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Coffee with your car parts? Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons merge loyalty programs
17 Sep 2025
Canadian Tire announced Monday that it's partnering with coffee giant Tim Hortons to dish out perks to customers of both brands.
Carney and Poilievre exchange pleasantries, then resume an epic debate
17 Sep 2025
Pierre Poilievre was back in his happy place. Mark Carney was back in the prime minister's seat. Between them lay 396 centimetres of green carpet and the future of the country.
Authorities feared man arrested in smuggling scheme that led to deaths at border would flee: court documents
17 Sep 2025
Air Canada flight attendants' union asks to cancel mediation process, sending wage issue to arbitration
17 Sep 2025
Halifax police release photo of suspect in antisemitic vandalism incidents
16 Sep 2025
Halifax police are asking for the public's help to identify a suspect they believe is connected to antisemitic graffiti that was written on synagogues over the weekend.
N.S. teachers looking to places other than the U.S. for professional development
16 Sep 2025
Nova Scotia teachers interested in attending conferences for professional development will have to look at travel options other than the United States for the foreseeable future.
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From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
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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.
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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.
