Category: Canada

Generation Why: this week's must-reads from a youth perspective

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, community

si-220-gen-why-march-1.jpgWelcome to the inaugural issue of Generation Why, a weekly interactive magazine curated by young Canadians for young Canadians.

Each week, CBC readers under the age of 30 and young staffers will collaborate to build a digital digest of the best content that CBC news and current affairs programming has to offer.

CPC, Wildrose, CBC line up to cut ties to Flanagan

Categories: Canada, Community, Politics

Tags: Canada, Community, Politics, Storify, Twitter

flanagan-youtube-220.jpgOrganizations with ties to former Harper senior adviser Tom Flanagan, including Alberta's Wildrose Alliance Party and the CBC, are distancing themselves from the politics professor after his comments on child pornography last night.

Boeing's bid to replace CF-18s gets CBCNews.ca readers talking

Categories: Canada, Community, Politics

Tags: CBC, Community, Community Reaction

Super HornetTerry Milewski's look at the Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet, now emerging as a rival to the Lockheed Martin F-35 as the Canadian Forces' replacement for its aging CF-18s, really got the CBC Community talking.

'Warm and fuzzy' February photo contest

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, Community

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"Our pug adopted all of the stray kittens around as if they were his own," writes CBC Community member Kelly Penner. "The kittens loved him so much they would not leave his side for one second."

Introducing 'Generation Why,' must-reads for Canadian youth

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, Community

si-220-generation-why.jpgYoung people today have an unprecedented amount of access to global information, but in this increasingly fast-paced, ever-changing digital landscape it can be easy to miss stories that are interesting, informative or useful.

That's why we're launching Generation Why, a weekly interactive magazine curated by young Canadians for young Canadians.

Should Canada's drug laws crack down on synthetic pot?

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, law, POV, Storify

Synthetic potHerbal incense containing synthetic cannibinoids can be purchased at head shops across Canada thanks to a legal grey area over which chemicals have been declared illegal and which have not.

Should Canada's laws be changed to crack down on synthetic pot?

Have you been tempted to try horsemeat since European meat scandal broke?

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, Community, Community Reaction, food, POV

HorsemeatButchers and restaurateurs are reporting the interest in eating horsemeat is climbing amid growing media coverage of the scandal of products in Europe labelled as beef containing horse. 

Have you been tempted to try it? 

Oscar night beams with Canadian content

Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Canada, Community

Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Canada, Storify, Twitter

DannaFrom skits involving Canadian actors to Life of Pi's many Oscar wins to Ben Affleck's acceptance speech for Argo, Canada was a big player at last night's Academy Awards.

Black History Month: Looking back, pressing forward

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada

si-220-asha-combo.jpgCBC reporter Asha Tomlinson took a break from the breaking news desk to produce a series of stories on what it means to be black in contemporary Canada.

"I've come to realize that it means celebrating our diverse cultures as well as recognizing that we're all Canadian," she said. 

Was teachers' fake Disney World student trip prank funny or cruel?

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, Education, POV

Disney WorldA prank that started with a misleading Disney World brochure in a teacher's desk and ended with a slide presentation to the whole graduating class at an Ontario public school is being called "bullying" and a breach of trust. 

What do you think?