Terry Seguin talks to John Poulos, president and CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, the company that supplied the tabulator voting machines in last week's election. | Continue reading
Alexander Hamilton is almost universally depicted as an abolitionist in popular modern works, from Ron Chernow's 2004 biography, Hamilton, to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning show, Hamilton: An American Musical. But after poring over ledgers and correspondence of Hamilton … | Continue reading
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic may have boosted failing public trust in science and scientists, a new survey has found. | Continue reading
Citizen Lab director Ronald J. Deibert will deliver this year's Massey Lectures, arguing that the internet, especially social media, has an increasingly toxic influence in every aspect of life. | Continue reading
Facial recognition technology previously used on humans has huge implications for managing bear-human interactions, says UVic ecologist who has developed software to identify grizzly bears. | Continue reading
Halifax-based shellfish giant Clearwater Seafoods announced Monday it has a billion-dollar deal to sell the company to a partnership of Premium Brands of British Columbia and a coalition of Mi'kmaq First Nation communities led by the Membertou band in Cape Breton and Miawpukek in … | Continue reading
The Liberal government is promising to spend more than a billion dollars to connect most Canadian to high-speed internet by 2026. | Continue reading
Julie McSorley says she learned an important lesson after she and her friend were nearly swallowed by a humpback: "Whales need their space." | Continue reading
Garry Sowerby and Ken Langley wanted to take a good road trip in the fall of 1980. They decided, why not take the greatest road trip ever and drive right around the world? | Continue reading
Less than a week before millions of Canadians are set to pay their respects to veterans by wearing a poppy, a national grocery store chain has banned its employees from wearing the symbol of remembrance while on the job. | Continue reading
Since 1961, CBC Radio has been broadcasting the CBC Massey Lectures, bringing Canadians some of the greatest minds of our times, exploring the ideas that make us who we are and asking the questions that make us better human beings. | Continue reading
We are used to hearing how capitalism goes hand-in-hand with freer, more democratic societies. But it's not always so. Investigative journalist Bruce Livesey reveals historical examples that show when wealth becomes concentrated among the very few, the stage can be set for totali … | Continue reading
The regulations put forth by the Liberal government today in a new bill focus on clarifying that online streaming platforms like Netflix and Spotify will fall under the Broadcasting Act in a new category called "online undertakings" and will face monetary penalties if they don't … | Continue reading
More than three years after his death, a man who was shot dead and found in a burnt-out SUV near Squamish, B.C., has been identified as a U.S. citizen known for spreading racist, neo-Nazi ideologies and for a massive spam email campaign that led to a $12.8-million US lawsuit. | Continue reading
The real estate company behind some of Canada's most popular shopping centres embedded cameras inside their digital information kiosks at 12 shopping malls across Canada to collect millions of images and used facial recognition technology without customers' knowledge or consent, … | Continue reading
Bob McDonald's blog: the airline manufacturer is betting on hydrogen fuel to reach carbon targets | Continue reading
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced another contract to buy a promising COVID-19 vaccine now in development — part of a plan to secure millions of vaccine doses to inoculate Canadians from the novel coronavirus. | Continue reading
James Randi, a successful magician, skeptic and master debunker of self-proclaimed spoon benders and mind readers has died at the age of 92. A man with a “playful quality attached to the strongest morality” is how Penn Jillette, part of the magic and performance duo Penn and Tell … | Continue reading
A data analysis of the most serious breaches of Ontario’s long-term care home safety legislation reveals that six in seven care homes are repeat offenders, and there are virtually no consequences for homes that break that law repeatedly. | Continue reading
After being stiffed by the Soviets for a job he did in 1967, Wally Edwards had one of their ships seized to extract his money in 1980. | Continue reading
A widow is locked in a four-year battle with Apple over online material she already legally owns — unless she jumps through complicated and expensive hoops. Experts say tech companies refusing to hand over online assets is a big problem that will only get bigger. | Continue reading
A Canadian researcher has found that the virus that causes COVID-19 can hijack a pain receptor on our cells, using it to get into the cell, but also blocking its ability to signal pain. | Continue reading
