By Paul Shindman
I never thought of Canada and Israel as two sleeping trade giants who are more or less unaware of each other. Sure, Israelis know that Canada is that place where hockey comes from, it’s cold there, and Israeli supermarkets sell maple syrup with a little red maple leaf on it, Strubb’s pickles and [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Smart Hand, a pan-European program to develop a life-like artificial hand, has just released its prototype now functioning on a man in Sweden. Interfacing nerve endings with the mechanical device is Prof. Yosi Shacham from Tel Aviv University.
It is one of the world’s first thought-controlled prosthetic devices –– an artificial life-like hand, and it [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
A lot of Canadians I know like to talk about peace building. And Canadians in many ways are good at it. I grew up in Newmarket, Ontario and in my class had students who were first generation – or new immigrants to Canada – from all over the world. There was H. Khan, [...]

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