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Montreal transit strike enters 2nd week
16 Jun 2025
Regina mayor talks about downtown rejuvenation
16 Jun 2025
Mayor Chad Bachyinski joined The Morning Edition to talk about what the city is doing to try to keep businesses from leaving downtown Regina.
Tennis star, 93, brightens up the court
16 Jun 2025
Joyce Cutts is a former national doubles champion in tennis. At 93, she shows no signs of slowing down as she hits the tennis courts three times a week.
Battling hip issue, Aaron Brown disqualified from men's 200m for false start in Sweden
16 Jun 2025
A tough week on the track for Aaron Brown began with his slowest 200-metre race of the season and ended in disqualification for the four-time Canadian Olympian in the same event on Sunday at the BAUHAUS-galan meet in Stockholm.
As Iran launches new wave of deadly missile attacks, Israel says it has 'supremacy' in Tehran's airspace
16 Jun 2025
Undeterred by protests, Trump calls on ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities
16 Jun 2025
Thompson says finding hotel rooms for evacuees 'difficult' as Manitoba mulls invoking emergency powers
15 Jun 2025
The City of Thompson says moving wildfire evacuees from its congregate shelter to hotel lodgings should be "a top priority," but that finding accommodations is hard this time of the year.
Most Albertans will have to pay for COVID-19 shots starting this fall, province says
15 Jun 2025
Alberta's government says residents who are not immunocompromised or on social programs will soon have to pay to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Surrey, B.C., police launch team to counter extortions in South Asian community
15 Jun 2025
A series of reports of extortion from people and businesses in the South Asian community has prompted a wider investigation by police in Surrey, B.C.
Two female grizzlies killed by trains in Banff National Park
15 Jun 2025
The death of two female grizzly bears on the railway line in Banff National Park is a significant blow to the population, according to Parks Canada ecologist.
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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
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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.
