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Prince Harry visits Walking With The Wounded
This week Prince Harry visited Walking With The Wounded to meet some veterans currently being supported through our Head Start and ...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 25, 2017


Canada Post hosts the Head of India Post and delegation for first-ever visit
Discussions focused on growing e-commerce and a historic stamp issue for Canada’s 150th. Representatives from India Post wrapped up a...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 20, 2017


How solar power is turning rural India bright and shining
As the Indian economy enjoys a sustained positive momentum, rural India continues to be the heart of the country, accounting for 67 per...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 17, 2017


Ebola 'super-spreaders' cause most cases
The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows nearly two thirds of cases (61%) were caused by 3% of...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 15, 2017


The famous fungus that led to the discovery of penicillin is going up for auction
Lot 92 at Bonhams auction house isn’t much to look at—just a blob of mold encased in glass and plastic. But this mold is famous. It’s...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 12, 2017


Hundreds of whales in 2nd New Zealand stranding able to swim free
New Zealand conservation authorities said 240 pilot whales that were stranded overnight at a remote bay which only days earlier had a...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 12, 2017


A pop-up hair salon from Uganda treats black hair as a science and an art
Whenever Kampire Bahana, a Ugandan writer and DJ, walks into a salon the experience is the same. “They ask me what I’ve been doing with...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 10, 2017


Will you join in the biggest national annual day of talking about mental health today?
To help kick off Time To Talk Day we have launched a film showing how simple, and important, a first conversation on mental health can...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 2, 2017


Dangerous Fruit: Mystery of Deadly Outbreaks in India Is Solved
NEW DELHI — Three years ago, Dr. Rajesh Yadav, an investigator with the India Epidemic Intelligence Service, moved to the city of...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 31, 2017


MARKING A CENTURY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN CANADA.
To inspire young women to participate in the formal political sphere in the years and decades to come - Equal Voice has invited young...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 26, 2017
Join the conversation on military health matters
PTSD, prosthetics, brain injury, robotics, medications, physical injury, mental health—the scope of research into military and veteran...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 25, 2017


This is the chemical scientists say makes burnt toast potentially cancerous
Step away from the slice of toast you just burned. The black stuff on the outside could increase your risk of getting cancer…but probably...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 25, 2017
#BellLetsTalk and #HeadsTogether work to end the stigma around mental health
It’s a fact, one in five Canadians will suffer from mental illness at some point in their lifetime. One of the biggest hurdles for anyone...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 25, 2017


The five finalists in Google’s private-sector race to the moon have 341 days to launch…and counting
Five teams now have until the end of the year to launch spacecraft to the moon in search of the $20 million first-place Google Lunar...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 24, 2017


A British nuclear test last June accidentally sent an unarmed missile hurtling towards the US
The first test of Britain’s nuclear defense system in four years, which took place in June 2016, accidentally fired an unarmed missile...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 23, 2017


At Least 39 People Killed After Train Derails In Southeast India
A passenger train leapt the tracks overnight in southeast India, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 60. The derailment,...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 23, 2017
Australians sending 'unhelpful' donations like high heels, handbags, chainsaws to disaster z
Unsolicited donations given to Australia's Pacific neighbours after disasters may be causing more harm than good, says a report...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 17, 2017


UK leader Theresa May to appear in US Vogue magazine
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May is set to appear in the American edition of Vogue magazine. May's Downing Street office...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 16, 2017


Let's Talk: Mental Health Awareness and the Invictus Games
It’s finally 2017, the year Canada will play host to the third and largest Invictus Games! Toronto will soon welcome 550 wounded, ill...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 11, 2017
Putin's Real Long Game
Politico magazine explains how the West is already at war, whether it wants to be or not. It may not be a war we recognize, but it is a...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 1, 2017
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