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Yukon premier announces first-time home buyers program offering low-interest loans
24 Apr 2025
Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai announced a new first-time home buyers program on Wednesday to help cover the cost of a down payment on a new home.
'He makes people's lives better': service dog in training brings connection to Fort Smith, N.W.T.
24 Apr 2025
A service dog in training is bringing comfort and connection to Fort Smith residents. JJ the English lab, visits care homes, classrooms and other organizations.
Foreign workers in N.W.T. say they can't wait much longer for answers, after Nominee Program cuts
24 Apr 2025
A town hall Tuesday, held by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins, was meant to give the MLAs a better understanding of what people tied to the nominee program are f
Environmental assessment ordered for Imperial's closure plan for Norman Wells
24 Apr 2025
A northern review board has ordered an environmental assessment of Imperial Oil’s plan to eventually shut down and clean up its operation at Norman Wells.
Billy Joe MacLean, long-serving mayor and former N.S. cabinet minister, dies at 88
24 Apr 2025
MacLean died in the early hours of Wednesday at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital from a group A streptococcus infection, said family members.
A look at the marine animals that will be living at Dalhousie's aquarium
24 Apr 2025
Staff at the Aquatron Laboratory have been busy gathering marine animals since last summer. The collection of sea creatures will eventually move into the Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity, a new aq
P.E.I. Opposition leery of ICU reopening plan, but minister confident of summer timeline
24 Apr 2025
Access to health care dominated Wednesday’s debate in the P.E.I. Legislature, with concerns raised over the reopening of the intensive-care unit at Summerside’s hospital and ambulance wait times in rural areas.
Capitals dominate 2nd period, beating Canadiens in Game 2
24 Apr 2025
The Washington Capitals beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 on Wednesday night in Game 2 to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven first-round series.
Why Quebec doctors say proposed colour system for patient priority is concerning
24 Apr 2025
The federation representing the province’s general practitioners is sounding the alarm again as negotiations with the Legault government over a new agreement defining their working conditions get unde
Quebec journalist delves into voter cynicism in new book
24 Apr 2025
Alexandre Duval, a National Assembly reporter with Radio-Canada on sabbatical leave, released a new book called, Obsession: élections!, in which he argues that politicians have come to prioritize winn
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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?
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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.
