBC

En 2015, le gouvernement provincial a fermé le pont de Jemseg, construit dans les années 1960, laissant une grande partie de l’ancienne autoroute à l’abandon et inaccessible.

Or, juste en dessous se trouve la rivière Jemseg, qui, avec des centaines d’autres rivières et ruisseaux, constituaient jadis des routes utilisées par les communautés autochtones qui s’y déplaçaient à l’aide de canots en écorce de bouleau.

#canada #peuples_autochtones #cartographie

Oh, le beau manuel scolaire (#canada)

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#éducation

Les corbeaux sont si malins qu’ils sabotent les expériences des chercheurs - Motherboard
▻https://motherboard.vice.com/fr/article/d385zm/les-corbeaux-sont-si-malins-quils-sabotent-les-experiences-des-che

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Ce dernier m’a raconté une chose étonnante : au cours des expériences, un corbeau a compris prématurément le fonctionnement du système caillou/boite et a entrepris d’enseigner la méthode à ses congénères, avant d’inventer par lui-même une nouvelle façon d’obtenir la récompense. Au lieu de laisser tomber le caillou pour libérer la nourriture, la petite créature diabolique a déposé une couche de brindilles dans le tube et poussé un bâton à travers ladite couche afin d’enclencher le mécanisme.

L’oiseau a dû être retiré de l’expérience avant qu’il apprenne aux autres corbeaux comment pirater le système des chercheurs.

#éthologie #intelligence #animaux

Le Canada interdit les étiquettes “Produit d’Israël” pour les vins de Cisjordanie
Jacob Magid et Sue Surkes 13 juillet 2017,
▻http://fr.timesofisrael.com/le-canada-interdit-les-etiquettes-produit-disrael-pour-les-vins-de

La décision cible 2 vignobles d’implantation et place sur listes noires des millésimes du Golan et de Jérusalem Est ; une association juive juge la décision “troublante”

L’agence canadienne d’inspection des aliments a ordonné aux points de vente de boissons alcoolisées de cesser de vendre des vins fabriqués en Cisjordanie, en affirmant que les étiquettes les identifiant comme provenant d’Israël contreviennent à la politique d’Ottawa sur le territoire.

Les résidents d’implantation et au moins une association juive canadienne ont réagi avec colère à la décision, qui cible les caves de Psagot et de Shiloh, dont les vins sont fabriqués près de Ramallah.

La nouvelle de la publication de l’ordonnance a été révélée mardi lorsqu’une lettre de la Régie des alcools de l’Ontario (LCBO) adressée aux vendeurs de boissons alcoolisées, détaillant la réglementation de l’Agence canadienne d’inspection des aliments envoyé une semaine plus tôt indiquait que « l’étiquette ‘produit d’Israël’ n’est pas un pays d’origine acceptable pour les produits viticoles fabriqués à partir de raisins cultivés, fermentés, transformés, mélangés et finis dans le territoire occupé de Cisjordanie. »

#BDS

Blotter carfentanil being sold on Winnipeg streets as ’drop dead,’ police say - Manitoba - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/carfentanil-blotter-drop-dead-winnipeg-1.4153544

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Blotter carfentanil — small pieces of paper infused with a synthetic opioid about 100 times stronger than fentanyl — is being sold on the street as “drop dead,” Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth told the Winnipeg Police Board on Friday.

Smyth said Winnipeg appears to be unique among Canadian cities in that there appears to be a market for carfentanil, whose intended use involves the tranquilization of elephants or large ungulates such as moose. 

While the opioid has appeared in other cities, sometimes as a replacement for less potent substances, there is a small population of drug users that actively seeks the drug here, the chief said.

#buvards #carfentanil #drop_dead #drogues #mort #canada

The drug crisis is now pushing up death rates for almost all groups of Americans - The Washington Post
►https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-drug-crisis-is-now-pushing-up-death-rates-for-almost-all-groups-of-americans/2017/06/09/971d8424-4aa1-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html

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The opioid epidemic that has ravaged life expectancy among economically stressed white Americans is taking a rising toll among blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, driving up the overall rate of premature death among Americans in the prime of their lives.

