10 November 2017
Canadian cannabis producer Tilray is investing about $29.5 million in a medical cannabis operation in Portugal. Tilray, a company certified in medical cannabis research and production, has secured all the licenses to export cannabis seeds and clones to be cultivated at the Biocant Research Park, in Cantanhede, Portugal, about 220 kilometers north of Lisbon. The […]
Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
07 November 2017
By Cristina Ogden, Contributor (*) Recent film festivals in Portugal and Canada highlight this year’s cinematic exchange between the two countries. The 2017 edition of the European Union Film Festival in Toronto includes the Canadian premiere of Saint George (São Jorge). The troika bailout measures that affected Portugal in the 2010s plays out in Saint […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Film, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
05 November 2017
The World Web Summit will be held for the second time in Lisbon, starting November 6 through November 9. The event will open with remarks by Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa. US former Vice-President Al Gore will close the event. Over 1,000 invited speakers include UN Secretary-General António Guterres, former French President François Hollande, former […]
Posted in Conferences, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
27 October 2017
Conventional history claims that nine men formed a brotherhood called the Knights Templar in Jerusalem in 1118 to provide protection for pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. Overturning this long-established historical narrative, Freddy Silva shows that the Order of the Temple existed a decade earlier on the opposite side of Europe, that the protection of […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Politics, Portugal, Religion, World
20 October 2017
UN Secretary General António Guterres met with President Donald Trump at the White House this Friday. The former Portugal’s Prime Minister, who had a brief first contact with President Trump in the White House last April, visited the White House for a more formal meeting This time the two leaders addressed “issues of common interest,” […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
17 October 2017
Portugal declared a state of emergency in areas north of Lisbon, after at least 37 people have died victims of wildfires spreading over the weekend. Seven people feared dead were still missing on Tuesday. The fires injured 56 people, 16 of them seriously. On the weekend, about 524 fast moving fires were reported in the […]
