Kathy Baughman-McLeod, who leads the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance, wants extreme heat treated as extreme weather events like those that “tear the roof off your house or blow down trees." | Continue reading
The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as its preferred suitor to buy the popular video-sharing app, according to a source familiar with the deal. | Continue reading
40 years ago, Don Starkell and his teenaged sons set off from Winnipeg’s Red River on a world-record-setting canoe trip. | Continue reading
Pandemic restrictions have closed the border between two remote communities in B.C. and Alaska, meaning children in Alaska who were supposed to attend school in B.C. are stuck at home. They and their parents are asking Public Safety Minister Bill Blair to allow them to form a cro … | Continue reading
It has been more than five years since Dr. James Hamblin had a proper shower. | Continue reading
U.S. democracy is reaching a boiling point. Spend just a few hours in one swing county, and you'll hear about fear: of racial violence, of a way of life disappearing, of the American republic itself in peril and of what comes after the Nov. 3 election. | Continue reading
An enormous and strange machine is being tested in the Squamish Valley, as its creator begins to train adventurous donors to the project on how to operate the unique mechanized exoskeleton. | Continue reading
Working on your trained memory can help with everything from names to long-term learning. | Continue reading
Still considered by many a fringe view of economics, MMT as it is popularly known suddenly seems to be moving into the mainstream as governments borrow and spend. | Continue reading
In 2011, American psychologist Daryl Bem proved the impossible. He showed that precognition — the ability to sense the future — is real. His study was explosive, and shook the very foundations of psychology. Contributor Alexander B. Kim in Vancouver explores the ‘replication cris … | Continue reading
New research from Brock University shows those trying to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are up against an intriguing obstacle: people lying. | Continue reading
The Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) has called for an investigation following a series of vandalism attacks and acts of hate towards Masjid Toronto, located in downtown Toronto. | Continue reading
The editor behind a new academic journal that only publishes unsurprising research hopes the journal will help fix a major problem in scientific research — a bias towards surprising, unexpected results. | Continue reading
For Black babies, the race of their first doctors can be a matter of life and death. | Continue reading
A Toronto-based energy company has converted an old Goderich salt mine into an energy storage facility that uses compressed air instead of batteries. The company says the technology is fuel-free and could one day save you money on your hydro bill. | Continue reading
The federal government has revealed that the Canada Revenue Agency was recently hit by two cyberattacks, compromising thousands of accounts linked to the agency's services. | Continue reading
New Yorker writer and author of Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World David Owen says people need to pay more attention to things that could damage their hearing because it is easier than ever to cause hearing loss with everyday activities. | Continue reading
Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have removed popular video game Fortnite from their app stores for violating the companies' in-app payment guidelines, prompting developer Epic Games to file federal antitrust lawsuits challenging the two companies' rules. | Continue reading
The tech industry in the Waterloo, Ont., region hopes a provocative billboard campaign in Silicon Valley will entice tech workers worried about their U.S. visa or immigration status to consider Canada. | Continue reading
Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Salome Bey — affectionately known as Canada's "First Lady of the Blues — has died. The Grammy-nominated Bey was a multi-disciplinary performer and honorary member of the Order of Canada. | Continue reading
Should the world’s problems be solved by unelected elites? Surely these are decisions we all need to be part of. Anand Giridharadas argues if we don’t trust the institutions we have for fixing the world, then let's build better institutions — this time, from the bottom up. | Continue reading
Gingko biloba trees have evolved unique ways to get around aging process | Continue reading
Sick of aiming for excellence and feeling miserable when you fall short? You’re not alone. Explore the upsides of imperfection, lowered expectations and outright failure with philosopher Daniel Milo, writer Avram Alpert, School of Life teacher Sarah Stein Lubrano and Zahra Dhanan … | Continue reading
Thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Montreal Saturday to protest against the Quebec government's mandatory mask rules. The protesters — the vast majority of whom did not wear masks — carried signs indicating a variety of motivations and ideologies. | Continue reading
