Current Issue: January 27, 2012 Next Issue: February 10, 2012
Unlike other western countries, Canada lacks cohesive national legislation on accessibility for people with disabilities. Ontario has new legislation and other provinces are joining in – with or without Ottawa.
The number of security cameras are on the rise in Canada and around the world. With technology improving and surveillance intensifying, people are caught on camera more and more. Capital News Online examines this trend and what it all means.
With increasing population and declining crops, experts are concerned there won’t be enough food to feed the world. Capital News explores the problem of food scarcity and finds, with a closer look, there's plenty of food to go around.
Words in all their varieties — slang, vernacular, jargon — are essential to how we communicate. But what happens when vocabularies shrink, or an entire language falls out of use? Capital News Online gets the word on the street.
For thousands of people in Canada and millions worldwide, human immunodeficiency virus creates a new daily routine – one that revolves around taking medication. But new methods to prevent spread of the virus are in late-stage trials, promising increased safety between the sheets.
As we ditch the tie and switch on the smartphone, Capital News Online explores the changing culture of Canada's modern workforce.
Public institutions are jumping on the “open data” bandwagon by providing free databases online – everything from bus schedules to voting results. And tech-savvy developers are taking this information to create websites and smartphone applications, which make the data even more accessible to the public. Capital News Online explores how open data is shaping our society now and into the future.
In an industry where food is more manufactured, do we really know what it’s made of? Capital News takes the idea of “you are what you eat” one step further by asking: What are the fish we’re eating being fed? The answer can be found in the links that make up our new food chain.