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(à noter dans ce dernier graphique, la solution subtile au problème de la base 0 du graphique)

’It’s abominable’: Vancouver mayor reacts to overdose deaths - British Columbia - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-overdose-death-update-1.4048915

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“It’s abominable that with 100 overdose deaths already this year in Vancouver — almost half of 2016’s total — we have yet to see effective action from the provincial and federal governments on health care solutions that will stop the death toll in this #fentanyl crisis,” said Robertson [mayor of Vancouver] in a statement. (…) the B.C. government urgently needs to spend the $10 million received from the federal government before yet another hundred families are impacted by tragic preventable deaths," he said.

Robertson is calling on the B.C. Government to put $8 million into injectable therapies, like prescription heroin and hydromorphone, as well as mental health support for patients in Vancouver.

#drogues #canada

Former ambassador to U.S. warns Trudeau not to ’moralize’ with Trump, CBC, 13 feb.

Franck McKenna: I think the government of Canada has conducted themselves very well so far

▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/frank-mckenna-trump-meeting-1.3979818
C’est bien, continue ainsi petit, suis ton grand frère et il ne t’arrivera pas de mal.

Asylum-seeking Syrian family crosses into Quebec from U.S. in -15C weather

Asylum-seekers crossing through the woods to Quebec surged in recent months, Canada Border Services says

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Ports America Signed to Nova Scotia Mega-Port Project – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/ports-america-recruited-to-nova-scotia-mega-port-project

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U.S. terminal operator Ports America and #Sydney_Harbour Investment Partners have announced an agreement for the promotion, development and management of the proposed Novaporte deepwater mega-port in Sydney Harbour, #Nova_Scotia capable of accommodating the world’s largest ships.

Sydney Harbour Investment Partners, or SHIP, is a private company with exclusive development rights to the approximately 500 acres at the Port of Sydney. Now with the support of Ports America and a specially formed development group, they plan build a dedicated, semi-automated, deep-water marine container facility capable of handling 18,000+ TEU Ultra Large Container Vessels.
[…]
“Novaporte is a uniquely located deep water port able to handle the largest of the next generation of ultra-large container vessels,” said Peter Ford, Chief Strategy Officer at Ports America. “Geographically, it is the first stop for vessels on the Great Circle Route from Europe and Asia via the Suez. It has abundant land, an adjacent 1,200-acre logistics park and is located in a foreign trade zone. Add to that abundant power, road and rail, as well as a skilled work force, and you have the makings of an East Coast gateway for the next generation of super ships.”

Pills that kill: why are thousands dying from #fentanyl abuse? | Global | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/dec/11/pills-that-kill-why-are-thousands-dying-from-fentanyl-abuse-

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By the time the epidemic finally started to get public and political attention, more than two million Americans were addicted to opioid painkillers. Those who finally managed to shake off the drug often did so only at the cost of jobs, relationships and homes.

After the government finally began to curb painkiller prescriptions, making it more difficult for addicts to find the pills and forcing up black market prices, Mexican drug cartels stepped in to flood the US with the real thing – heroin – in quantities not seen since the 1970s. But, as profitable as the resurgence of heroin is to the cartels, it is labour intensive and time-consuming to grow and harvest poppies. Then there are the risks of smuggling bulky quantities of the drug into the US.

The ingredients for fentanyl, on the other hand, are openly available in China and easily imported ready for manufacture.

#pharma #antidouleurs #répression #drogue #chine #mexique #carfentanil (et aussi #Prince, une des premières victimes de ce #marché_noir)

’Weapons-grade opioid’ carfentanil detected in Waterloo region, drug taskforce warns - Kitchener-Waterloo - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/carfentanil-found-in-waterloo-region-1.3883149

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the #fentanyl wave has been coming into Ontario and this is just a part of that wave in our view," Larkin said in a phone interview during a break from a conference of Ontario police leaders in Barrie.

