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‘It’s been trying… Their spirits are still up’
27 Oct 2026
It’s been a week since employees at Corner Brook’s civic centre were locked out due to failed contract negotiations. The union says it’s ready to get back to the table. Members and supporters gathered
Quebec Liberal Party challenge judicial recount results, rejected ballots, in Vachon after 3-vote loss
27 Oct 2026
The Quebec Liberal Party candidate who lost to the Parti Québécois in the riding of Vachon after a recount said her party is launching a legal challenge against the results.
Delays, cancellations after 45 Winnipeg School Division buses vandalized
27 Oct 2026
School bus routes across the Winnipeg School Division experienced delays and cancellations on Monday after nearly four dozen buses were vandalized over the weekend.
1 person unaccounted for after fire destroys Victoria apartment building
27 Oct 2026
Police say one person remains unaccounted for after a weekend fire destroyed a Victoria apartment building, the site of the former Traveller's Inn.
How this Brooklyn bar owner had Conan O’Brien in stitches on SubwayTakes
27 Oct 2026
Debbie Shields took a seat on a New York City subway and ended up joking with comedian Conan O'Brien about their fictional family. Their exchange on internet talk show SubwayTakes went viral. The Broo
Reading 9 to 5: N.W.T. one step closer to enrolling all preschoolers in Dolly’s Imagination Library
27 Oct 2026
Fundraisers on Give Like Dolly Day successfully funded every kid in Hay River. Organizers across the territory say they’re not done yet.
Haines Junction post office reopens with regular hours after weeks of disruptions
27 Oct 2026
The Haines Junction post office is expected to reopen Monday, Oct. 26, with regular hours following weeks of staffing-related closures. Canada Post says an employee from outside the community will tem
UPEI patient medical home down to 2 nurse practitioners from 5
27 Oct 2026
A smaller staff will be taking on the work at UPEI's patient medical home as Health P.E.I. searches for more nurse practitioners.
Staff shortages force Saint John courthouse client services to appointment online
27 Oct 2026
The client services counter at the Court of King’s Bench in Saint John will be closed until Nov. 6, according to a Government of New Brunswick document. As of Nov. 9, client services will be available
2 killed in separate crashes on Sunday involving ATV, motorcycle
27 Oct 2026
The New Brunswick RCMP said Monday afternoon that two separate crashes in different parts of the province killed two people.
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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.
