Canadian Broadcasting Corp
'Everybody starts somewhere': Dawson City, Yukon's youngest DJ making his mark landing major gigs
11 Aug 2026
Dawson City, Yukon resident Steven McIsaac is only 12-years-old but he's already booking sets under the name DJ Waffles. McIsaac started learning to DJ a year ago and since then he's played in front of hundreds of people.
‘Very disturbing for everyone’: Kinngait, Nunavut, mayor describes community in mourning
11 Aug 2026
Kinngait Mayor Jimmy Manning said that everyone in his small community is hurting after a woman died last week. One man has been charged with first-degree murder.
Fifth annual Pinoy Fiestacular highlights Filipino culture in Whitehorse
11 Aug 2026
The fifth annual Pinoy Fiestacular brought cultural food, song and dance performances and traditional games to Whitehorse. The president of the Canadian Association of Filipinos of the Yukon says one
Construction delayed on $350M deepsea port in Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut
11 Aug 2026
The port, which would be located near the entrance to the Northwest Passage, would service ships carrying supplies, as well as tourism and fishing vessels. Construction was slated to begin this summer
Profits, production plummet at IOC as it aims for ‘strategic operational reset’
11 Aug 2026
Labrador City’s iron ore mine is experiencing a downward slump in both profits and production, according to its latest financial update — and it will take years to address.
Daniel Mullen running to become mayor of Charlottetown in fall municipal election
11 Aug 2026
Entrepreneur Daniel Mullen is once again throwing his hat into the ring to become mayor of Charlottetown. He announced his intention to run for the city’s top job in a social media post late last month.
Maritime oyster harvesters can get $40K to give up fishing licences
11 Aug 2026
Wild oyster harvesters in P.E.I., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick can receive $40,000 to permanently retire their oyster licences or permits under a new voluntary buyback program.
Woman's court appearance on fatal hit and run south of Fredericton delayed
11 Aug 2026
Vanessa Ricketson, 27, was charged four months after a hit and run in the Oromocto area that left a man dead in March. Her scheduled appearance on Tuesday was pushed back as her lawyers await evidence.
Look up for a rare celestial show in Quebec on Wednesday
11 Aug 2026
On Wednesday, a meteor shower will combine with a partial solar eclipse to create a rare celestial alignment.
He'd never paddled before. 2 years later, this New Zealander canoed across Canada
11 Aug 2026
New Zealander and world traveller Tom Hudson has arrived in Montreal after canoeing across the country's many lakes and rivers. Despite no previous paddling experience, he bought a canoe and set off o
Featured
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.
