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Tuberculosis numbers in Labrador remain small, contract tracing underway, says N.L. health minister
05 Dec 2025
A tuberculosis outbreak was reported in northern Labrador in late November by N.L. Health Services and the Nunatsiavut government. While some have been alarmed by the situation, Health Minister Lela E
Why this artist started an art gallery on her front lawn
05 Dec 2025
Artist Monica Lacey came up with a unique solution after hearing about a lack of professional art spaces in Charlottetown: she started a gallery right on her front lawn. In this piece for CBC Creator
N.B. poet's latest collection is 'aggressively weird'
05 Dec 2025
The Canadian poet and author talks to CBC Books about The Reign, a poetry collection that tells a novel-in-verse tale set within a small New Brunswick community.
Crown, defence agree Montreal man not criminally responsible for killing parents, grandmother
05 Dec 2025
A man who stabbed his parents and grandmother to death inside their Montreal home in March 2023 should be found not criminally responsible, the prosecution and defence told a courtroom on Thursday. Qu
The Ottawa Miniature Gallery returns with the tiny takeover of a gift shop
05 Dec 2025
Artist Kiana Simmons is the curator of the Ottawa Miniature Gallery, a portable three-storey structure displaying tiny art. A new exhibition opens Dec. 5.
Teen dead after fatal stabbing in Brampton: police
05 Dec 2025
An 18-year-old man has died from stab wounds after an altercation at a Brampton apartment building Thursday night, said Peel police.
Windsor’s jobless rate shows big dip to 8.1% — 10th highest in Canada
05 Dec 2025
The border city's unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 per cent for November, according to numbers released by Friday by Statistics Canada.
Driver critically injured in 2-vehicle crash involving transport truck in Lambton County
05 Dec 2025
OPP say the accident happened Thursday morning at an intersection of Highway 40 in St. Clair Township.
Detroit's own crime-fighter RoboCop finally stands guard in Motor City
05 Dec 2025
A statue of the movie character has been welcomed by fans since it began standing guard over Detroit in the Motor City's Eastern Market area.
OPP charge 23-year-old with 2nd-degree murder in Lambton Shores homicide
05 Dec 2025
Provincial police in Lambton County have charged a 23-year-old man with second degree murder following a death investigation that began this past Saturday.
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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.
