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Windsor Stadium holds many memories, as building goes up for sale
28 Jan 2026
Windsor Stadium is now up for sale, according to the Greater Essex County District School Board (GECDSB) which currently owns the facility. The board, sharing on its website that it is now accepting s
A look at the new Coronation Park Sports and Recreation Centre
28 Jan 2026
The new Coronation Park Sports and Recreation Centre is now open. CBC's Tristan Mottershead looks into a few of the Edmonton building's newest features.
B.C. man gets 5 months in jail over videos, images posted to Pornhub without consent
28 Jan 2026
Judge sentenced the man to five months in custody and 18 months probation, finding the "pre-meditated and revenge motivated nature of the acts" he committed placed it in a more "egregious category" than other cases.
Saskatchewan driver arrested after fatal collision in northeast B.C., police say
28 Jan 2026
A 25-year-old Swift Current, Sask., man has been arrested and could face criminal charges following a fatal three-vehicle collision on Jan. 26 on Highway 97, north of Fort St. John, B.C.
Star quarterback Nathan Rourke to stay with B.C. Lions through 2028
28 Jan 2026
Rourke was named both the league's most outstanding player and the top Canadian in 2025 after helping the Lions finish second in the West Division with an 11-7 record.
Alberta justices speak up about independence after premier muses about directing the courts
28 Jan 2026
Gerber Arrowroot biscuits recalled due to possible presence of plastic and paper
28 Jan 2026
Nestlé Canada is recalling some of its Gerber Arrowroot biscuits because of the possible presence of soft plastic and/or paper pieces.
After decades of calls from First Nations, Yukon gov’t says it’s close to finalizing a cancer strategy
28 Jan 2026
Nearly two decades after the Council of Yukon First Nations first released a report calling for a cancer strategy, the Yukon government says it’s close to finalizing one. The strategy would support Yu
Alaska Highway closed south of Whitehorse, traffic being rerouted
28 Jan 2026
RCMP in Yukon say the Alaska Highway is closed in both directions near the McClintock River bridge and North McClintock Road, south of Whitehorse.
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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
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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?
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.
