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Rethinking leadership: how Jean Marie River created a council of family representatives
10 Nov 2026
Jean Marie River has a new chief, Paul Simon, and new representatives for youth and elders, all elected on Oct. 28. But four of the councillors joining them weren’t elected in the same way.
City of Whitehorse unveils proposed capital budget
10 Nov 2026
The city has budgeted nearly $86 million. Only about a third of funding is secured. The rest — roughly $57 million — is expected to come from other levels of government.
Sachs Harbour girl recounts ‘scary, kind of cool’ encounter with polar bear
10 Nov 2026
With the sea ice around Sachs Harbour slow to develop this season, hungry polar bears are a common sight. One family had their own close encounter when a polar bear peered into their home over the weekend.
Nunavut to offer advanced lung cancer screening in upcoming pilot project
10 Nov 2026
Nunavut will soon offer early screening for lung cancer as part of a national program to bring down rates for Canada's deadliest cancer. Nunavut's lung cancer rates are almost three times the national
Byelection candidates in Inuvik Twin Lakes focus on housing, education and affordability
10 Nov 2026
Mataya Gillis, Jake Jellema, and Sallie Ross are the three candidates running to fill the vacant seat in the N.W.T. Legislative Assembly. Voting day is Nov. 24.
About half of workers in N.S. and N.L. earning less than the living wage: report
10 Nov 2026
A report released Monday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is calling on governments in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and P.E.I. to raise their minimum wage rates, which sit well
N.L. premier sidesteps question about minister's claim that media 'twists' stories
10 Nov 2026
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham says he values the media but is stopping short of saying whether he stands by claims made by a minister who said the media twists stories.
Missing boaters sheltered in abandoned Labrador cabin, burned hill-top fire to get rescued, says son
10 Nov 2026
A multi-day search for two missing boaters ended in tears of joy this weekend, after Julius Lampe and Ephriam Merkuratsuk survived a weekend against the Labrador elements.
School bus and SUV involved in N.L. highway crash, police say
10 Nov 2026
A highway accident near the exit to the Bull Arm Fabrication Site involving a bus and a sport utility vehicle is under investigation by RCMP.
Motorcoaches now running on rural P.E.I. transit routes to keep up with growing demand
10 Nov 2026
With ridership continuing to grow, motorcoaches are now running many of the "toonie transit" routes to western Prince Edward Island and Three Rivers.
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Wishful thinking about cars
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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.
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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.
