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Kwanlin Dün First Nation receives over $29M to retrofit 100 homes
08 Aug 2026
Federal and territorial funding will support home upgrades in the McIntyre subdivision in Whitehorse, including improved insulation, air sealing, windows, heat pumps and electrical systems.
This all-girls construction camp on P.E.I. is fostering growth in trades
08 Aug 2026
The fourth annual Girls Exploring Trades and Technology camp wrapped this week in Summerside. It’s designed to empower more young women to get into the trades. CBC’s Camryn Farquharson stopped by to check it out.
Cricket players hope to boost the sport in P.E.I. through tournament showcase
08 Aug 2026
It’s a big weekend for the sport of cricket on P.E.I. The game is growing here, and some of the best players in Eastern Canada are in the province to compete. CBC’s Connor Lamont took in a couple of the matches.
Police in Cowansville, Que., search for missing 80-year-old woman
08 Aug 2026
The Sûreté du Québec is asking for the public's help to find an 80-year-old woman who was last seen at her residence on Principale Street in Cowansville, Que.
Leylah Fernandez posts upset win over Russia's Mirra Andreeva in National Bank Open 3rd round
08 Aug 2026
A down season is showing signs of life for Canada's Leylah Fernandez, and the timing could not be better for National Bank Open organizers nearly left without a domestic storyline at the tournament's midway point.
Windsor's unemployment rate fell again in July — and the data behind it is even better, expert says
08 Aug 2026
Windsor’s unemployment rate fell below eight per cent in July for the first time since December, according to new data from Statistics Canada.
Province commits $500M to final phase of North End sewage plant upgrade
08 Aug 2026
The City of Winnipeg has secured a key piece of funding for the North End sewage treatment plant upgrade, bringing the most expensive project in the city's history one step closer to completion.
Brad Gross the 11th candidate to join Winnipeg mayoral race
08 Aug 2026
A Winnipeg realtor is making another bid to become the city's mayor.
Wildfire numbers way down this year in Sask.
08 Aug 2026
Wildfires have burned nearly nine times less area in Saskatchewan this summer compared to last year. The 306 talks to an SPSA representative and a University of Saskatchewan professor about what made it so much better, and what may happen next year.
Moosomin incentives for homebuyers bringing success
08 Aug 2026
Moosomin has 46 new homes since it began offering $30,000 incentives for people looking to settle there. Jeff Cole, the town's economic development officer, tells The 306 all about the community's construction growth.
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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
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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.
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.
