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Auditor general issues damning report on Nunavut's family services, again
04 Nov 2026
More than three years after Canada's auditor general issued an "urgent call to action" to improve Nunavut's troubled child and family services, another follow-up report says little has been done to fix things, and the urgency remains.
Is Yukon prepared for a big earthquake? Emergency officials gathered to train
04 Nov 2026
Research shows the Tintina Fault that stretches roughly a thousand kilometres across the Yukon may be more active than previously thought. Officials gathered for a five-day training exercise to co-ordinate how to react if there was an earthquake.
‘That glass ceiling is now broken’ says Zuccolo of mayoral win
04 Nov 2026
Amir Zuccolo will be 1st female mayor of Charlottetown in more than 50 years. CBC's Connor Lamont now with more.
Cybersecurity experts raise concerns about new security cameras coming to Montreal streets
04 Nov 2026
The City of Montreal is looking to purchase roughly 60 security cameras and around 30 licence plate reader cameras. Some experts argue there aren't sufficient legal protections regarding privacy, and the public should be concerned.
Quebec City daycare worker gets life in prison, no parole for 12 years in toddler's murder
04 Nov 2026
A former daycare worker has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 12 years in the murder of a 14-month-old girl in the Quebec City area in 2024.
Housing project aims to give young Montrealers aging out of youth protection a home
04 Nov 2026
About 2,000 kids age out of Quebec’s youth protection system every year. Almost a third of them end up on the streets. Agora Déclic, an organization that works with at-risk youth, has a plan that it b
Gatineau clears trailers in Leamy Lake Park, leaving residents seeking other options
04 Nov 2026
The City of Gatineau has cleared a trailer encampment from Leamy Lake Park and said residents could go to the homes of family or friends, or to a local shelter. Officials say such trailers in the city
Second-hand bookstore All Books to close in downtown Ottawa
04 Nov 2026
All Books has been open on Rideau Street since 1992 but will close as the neighbouring Bytowne Cinema, which owns the space, prepares to expand. The CBC’s Chuck Tinte reports.
Specialty food bank that caters to Durham Region residents looking for home indoors
04 Nov 2026
A food bank that caters to residents in Durham Region with complex health and dietary needs is looking for a new home indoors.
Why Mississauga, Brampton residents should care about the U.S. midterms
04 Nov 2026
With Americans heading to the polls Tuesday, CBC’s Nav Nanwa examines how the U.S. midterm results could ripple through Peel’s automotive and steel sectors.
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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.
