Canadian Broadcasting Corp
Some 2-car trains return to Ottawa's Line 1
14 May 2026
OC Transpo is again running some two-car Line 1 trains, nearly four months after its latest wheel problem led it to cut service and work on solutions.
Ottawa Rapid beat Halifax Tides for 3rd straight victory
14 May 2026
Ottawa Rapid FC remains perfect at home after a 2-0 win over Halifax Tides FC.
PWHL expands into Hamilton
14 May 2026
Representatives from the PWHL, Oak View Group, the City of Hamilton and more discuss the PWHL’S expansion to Hamilton. The league now has 11 teams with Hamilton joining Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver as the newest Canadian entry.
Yukon First Nation says it can pump out 250 houses per year — if it gets the timber
14 May 2026
Liard First Nation’s Heartland Timber Homes received a major equipment upgrade thanks to federal investment — and now, the company in hopes to expand beyond building houses for the local area.
Deer Lake bracing for flooding, as mayor says water levels highest in 20 years
14 May 2026
“We are not in a good position,” said Mayor Dean Ball, about the situation that will see Deer Lake Power open its spill gates over the upcoming long weekend into the Grand Lake Reservoir, which is alr
Hop on a tour of the REM's new West Island branch
14 May 2026
The West Island branch of Montreal’s light-rail network is finally opening, featuring four new stations. Here’s everything you need to know about how to navigate the system’s new branch.
Nunavik’s only veterinary clinic is looking for a new funder, or risk closure
14 May 2026
The Northern Village of Kuujjuaq is looking for someone else to oversee the project, after it discovered the council was running a $50,000 deficit each year from the clinic. The deputy mayor says vete
What's on our radar for May 14
14 May 2026
Film festival shadowing, business support announcement and hospital deficit fallout.
North Bay residents could be waking up to a flock of surprise flamingos for a good cause
14 May 2026
Residents waking up to surprise flamingo flocks on their lawns are helping raise money for service dogs in North Bay.
'Everybody remembers where they were on that tragic day': Lac du Bonnet marks 1 year since wildfire
14 May 2026
Lac du Bonnet is marking the first anniversary of a devastating wildfire that claimed the lives of two residents trapped as the blaze ravaged at least 40 square kilometres, including a swath of homes, in Manitoba's cottage country last year.
Featured
Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