Often when people use drugs, “they do not know what they’re ingesting. This is a prime example,” he said.

“We look at the magnitude of the potential for serious injury and likely death when somebody uses #carfentanil unknowingly. That’s the challenge, is that people do not that they are ingesting this,”

#drogues #canada #santé_publique

’I’m smarter than they are’: Underground chemist says police losing fentanyl battle - British Columbia - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fentanyl-beeker-underground-producer-1.3868579

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[the underground chemist Beeker] says police are far behind when it comes to tracking drugs throughout the province, and he says many local chemists are synthesizing drugs with materials ordered from China.

“I’m smarter than they are ... all of us chemists are smarter than the police, and we’re gonna stay ahead of them,” he coldly tells filmmaker Robert Osborne. "And if they find out one of the ones we are making, we’ll make a different one — and this will go on forever."

Recent news does seem to prove him right: even deadlier opioids have already hit the streets in Vancouver. #Carfentanil has turned up in several instances, according to Vancouver police — and it’s 100 times more potent than #fentanyl.

Deadly carfentanil worries health officials

“Fentanyl is soon to be obsolete. It’s just not going to be out there because there’s much more profitable drugs — it doesn’t matter about better or safer — much more profitable drugs and molecules are on the way,” Beeker says in the film.

“They’re in the mail right now.”

#drogue #chimie #canada #film #documentaire (sort le 1er décembre)
▻http://www.cbc.ca/firsthand/episodes/unstoppable-the-fentanyl-epidemic

911 overdose calls break B.C. records, users ’going down everywhere’ - British Columbia - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-overdose-drugs-fentanyl-emergency-1.3869423

Lubbers, who’s been using drugs for 12 years, says it “blew her mind” when half her usual dose of what she thought was heroin almost killed her.

“It’s crazy. It’s ridiculous. Everybody is dropping like flies,” said the 38-year-old regular on the Downtown Eastside.

Lubbers wants the government to do more to stem the crisis, saying she fears for her life, but can’t stop taking drugs. 

“I don’t want to die. Not all of us junkies are out here to end our lives. Some of us are just sitting in purgatory waiting,” she said, adding she is trying to put her life back together.

"In the meantime we are just stuck addicted to something.

#fentanyl #héroïne #santé_publique (et l’urgence de la #légalisation)

’No real role’: Canada’s watchdog for mining abroad struggles to sharpen its teeth

A lawsuit over alleged human rights abuses by a Canadian mining company in Eritrea highlights the challenges facing the federal government as it tries to step up its oversight of Canadian companies’ behaviour abroad.

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Fentanyl Billionaire Comes Under Fire as Death Toll Mounts From Prescription Opioids - WSJ
▻http://www.wsj.com/articles/fentanyl-billionaire-comes-under-fire-as-death-toll-mounts-from-prescription-op

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Before they were arrested last year, Alabama doctors John Couch and Xiulu Ruan were prized customers of Insys Therapeutics Inc., maker of a powerful and highly addictive type of synthetic opioid known as fentanyl.

Drs. Couch and Ruan prescribed a combined $4.9 million of the painkiller, called Subsys, to Medicare patients in 2013 and 2014, among the most of any doctors in the U.S., federal data show.

Insys, based in Chandler, Ariz., went to unusual lengths to keep these high-prescribing doctors happy. Insys Executive Chairman John N. Kapoor, the company’s billionaire co-founder, personally traveled to Mobile, Ala., to attend a business dinner with them, said people familiar with the matter. The doctors were also frequent speakers and consultants for Insys, which paid them $270,700 in combined fees over 21 months, according to government data.

