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Dalhousie faculty association members reject contract offer, begin strike today
22 Aug 2025
Members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) have voted strongly to reject a contract offer from the university’s board of governors.
Judge approves process to sell off Northern Pulp assets
22 Aug 2025
Ontario-based Macer Forest Holdings made a $104-million baseline bid for Northern Pulp's timberlands and other assets.
Changes to Glace Bay street will create more downtown parking, says councillor
22 Aug 2025
Coun. Dave MacKeigan said curb extensions, also known as bump-outs, on Commercial Street are set to be removed.
Some N.L. artists pull music from Spotify after CEO's weapons investment
22 Aug 2025
If you want to listen to Colleen Power’s hit debut album, Lucky You Are, you won’t find it on Spotify. She's one of many artists leaving the platform after its CEO invested millions into a company developing AI-powered defence weapons.
2 N.S. softball team members fought for their lives, and they made it to the Canada Games
22 Aug 2025
The journey to the Canada Games involves hard work, talent and skill. But for Nova Scotia’s softball team, they’ve been overcoming adversity after adversity on the road to St. John’s.
Broken AC units led Halifax bus drivers to refuse work during heat wave, says union
22 Aug 2025
The local transit union says the lack of AC has become a health and safety issue for drivers, and some have refused work.
How long will it take to control the N.S. wildfire? Hurricane Erin makes it hard to predict
22 Aug 2025
For the third straight day, the wildfire is estimated to be 3,210 hectares or roughly 32 square kilometres.
Halifax homeless encampment on Windsor Street ordered to close
22 Aug 2025
The municipality says the Cogswell Park site must be cleared out because it's too close to a new seniors' facility.
Hot, dry summer great for local wine, says N.S. vineyard owner
22 Aug 2025
Steven Ells owns Ellslea Vineyard and says the berries are smaller this year because of the heat, but it's a good thing for wine. Watch his interview with Amy Smith.
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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
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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.
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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.
