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Curling legend Brad Gushue knows he's going to miss playing but is excited to join broadcast team
18 Oct 2026
After Brad Gushue retired from competitive curling at the end of last season, his long-time teammate Mark Nichols decided to continue his career, after being asked to join the reigning Brier champions
Stratford seeks provincial funds to revive popular sump pump rebate
18 Oct 2026
Stratford wants to reinstate a $2,000 rebate program that keeps home groundwater out of municipal sewer pipes.
City crews repairing water main break in North York, roads closed
18 Oct 2026
North York residents are being warned of road closures as city crews repair a water main break that burst Sunday morning.
Anishinabek Police Service seeking 2 suspects in Nipissing First Nation assault
18 Oct 2026
The Anishinabek Police Service is asking for the public’s help to identify two suspects and a victim in a violent assault that happened in Nipissing First Nation overnight Thursday.
Longtime Winnipeg councillor John Angus remembered as a 'titan' of municipal politics
18 Oct 2026
John Angus, who spent decades serving as a city councillor in south Winnipeg's former St. Norbert ward, is being remembered as a municipal "legend" and "political titan" after he died earlier this week.
Jets' coach Arniel stickhandles around Hellebuyck's status as suspension end looms
18 Oct 2026
Scott Arniel took the podium Saturday afternoon to break down a hockey match, only to provide his two cents on a growing and unpredictable game of chicken involving his NHL club.
Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame member says City of Winnipeg offside to lock him out of office, arena
18 Oct 2026
A member of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame says he's been locked out of his office at the Terry Sawchuk arena after speaking out about the City of Winnipeg "dragging their feet" over arena upgrades,
Riders clinch playoff spot in comeback thriller against Alouettes
18 Oct 2026
The defending Grey Cup champions downed the visiting Montreal Alouettes 16-12 on Saturday at Mosaic Stadium after QB Trevor Harris threw a 17-yard TD in the dying seconds of the fourth quarter.
Voters signal need for change in Victoria, Saanich
18 Oct 2026
A strong showing of candidates running on a platform to bolster public safety, strengthen fiscal responsibility and ease up on development have been elected in Victoria and Saanich on Vancouver Island.
B.C. ultramarathoner’s dream washed out by severe storm and flooding in Utah
18 Oct 2026
A B.C. ultramarathoner was rescued from 386-kilometre race in Moab, Utah, after severe storm and flooding ended the event mid-race
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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
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.
