Canada: Toronto city presents gender-diverse initiative for trans, non-binary youth

Oct 17, 2024, at 05:09 am

Toronto/IBNS: The City of Toronto Tuesday presented its first coordinated initiative for gender-diverse youth in Toronto Access Plan for Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Advisory Committee.

Canada: Manitoba announces funding of $13.6 million to advance ecosystem research

May 12, 2023, at 04:01 am

Winnipeg/IBNS: The Manitoba government will fund $13.6 million in 2023-24 to Research Manitoba to advance the research ecosystem and support strategic investments in research and innovation, Jeff Wharton, Economic Development, Investment and Trade Minister has said.

Canada: Hindus embrace Jewish writer's research

Mar 20, 2019, at 10:41 pm

Toronto, Mar 18 (IBNS): Toronto’s Hindu community is embracing the work of a Jewish writer whose research shows the Biblical Hebrew people came to the Middle East from Ancient India.

New effort needed to encourage society to tackle Islamophobia: Report

Nov 15, 2017, at 03:00 am

Birmingham, Nov 14 (IBNS): Twenty years on from the first major report on Islamophobia, a new report involving University of Birmingham research recommends that all parts of society call out prejudice and discrimination and prejudice experienced by and suffered by Muslims. 

Research shows link between temperature rise and human influence, says head of UN climate panel

Mar 24, 2017, at 02:37 pm

New York, Mar 24 (Just Earth News): Speaking on Thursday at a United Nations forum to invigorate political momentum on climate change, the head of a major UN panel on climate change underlined that human influence on the climate system cannot be disputed.