The world's poorest nations are also some of its most religious, but it's not just wealth that determines a country's religiosity. In the first story in a series on religion, CBC News explores how sociologists have found income equality and access to good education and health car … | Continue reading
In the early '70s, long before Hollywood had discovered B.C., CBC producers greenlit a show about a man salvaging logs in a West Coast fishing village. It would run for almost 20 years and have a lasting impact on both audiences and the industry. | Continue reading
Residents of Ontario can now download a new app that can tell them whether they have been around someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 over the previous two weeks. But while government officials say the goal is to make the contact notification app available across the coun … | Continue reading
Two of Canada's provincial privacy officers say that they're still unable to release a full report about last year's security breach at LifeLabs because the company has gone to court to stop them. | Continue reading
The Haudenosaunee gave lacrosse to the world, and now they're being prevented from playing the game on the world stage, says the executive director of the Iroquois Nationals team. | Continue reading
United States citizenship is one of the most prized citizenships in the world, giving citizens to both live and work inside the country and travel, hassle-free, to 185 others. Because of COVID-19, that number is down to 28. | Continue reading
Doctors around the world have been baffled by the new medical trend that's happening in multiple places around the world, including Denmark, Ireland, Australia — and Calgary. | Continue reading
Few have seen these happy little landscapes in person, and they're in Penticton all summer. | Continue reading
U.S. President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr announced Wednesday that federal agents will surge into Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat rising crime, expanding the administration's intervention in local enforcement as Trump runs for re-election under a "law-a … | Continue reading
The troubled Phoenix pay system for Canadian public servants will need over a billion more dollars to fix once and for all, a process that could take another four years, a federal watchdog says. | Continue reading
World renowned architect Frank Gehry is comfortable talking about his work but when asked about his early days, the 91 year old pauses. "Now you're gonna make me cry." In a wide-sweeping conversation he recalls the roots of his curiosity, and they days when he's build wood block … | Continue reading
A newly released audio recording suggests Iran's highest authorities allowed commercial airliners to fly in and out of Tehran during the period of intense military activity when Flight 752 was shot down — because closing the airspace would have given away the regime's plan to str … | Continue reading
We consider possible harm to Mars, whether it's ethical to ask astronauts to go on such a dangerous trip, and the potential moral hazards around terraforming and 'colonizing' another planet. | Continue reading
Research shows essential cues of real life interaction from pheromones to body language just don’t work on video chats as the lockdown exhausts reserves of office sociability and excludes newbies. | Continue reading
Last month in B.C. a record number of people died from an overdose; 170. It is more than the total number of deaths due to Coronavirus in the province; 167. More than 400 people in B.C. have died from overdosing during the three months that COVID-19 measures have been in place. | Continue reading
Cirque du Soleil, the circus company that was once one of Quebec's most successful businesses, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday. | Continue reading
The man who killed 22 people in rural Nova Scotia stockpiled cash, food and fuel due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, but he gave the people close to him no indications he was plotting an attack, according to the RCMP. | Continue reading
A closer look at people who tested positive for COVID-19 but never developed symptoms has found that such asymptomatic carriers have few to no detectable antibodies just weeks after infection, suggesting they may not develop lasting immunity. | Continue reading
Canada's highest court opened the door to a proposed $400-million class-action lawsuit against Uber today after it sided with a driver in a case over whether workers can settle disputes with the ride-hailing company through a costly, foreign arbitration process or through Ontario … | Continue reading
New research by NASA scientists lends further support to the theory that, beneath the thick, icy crust of Europa, the Jovian moon's interior ocean could be habitable. | Continue reading
Here's what's happening around the world with COVID-19 on Wednesday. | Continue reading
Bob McDonald's blog: Researchers calculate the nearest is probably 17,000 light years away | Continue reading
The Canadian Food inspection Agency is investigating after the gruesome discovery of dozens of dead and dying dogs aboard a recent flight from Ukraine. | Continue reading
Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to offer high-speed internet to Canadians living in remote areas by beaming it to them via satellites. | Continue reading