Canadian Broadcasting Corp
Sask. RCMP warn of email ticket scam after reports across the province
14 Feb 2026
Saskatchewan RCMP are warning an email ticket scam is making its way around the province, after Mounties received multiple reports of people receiving an email containing a fraudulent ticket on Friday.
'It's just a good day for the North Shore': CBN parents celebrate as province plans to rebuild school
14 Feb 2026
Conception Bay North parents are celebrating the news that the province intends on rebuilding a school lost to a massive wildfire that swept through the region last summer.
A Harbour Grace murder mystery from more than a century ago is hitting a Toronto stage
14 Feb 2026
The story of a girl killed in a Newfoundland community more than a century ago is hitting a Toronto stage this spring.
Some schools on the list of possible cuts for Holt government
14 Feb 2026
Cost-cutting ideas put out by the Holt government include closing underused buildings, such as schools with fewer than 100 students. School districts say closures wouldn't save much money, but instead come with another list of problems.
N.B. Power is looking at the wrong metrics to determine its needs, expert witness says
14 Feb 2026
On the final day of a weeklong hearing into a gas plant proposal, N.B. Power lawyer John Furey questioned expert witness Jeffrey Palermo and challenged his opinion that the utility is using the wrong
Montreal DJ Kid Koala makes directorial debut with animated film
14 Feb 2026
The Montreal artist known as Kid Koala started out as a music producer and has since toured the world with interactive, multimedia shows. Now, his first-ever animated film, Space Cadet, is opening in Quebec cinemas.
Quebec's Laurent Dubreuil wins speed skating bronze for Canada
14 Feb 2026
Laurent Dubreuil has redeemed himself in speed skating's 500 metres, earning Olympic bronze after missing the medal podium by 3-100ths of a second four years ago.
Canada captain Poulin back from injury for quarterfinal against Germany
14 Feb 2026
Captain Marie-Philip Poulin is in the lineup for Canada's women's hockey quarterfinal against Germany at the Milano-Cortina Olympics.
Mississauga man, woman arrested for $250K romance scam: Toronto police
14 Feb 2026
A 36-year-old man and 42-year-old woman from Mississauga have been arrested after an investigation into a romance scam, prompting Toronto police to warn residents to be wary of online relationships and to think twice before sending money.
Toronto Zoo launches review after postmortem finds ‘unforeseen vulnerability’ led to giraffe’s death
14 Feb 2026
The Toronto Zoo says the loss of its 13-year-old Masai giraffe has forced it to “face uncomfortable facts.” Namely, that Kiko’s death as a result of being caught in an opening door in his behind-the-s
Featured
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
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
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.
