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Boy, 6, dies after being found in Rideau River
31 May 2026
Ottawa police say a six-year-old is deed after being found in the Rideau River late Thursday afternoon near Hog's Back Falls.
Why the future of Woodbine Centre is in question
31 May 2026
If you’re a millennial who grew up in Rexdale, chances are you have a soft spot for Woodbine Centre and its fantasy fair. But after decades of financial trouble, its future is in jeopardy. CBC’s Nav N
Roughriders fans react to CFL’s new broadcast deal
31 May 2026
Stephen Safinuk and Greg McCulloch, co-host of the Piffles Podcast, join The 306 to talk about the CFL’s recent broadcasting deal with DAZN and how it affects fans.
Some Sask. communities ready to evacuate as wildfires inch closer
31 May 2026
Becca Katz joins The 306 to talk about being under an evacuation alert and closely monitoring the wildfires from her home in Lily Plain, 20 km west of Prince Albert.
Worldwide debut of Natural Sympathies song "Beloved"
31 May 2026
Regina band Natural Sympathies has been thinking a lot about love. The 306 finds out what inspired their new album and how they did some serious research on love.
Rural Sask. pottery store using honour system a huge success
31 May 2026
Marea Olafson, owner of Freba Pottery on Highway 16, between Dafoe and Kandahar, joins The 306 to talk about her pottery shop and what rural Saskatchewan has to offer.
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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.
