“For Canada to a significant degree it’s a good story,” said Woods, the lead author of the report entitled Limited Accountability: a transparency audit of the Coalition air war against so-called Islamic State. “Of 13 partner nations we assessed, Canada is the most transparent and publicly accountable for its actions.”

Geoff Fernie explains how and why the Toronto Rehabilitation tests boots in its special box with an ice floor that can be tilted.

Crystal Serenity’s 32-day voyage across the forbidding Canadian Arctic was the most significant single event in the Arctic in 2016, while Donald Trump’s election could take the U.S. Arctic policy into uncharted waters in 2017, says Heather Exner-Pirot.

Colette Rivest, of the Cannabis Canada Association, tells Carmel Kilkenny what the group is pleased with in the report, and what it would like to see changed, such as the ability to advertise.

Prof. Wesley Wark says Russia’s systematic cyberattacks breach the international understanding that countries should not interfere in each other’s domestic affairs.

Ana Duggan describes finding the smallpox DNA and its significance.

“For WWF it was a win-win-win situation,” said Elizabeth Hendricks, WWF – Canada vice president freshwater. “It was good for the economy, for hydro, it was good for the communities and it’s good for the ecosystems.”

The LINK Online, with Lynn Desjardins, Levon Sevunts and Marc Montgomery this week.

The Senate Committee on National Security and Defence looked into the governments plans to dramatically increase Canadas participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations at the request of Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, said committee chair Senator Daniel Lang.

Eric Hebert-Daly hopes public consultations will result in more emphasis on protecting national parks and limiting development.