@fil #cadeau

Cameras replace border guards at small #Quebec crossing

Pilot project sees travellers processed remotely by agents hundreds of kilometres away

http://i.cbc.ca/1.3828691.1477875595!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/morses-line-border.JPG

#frontières #USA #Etats-Unis #canada #vidéosurveillance #technologie #contrôles_frontaliers

via @ElisabethVallet

Regina activists place warning labels on Indigenous Halloween costumes - Saskatchewan - CBC News

▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/regina-activists-place-warning-labels-stereotypical-indigenous-halloween-costume

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Halloween costumes depicting Indigenous women and girls in costume at a Regina store had warning labels thanks to some local activists.

Spirit Halloween in Regina is selling costumes such as ’Reservation Royalty’, ’Native American Princess’ and ’Wolf Dancer’. There are similar costumes for both women and girls.

“It’s precisely these types of images that normalize the sexualization of Indigenous women and lay the foundation for a culture that accepts the violence against Indigenous women,” said Chris Kortright who helped place the labels on the costumes.

#résister #résistance #sexisme #peuples_autochtones

Mississauga teacher suspended after pro-Palestinian speech wins support of activists - Toronto - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mississauga-teacher-suspended-after-pro-palestinian-speech-wins-support-of-activ

Pour archive, ça s’est passé en août.

Nadia Shoufani, an elementary teacher at St. Catherine of Siena school in Mississauga, is suspended with pay pending further investigation by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, the board said in a statement last week.

The school board confirmed in July it had launched an investigation into Shoufani’s comments at the July 2 Al-Quds Day in Toronto. But the board did not confirm in its statement that Shoufani was suspended for what she said — comments that outraged both the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center and B’nai Brith Canada, which accused her of publicly supporting violence and terrorism in Israel.

(...) During her speech, which was captured on video, Shoufani called Ghassan Kanafani, a Palestinian writer killed in 1972, a “martyr,” and criticized the detention of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese militant imprisoned in France for killing two U.S. and Israeli officials.

#palestine #canada #répression #kanafani

Nunavut board waives environmental review for cruise ship Crystal Serenity - North - CBC News

▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/crystal-serenity-nunavut-impact-review-board-1.3734680

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The Nunavut Impact Review Board is recommending the federal government approve a plan to bring a luxury vessel through the Northwest Passage without a full environmental review, which has one Arctic researcher on edge.

Earlier this year, Crystal Cruises submitted an application to the NIRB for the Crystal Serenity voyage, which is scheduled to arrive in Cambridge Bay Aug. 29 and Pond Inlet Sept. 5, and for a similar voyage in 2017.

–—

Arctic hamlets prepare for giant cruise ship Crystal Serenity - North - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/crystal-serenity-arctic-hamlets-prepare-1.3723425

The anticipation keeps Janet Kanayok up at night.

“[I’m] a little bit overwhelmed, thinking of the magnitude of how many people are coming,” said Kanayok, the community economic development officer in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T.

The community is the first Canadian stop on the Crystal Serenity cruise ship’s inaugural voyage through the Northwest Passage. The ship will also stop in two Nunavut communities: Cambridge Bay and Pond Inlet.

#arctique #transport_maritime #passage_du_nord_ouest

Canada’s immigration detention program to get $138M makeover

Canada’s Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale made the $138-million announcement Monday morning at the Laval Immigration Holding Centre. He said the objective is to make detention a last resort.
“The government is anxious to address the weaknesses that exist and to do better.”

The government’s reform objectives include:

Increasing the availability of alternatives to detention.
Reducing the use of provincial jails for immigration detention to prevent the interaction of immigration and criminal detainees.
Avoiding the detention of minors in the facilities as much as possible.
Improving physical and mental health care offered to those detained.
Maintaining ready access to facilities for agencies such as the Red Cross, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as well as legal and spiritual advisers.
Increasing transparency.

▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/goodale-immigration-laval-1.3721125

#détention_administrative #rétention #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Canada #alternatives