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New Kuujjuaq residence helps build up Nunavik’s student population
07 Mar 2026
While many Inuit need to go south to pursue their education, the new Kajusivik residence focuses on families and culture to keep Nunavik students in the region.
Meet the expert who has spent 34 years getting curling ice competition ready
07 Mar 2026
Greg Ewasko became fascinated with ice surfaces at a young age. He's the head ice technician with Curling Canada, and fresh off the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics, he's leading the charge to get the ice
Land & Sea: The Little Morrissey Returns
07 Mar 2026
It was a special treat for our Land & Sea crew this past September to reacquaint ourselves with the amazing life of Capt. Bob Bartlett. We got to hear about the lives he influenced when he was alive a
N.L. cheerleaders ready to defend world title at Florida competition
07 Mar 2026
A Newfoundland and Labrador cheerleading team is getting ready to defend their world championship title.
50 years since Comăneci’s perfect 10 at the Montreal Olympics, gymnastics is still evolving
07 Mar 2026
The 32nd annual Gymnix competition is underway in Montreal. This year, folks are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Olympics and an iconic performance by gymnast Nadia Comăneci that took place during those Summer Games.
Pickleball club opens in Almonte
07 Mar 2026
Owner Sara West of Westgate Pickleball Club says this will be the first pickleball club serving the area, along with Kanata and Stittsville. The CBC's Safiyah Marhnouj stopped in to check out the new four-court space.
Meet the young creatives behind Ottawa’s newest bilingual hip-hop festival
07 Mar 2026
A new hip-hop festival will bring bilingual beats from across the National Capital Region to downtown Ottawa in September.
Toronto traffic could get even worse during the FIFA World Cup. Here's what to expect
07 Mar 2026
The City of Toronto has released the first details of its plans to deal with traffic during the FIFA World Cup, which it predicts could add 10 to 15 per cent more vehicles to major downtown roads.
Northwestern Ontario town loses plea to keep only Scotiabank branch open
07 Mar 2026
As the population of Red Lake, Ont., is expected to grow by more than 34 per cent over the next decade, the town’s mayor says there needs to be more services in the community, not less. That’s why the
The 'prison' of toxic masculinity can keep men from seeking medical care. Canada wants to fix that
07 Mar 2026
Researchers and health advocates say many men delay seeking care, even when symptoms appear — a trend the federal government says it hopes to reverse by developing a strategy focused on improving men’s and boys’ health.
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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.
