As universities and colleges increasingly shift classes online, some experts are warning instructors to change their approach to teaching in order to curb a perceived rise in cases of suspected cheating. | Continue reading
The CH-148 Cyclone was cutting-edge tech when it became the Canadian military's new maritime helicopter. After a crash killed six service members, investigators are being confronted with some awkward questions about how ready both the machine and the military were for fly-by-wire … | Continue reading
The petition draws attention to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's dark past, which it says included misogyny and racism. | Continue reading
The Canadian air force has mapped out a plan to return its maritime helicopter fleet to service after narrowing down the possible causes of a fatal crash off the coast Greece earlier this spring — an accident that claimed the lives of six military members. | Continue reading
The Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) is being extended by two more months, even as the government encourages people to look for jobs and to go back to work when it's possible to do so. | Continue reading
Fighting the urge to push something off until later starts with understanding why we want to in the first place, says Tim Pychyl, an associate professor of psychology at Carleton University. | Continue reading
Several workers of a high-profile company say they were pressured into giving up paid vacation days, then told to lie about it on their timecards or risk job losses. Labour experts say it's one of many cases where companies are being accused of breaking the rules to save money du … | Continue reading
A B.C. archaeologist is digging through the garbage of a gold rush restaurant to unearth the history of the several thousand Chinese miners who used to dine there, 150 years ago. | Continue reading
The New Yorker's Jill Lepore takes a look back at how the polio vaccine saved lives and changed the course of history, and how resistance to it may be repeated in the era of COVID-19. | Continue reading
One of the scientists escorted from the National Microbiology Lab last year amid an RCMP investigation was responsible for a shipment of Ebola and Henipah viruses to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory four months earlier. Coronavirus was not part of the shipment. | Continue reading
The New Yorker's Jill Lepore takes a look back at how the polio vaccine saved lives and changed the course of history, and how resistance to it may be repeated in the era of COVID-19. | Continue reading
Three of the authors of an influential article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients retracted the study on concerns about the quality of the data. | Continue reading
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. will both use equipment from Scandinavian component makers Nokia and Ericsson to build out their next-generation 5G networks in Canada. | Continue reading
Oblivion's Wake is a personal essay by David Huebert, part of CBC Books' Transmission series about life during COVID-19. | Continue reading
University of Victoria paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger has been awarded a National Geographic grant to scrape and test genetic material from cave art created around 40,000 years ago to find out who did the drawings. | Continue reading
The Canadian military has drawn the curtain back on horrific allegations of elder abuse in five Ontario long-term care homes, with reports of residents being bullied, drugged and left for hours and days in soiled bedding. | Continue reading
It's a scheme right out of a Hollywood script — and it worked, for a while. A Franco-Israeli man was sentenced to 11 years in prison for an elaborate scheme in which he pretended to be the country's defence minister over phone and video calls. | Continue reading
The more-than-a-century-old car rental firm Hertz Global Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday after its business all but vanished during the coronavirus pandemic and talks with creditors failed to result in needed relief. | Continue reading
Scientists around the world are working on COVID. So why don’t we have more answers? | Continue reading
Koalas have been observed licking rainwater as it cascades down the smooth trunks of eucalyptus trees | Continue reading
Human bones from a Bulgarian cave suggest our species arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought, sharing the continent much longer with Neanderthals. | Continue reading
The search for a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic has started a global race never before seen in the history of medical research. Matthew Herder, the director of the Public Health Law Institute at Dalhousie University, raises questions about the funding model currently in pla … | Continue reading
Anya Pogharian never thought her high school science fair project would bring her international attention and job opportunities from around the world. | Continue reading
As our stress, anxiety and new worries build up over weeks of physical distancing and self-isolation, Harvard Medical School psychologist Deirdre Barrett has heard from many people who describe their dreams as becoming more intense, more detailed — and somehow, easier to remember … | Continue reading
Scientists have solved a lingering mystery about koala behavior — how these tree-dwelling marsupials native to Australia consume enough water to live. | Continue reading
The Canadian vice-president of Amazon Web Services has quit, citing the company's firing of employees he said voiced concerns over work conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
What Australian researchers are calling the first survey on children and the spread of COVID-19 in the class room is turning heads in Canada. The preliminary data suggests kids are not so-called superspreaders, as they're often called by epidemiologists, when it comes to influenz … | Continue reading
The coronavirus’ unusual effect on the immune system may complicate vaccine development | Continue reading
The chance of catching COVID-19 from someone coughing as they walk past you in a park is "infinitesimally small," B.C.'s provincial health officer said Wednesday. | Continue reading
Devasted by war and poverty for more than two decades, Somalia is facing an acute humanitarian crisis with up to half of its population | Continue reading
Food delivery service Foodora says it will no longer do business in Canada as of May 11. | Continue reading
Food delivery service Foodora says it will no longer do business in Canada as of May 11. | Continue reading
It took Lindsay Devers months of training and meticulous planning to plot out her marathon-length run along the Boston riverside to spell out an inspirational message for her city. But in the end, she forgot one important thing — the letter N. | Continue reading
Edmund Mark Hooper, the unfortunate loser of the classic hand game rock paper scissors, took out a mortgage on his house to pay off the debt — a fact that was acknowledged in a notarized contract. | Continue reading
As the number of successful pandemic-related scams continues to grow online, Canada's cyber spy agency is helping to launch a new — and free — threat-blocking tool for all Canadians to use. This first-of-its-kind initiative is getting tentative applause in cyber security circles. | Continue reading
The negative pressure vestibule is now being used at Abbotsford Regional, Royal Columbian and Surrey Memorial hospitals. | Continue reading
Before the pandemic hit, the idea of a universal basic income was fringe policy in much of the developed world. But now that the economy is on life support and Canadians are being paid to stay away from work, the idea is looking more like common sense to many. | Continue reading
There are now calls from politicians in both Canada and the U.S. for investigations into global entertainment giant Live Nation over its refusal to immediately refund all ticket-holders for thousands of concerts and live events disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
As emergency and intensive care doctors around the globe work frantically to save the lives of people gravely ill with COVID-19, one of the world's foremost critical care experts is warning against what he calls the misuse and overuse of mechanical ventilators. | Continue reading
To help alleviate ICU space shortages, an open-source design is allowing builders around the world to convert shipping containers into negative pressure care units. | Continue reading
Is there anything better than “the best we can do”? According to some pragmatic philosophers, it’s not about settling for less but constantly pushing for more, and more. IDEAS presents the case for a particular, ‘moderate’ brand of pragmatism that may be deeply valuable in times … | Continue reading
As physical distancing forces us to embrace new technologies, so we can stay connected while remaining apart, journalist Hannah Sung is asking what it means for our understanding of privacy and consent. | Continue reading
New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people whom may have been infected by coronavirus carriers. | Continue reading
Taiwan's cabinet has told government agencies to stop using Zoom Video Communications Inc.'s video conferencing app, the latest blow to the company as it battles criticism of its booming platform over privacy and security. | Continue reading
A global pandemic is not how we'd choose to reduce emissions, but scientists are studying how COVID-19 is affecting climate change, and how climate change could affect COVID-19. | Continue reading
A long ring finger relative to the index finger is an indicator of the success of male high-frequency financial traders, according to a British study. | Continue reading
Satellite images show a decrease in one noxious pollutant due to pandemic measures that are keeping a lot of cars in Toronto and Vancouver off the roads. | Continue reading
The continued existence of wildlife markets, which are considered potential breeding grounds for the spread of harmful viruses, means it's just a matter of time before the world is hit with another deadly pandemic, some scientists suggest. | Continue reading