James Hobson and his team at Hacksmith Industries in Kitchener, Ont., have created a hyper-realistic, retractable plasma lightsaber that reaches a scorching heat of 2,200 C. | Continue reading
The federal government says it's investing $20 million in the nuclear industry to help Canada meet its target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. | Continue reading
The federal government says it's investing $20 million in the nuclear industry to help Canada meet its target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. | Continue reading
With the rise of mindfulness and the growth of brain research, Buddhism and science have become fast friends. Philosopher Evan Thompson is skeptical about the contemporary characterization of Buddhism. His book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist, offers both a critique of Buddhist exceptio … | Continue reading
It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items. | Continue reading
It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items. | Continue reading
Alberta is planning to become the plastic recycling hub for Western Canada, but investigative journalist Laura Sullivan says despite decades of publicity, the majority of plastic still can't be recycled effectively. | Continue reading
Less than 10 per cent of the plastics we’ve used have been recycled. A new documentary reveals why | Continue reading
The end is coming for plastic grocery bags, straws and cutlery after the federal government announced today which single-use plastics will be covered by a national ban coming into effect next year. | Continue reading
The results of a B.C. research project that gave thousands of dollars to homeless people are in and, according to one researcher, could challenge stereotypes about people "living on the margins." | Continue reading
Canadians shouldn't expect a COVID-19 vaccine to be a "silver bullet" that will bring a swift end to the coronavirus pandemic and a return to normal, according to the country's chief public health officer. | Continue reading
A Western University study suggests the so-called 'Frankenbrooms' that were banned by the World Curling Federation in 2015 can leave scratches in the ice that are up to four times deeper than their legal counterparts. | Continue reading
Police forces across Ontario engaged in broad, illegal searches of a now-defunct COVID-19 database, two civil rights groups alleged Wednesday, claiming the use of the portal violated individual privacy rights for months. | Continue reading
A new homeowner discovers a stranger can disarm the alarm, unlock windows and doors and track when she comes and goes from her new house. Security and privacy experts say the situation is the result of weak laws and cancellation policies written to benefit companies instead of pr … | Continue reading
After the Reddit community Coronavirus launched in January, the forum was bombarded with misinformation and disinformation — content that volunteers had to sort through for hours a day. Two moderators share the experience of monitoring social media communities for rule-violating … | Continue reading
Rather than planning COVID-19 economic recoveries around old capitalist norms, one business-world advisor believes that global enterprises need to take steps to re-invent their approach to capitalism by taking steps to combat growing inequality. | Continue reading
Shopify says it has terminated two "rogue" employees who were involved in a scheme to steal customer information from some of the company's merchants. | Continue reading
Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O'Regan says Canadians have to be open to more nuclear power generation if this country is to meet the carbon emissions reduction targets it agreed to five years ago in Paris. | Continue reading
The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the government announced Monday. | Continue reading
Prescription eyeglasses can range anywhere from the mid-$200s to more than $1000 a pair in Canada. They're an expensive, but necessary, product for many. But why are they so expensive? | Continue reading
The U.S. Commerce Department has issued an order that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok, starting Sunday. | Continue reading
Former California governor Jerry Brown says he knew his home state a would face a climate change reckoning, but he didn't think it would come this soon. | Continue reading
A 20-year-old B.C. motorist who who found reclining behind the wheel of a Tesla while the electric vehicle was on autopilot has been charged by the RCMP in Alberta with speeding. | Continue reading
DeAnne Smith and Arthur Simeon have each other’s number when they discuss if social distancing improves dating. | Continue reading
The photographic misadventures of a marine scientist from the Smithsonian led to a new line of scientific inquiry into how the ocean's blackest fish disguise themselves in the deep. | Continue reading
Los Angeles-based Kingswood Capital Management is buying the outdoor goods retailer through the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. | Continue reading