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Can Jasper’s new breeding centre save caribou from local extinction?
23 Dec 2025
For decades, caribou in Jasper National Park have been declining, and experts warned that without intervention, they would become locally extinct. In response, Parks Canada invested $40 million in the
Hometown hero Gavin McKenna inspiring next generation in Yukon
23 Dec 2025
Gavin McKenna of Whitehorse is a citizen of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation and a Canadian hockey phenom. A packed practice on a Saturday morning at the Art and Margaret Fry Recreation Centre arena in Dawson City is proof of his influence.
Losing ground: Northern communities seek solutions for threatened cemeteries
23 Dec 2025
More than half the cemetery in Fort McPherson, N.W.T., could be lost to erosion in 30 years. Communities in the Yukon and Nunavut share what they've learned from dealing with similar challenges.
He lives in Belgium, but wants to be Bell Island’s newest resident
23 Dec 2025
Steve Douglas has owned the British grenadier Bookshop and Salient Tours in Ypres, Belgium since 2008, but is looking to sell and move to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Why Carolina East believes in the power of positivity
23 Dec 2025
Carolann Fowler, known as Carolina East, had a pain in the back on her left leg last November. Less than a week later, she was in a coma being treated for necrotizing fasciitis. She talks about her ye
Halifax’s rental registry goes online two years after creation
23 Dec 2025
Halifax’s registry of rental properties is now available to the public online, showing what HRM staff believe are the “bulk” of rentals in the city.
This P.E.I. town is all lit up for Christmas, and a fun tour aims to show it off
23 Dec 2025
A bus tour around Cornwall gives passengers more than just an opportunity to look at the Christmas lights. It also includes singing and dancing while exploring the most festive houses around the town.
Bitter feud ensues after landlord's failed attempt to raise tenants' rent 65%
23 Dec 2025
A New Brunswick tenant and his landlord have been in a bitter year-long dispute that involves a 65 per cent rent increase, a failed eviction attempt, and claims that the rental unit, a bungalow, is needed to house the owner's aging mother-in-law.
Wildlife fencing no guarantee you won't hit moose or deer, drivers discover
23 Dec 2025
A Bathurst man is urging New Brunswickers to keep an eye out for wildlife on provincial highways, even where wildlife fencing is installed.
Snow, freezing rain expected in Toronto Tuesday morning
23 Dec 2025
Snow and freezing rain could affect morning commutes on Tuesday, according to a special weather statement issued by Environment Canada.
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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?
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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
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.
