Chloé LaDuchesse’s 'L'incendiaire de Sudbury' is one of the entries in Radio-Canada’s Combat National des LivresSudbury author Chloé LaDuchesse’s 2022 novel “L'incendiaire de Sudbury” is one of five books to have been chosen for Radio-Canada’s Combat National des Livres. Airing May 15-18, Combat National des Livres is Radio-Canada’s answer to CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. “L'incendiaire de Sudbury,” a French-language contemporary noir crime novel set in Sudbury’s Donovan area, is LaDuchesse’s third book. She explains that Combat National des Livres participants are required to choose books originating from specific areas of the country, as well as an Indigenous entry. Radio-Canada journalist Brigitte Noël, who is originally from Sturgeon Falls, chose LaDuchesse’s book as the Ontario entry.

It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index.

For some, the trouble with Twitter is just the latest flashpoint in a fight CBC has been having since its inception. While it might seem innocuous to some, the Twitter label couldn’t simply be ignored, said CBC News editor-in-chief Brodie Fenlon. CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait, on the other hand, has previously publicly butted heads with Poilievre, accusing the Opposition leader in a February interview of “CBC bashing,” and calling his campaign to defund the CBC fundraising-motivated. Another CBC reporter said criticism of CBC reflected prejudice among some Canadians, who appear to think that the fact that CBC covers diverse communities is indicative of liberal bias. It’s a very tough time to be in management in any media organization.”One of the ideas CBC might examine is the more decentralized National Public Radio model, Dvorkin suggested.

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They are much further along the path of providing attractive working environments for nurses, both new and mid-career, than others. That said, from a CFNU perspective, the goal is not to have provinces competing with each other for nurses, she says. nurse-to-patient ratio did not occur in isolation. That, says Hazelton, means better working situations and better wages for nurses in B.C., and an attractive destination for nurses outside of it. “And the staffing ratio … to me, that just really feels like they’re listening to our needs.

This 1841 drawing shows the closeness of cows to Kingston's urban centre, but Queen's PhD candidate and urban geographer Claudia Hirtenfelder says many also lived in pastures within town limits. "We tend to think of human histories, but we don't think of animal histories," she told CBC Radio's Fresh Air. Queens University ArchivesWhy cows were told to move onPigs were originally seen as the scourge of the fledgling town, according to Hirtenfelder. Hirtenfelder said cows were only discussed as property, but she tries to imagine them as living beings. Queen's University ArchivesShe encourages other urban dwellers to think of their own bovine connections.

CBC News published this video item, entitled “Civilians trapped in Sudan, world marks Earth Day | The World This Weekend” – below is their description. Many countries are scrambling to get their citizens out of Sudan as fighting intensifies. And, as the world marks Earth Day, and countries fail to meet their climate targets, some leaders say they’re doing their part to protect the environment. These are just some of the top stories on the April 22, 2023 edition of The World This Weekend. #Sudan #Canada #EarthDayThe World This Weekend is a dynamic half-hour program on CBC Radio that showcases first-rate journalism on the news of the day from Canada and around the world.

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Canada's Kelsey Mitchell, centre, poses for a picture alongside Colombia's Martha Bayona, left, and Mexico's Daniela Gaxiola after winning gold in the women's sprint event at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Milton, Ont., on Saturday (Ivan Rupes/Cycling Canada - image credit)Canada's Kelsey Mitchell won gold in the women's sprint finals on the second day of competition at the UCI Track Nations Cup on Saturday in Milton, Ont., collecting her second medal in as many days. The final race began with Mitchell carefully leading the way after the first lap, only for Bayona to surprise the reigning Olympic sprint champion by overtaking her on the second lap. WATCH | Mitchell claims gold in women's sprint:"I am so happy with my result, said Mitchell to Cycling Canada. The UCI Track Nations Cup action wraps up with the third and final day of competition on Sunday. WATCH | Canada finishes with silver in women's team sprint:

The most recent example is an outbreak of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in Alberta, which was declared in January and continues to grow. “We shouldn’t be having whooping cough outbreaks,” said Dr. Lynora Saxinger, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Alberta. The majority of confirmed cases in Alberta are in children under 18, with those aged one to nine most affected. Pertussis, once called the 100-day cough, poses the greatest threat to infants because of their immature airways. “Some of these places are the same places that we’ve seen outbreaks,” of mumps in the central zone and measles in the south zone, Saxinger said.

Blame the psychology of playoff hockey, where everything from scoring streaks to momentum swings take on lives of their own. DeBoer has seen enough playoff hockey to understand when bad things happen to good hockey teams. And for the moment, plenty of bad things are happening to his Stars, as evidenced by their 5-1 loss to the Minnesota Wild in Game 3 Friday. We respond in Game 2, they respond in Game 3. Teams up 2-1 in playoff series go on to win the series 69.4% of the time.

The Science Centre building was first opened in 1969 and is in need of repairs, according to John Carmichael, chair of the centre's board of trustees. WATCH | Ford says current Science Centre site 'doesn't cut it':Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma says a business case that showed it would be more cost-effective to build a new Science Centre at Ontario Place, rather than invest in improvements at its current location. The city says the terms of the lease only permit the Science Centre to demolish and build new structures for the purpose of operating as a science centre. Construction on the new centre will begin in 2025 with its opening expected for 2028, the Science Centre said in a statement this week. (Ontario Place is one of the terminal stations of the Ontario Line, a 15.6-kilometre subway line that would run from Ontario Place in the west to the current Science Centre in the east).

CBC News published this video item, entitled “Chevalier is a vibrant, but busy, untold story of Black violinist Joseph Bologne” – below is their description. CBC’s Eli Glasner breaks down Chevalier starring Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Joseph Bologne, an 18th-century French Caribbean musician. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news CBC News YouTube ChannelGot a comment? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, below. Please note comments are moderated before publication.

Eglinton LRT delays a mysteryVery little has been said publicly about what’s behind the current delays. On Friday, the TTC announced there would be no subway service this weekend between York Mills and St. Clair stations (including Eglinton) due to Metrolinx construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. On Sept. 22, Colwill wrote to Steven Hobbs, Metrolinx’s chief of staff: “I understand you spoke with Mike Beaton (Mulroney’s chief of staff) about a potential new approach for Metrolinx (Eglinton Crosstown LRT) comms. The 124-word statement that was posted on Metrolinx’s blog on Sept. 23 is the last the public has heard from the agency about the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. At Metrolinx’s board meeting that month, one board member asked the perennial question: When will the Eglinton Crosstown LRT open?

(AP) — The NAACP warns that “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black capital under a state-run police department, and the civil rights organization is suing the governor and other officials over it. Derrick Johnson, the national president of the NAACP, is himself a resident of Jackson. The governor said this week that the Jackson Police Department is severely understaffed and he believes the state-run Capitol Police can provide stability. Another law will create a temporary court within a Capitol Complex Improvement District covering a portion of Jackson. The judge of the new court is not required to live in Jackson and will be appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice.