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Rare fishing feat for first-time salmon angling siblings
15 Aug 2026
Imagine hooking, playing and landing a salmon the first day ever casting a fly line — that's what happened to two brothers last month.
St. Pierre soccer players welcome chance to compete at N.L. Summer Games
15 Aug 2026
There are 10 regions represented at the Newfoundland and Labrador Summer Games, and one of those regions makes the provincial event an international competition.
How a $40 parking ticket became a fight for accessibility in Quebec
15 Aug 2026
When Charlie Rousseau visited her hometown of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., for a festival in June, she noticed there were old-style parking meters that required users to slip change into a slot to pay. The pr
What you need to know about the massive hospital coming to Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Que.
15 Aug 2026
Your questions answered about the upcoming Vaudreuil-Soulanges hospital — including what stage the project is in, staffing concerns and when it opens to the public.
Ford City councillor Ed Sleiman will not seek re-election this fall
15 Aug 2026
Sleiman, first elected in 2010, said he's made the difficult decision not to put his name on the ballot this year.
Considering climate change impacts and solutions around Thunder Bay
15 Aug 2026
As this summer's wildfire season brings conversations about climate change impacts to the forefront, CBC Thunder Bay's Superior Morning asked three people with backgrounds in climate change research,
Tree planting started as a summer job, but it also taught me what it means to be Canadian
15 Aug 2026
Jackson Bonn reflects on his many seasons of work in the Canadian bush and why he can't step away from this back-breaking work.
Canadair water-bomber builder feels heat of demand as wildfires rage around the world
15 Aug 2026
As Canada, the United States and Europe grapple with another brutal wildfire season, pressure is building on the manufacturer of the Canadair "Super Scooper" water bombers to increase production, and
Instead of making hydrogen, this Canadian company is drilling for it
15 Aug 2026
A Saskatchewan company is drilling for hydrogen to prove it can be extracted from the ground at a commercial scale. Max Power says that could lead to greener, cheaper hydrogen for decarbonizing indust
65 years after the Berlin Wall was built, Germany’s east-west scars help feed a rising far-right party
15 Aug 2026
Decades after the Berlin Wall fell, observers see deep-seated regional grievances and feelings of second-class citizenship driving a surge for the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
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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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From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
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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.
