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Sudbury 'bat walks' helping conservationists learn more about local populations
28 Jul 2026
Many people avoid bats, but a Sudbury environmental group hopes to replace that fear with curiosity while studying the city's local bat population.
Here's the latest on northwestern Ontario's forest fires: Tuesday, July 28
28 Jul 2026
There are 117 active wildfires across northwestern Ontario, according to the latest update from Ontario's Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES) issued Monday evening. Here's what we kno
B.C. SPCA voices concerns over animal welfare as Dawson Creek ends animal control services
28 Jul 2026
The South Peace SPCA will no longer respond to aggressive dogs, address animal noise complaints, or remove dead animals, among other services, once the B.C. SPCA's contract with the city ends in December.
New evacuations ordered in southwestern France wildfires as heat wave conditions return
28 Jul 2026
French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.
Travel funding cut to residential school counselling program leaves clients without closure in N.W.T., Nunavut
28 Jul 2026
Mental health counsellors who provide therapy to residential school survivors and their families in the N.W.T. and Nunavut are decrying Indigenous Services Canada's (ISC) decision to stop reimbursing
New Łutselk'e homes, locally managed, cut local housing waitlist down
28 Jul 2026
The Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation in N.W.T. has unveiled a 10-unit modular housing project owned and managed through a local maintenance pool. According to LKDFN, it marks a key step toward establishin
Fogo Island’s booming tourism sector is having a far-reaching impact
28 Jul 2026
People from all over the world are drawn to Fogo Island for its dramatic vistas and the province's reputation for hospitality. A growing tourism industry, supported by the Shorefast Foundation, is als
Town of Stephenville reaches tax deal with new airport owner
28 Jul 2026
Stephenville council and the new owner of the airport in the town have reached a deal on past unpaid taxes, with the first installment already landing on the municipal ledger.
Tourists are still coming to P.E.I. So why are some businesses earning less?
28 Jul 2026
It’s been a bit of a down season at Cavendish Country Inn and Cottages. Business has been slower than last year, leaving more openings and less profit.
PC leadership race in New Brunswick turns testy as party divisions re-emerge
28 Jul 2026
Progressive Conservatives in New Brunswick are facing an increasingly fractious leadership race this summer that threatens their ability to unite in time for the next provincial election.
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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
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.
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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
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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.
