It's a phenomenon that Canada hasn't seen much of since the Spanish Civil War — Canadians volunteering to risk their lives for another country, and for a cause. | Continue reading
NATO allies rejected Ukraine's demand for no-fly zones on Friday, saying they were increasing support but that stepping in directly would lead to a broader, even more brutal European war so far limited to Russia's assault on its neighbour. | Continue reading
From Beethoven to Vivaldi, metal artists have drawn inspiration from composers for years. | Continue reading
Many of us don’t want to close Zoom and go back to your version of “normal.” Our existence wasn’t valued there. It often wasn’t even acknowledged, writes John Loeppky. | Continue reading
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is revoking the use of the Emergencies Act, the powerful legislative tool that was used to quash the protests and blockades that erupted in Ottawa and at border crossings over recent weeks. | Continue reading
'Not Wordle - Gitksan' is modelled after the popular online game — but features words in Gitxsanimx, the language of the Gitxsan Nation in northwestern B.C. | Continue reading
More than 200 bank accounts worth nearly $8 million were frozen when the federal government used emergency powers to end a massive protest occupation of downtown Ottawa. | Continue reading
Denmark health officials say they no longer consider COVID-19 "a socially critical disease" and have lifted most of their pandemic restrictions. But one epidemiologist says Canada should not take a similar approach. | Continue reading
Installation of a transatlantic submarine telecommunications cable for tech giant Facebook on the seabed off southern Nova Scotia is set to begin as soon as this week. | Continue reading
The billionaire who launched on his own SpaceX flight last year is headed back up, aiming for an even higher orbit and the chance to take part in a spacewalk. | Continue reading
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announces new regulations to crowdfunding sites and their payment service providers as part of the deployment of the Emergency Act. | Continue reading
Although Canadians gave more money than Americans, more than half of the donations to the convoy protest made through the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo came from the United States, an analysis of hacked data from the site reveals. | Continue reading
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told his caucus he will invoke the never-before-used Emergencies Act to give the federal government extra powers to handle the protests across the country, according to sources. | Continue reading
Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from Animal House to Ghostbusters has died. | Continue reading
Tracking pathogens that could spark future pandemics is no easy feat, but thanks to the help of a supercomputer, a Canadian researcher is among a team of scientists who’ve uncovered thousands of viruses that might one day pose a threat to humans. | Continue reading
Comedian and actor Bob Saget, who was found dead in a hotel room in Orlando, Fla., last month at age 65, died from head trauma after accidentally hitting his head, his family said on Wednesday. | Continue reading
The co-founder of Peloton is stepping down as chief executive after an extended streak of tumult at the exercise and treadmill company, which will also cut almost 3,000 jobs. | Continue reading
A Texas butterfly conservation centre is shutting its doors indefinitely after becoming the focal point of baseless right-wing smears and conspiracy theories about the U.S.-Mexico border. | Continue reading
The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe says it will stop payments to the organizers of Freedom Convoy 2022 because the protest violates its rules on violence and harassment. | Continue reading
A parliamentary committee has voted unanimously to call officials from the popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe to answer questions about a fundraiser that has collected more than $10.1 million to support the anti-vaccine mandate protest in Ottawa. | Continue reading
The Omicron variant wave will help boost our collective immunity to COVID-19, but that comes at a high cost, multiple experts warn — from surging short-term hospitalizations to longer-term health impacts. | Continue reading
Central banks around the world are focused on developing official digital currencies. | Continue reading
A convoy of thousands of truckers and other protesters have descended on Parliament Hill to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions — a raucous demonstration that has police on high alert for possible violence even as organizers urge the … | Continue reading
Culinary scientist Ali Bouzari set out to prove ‘beyond a reasonable doubt, the exact mechanism by which potatoes got tasty.’ | Continue reading
For three months last year, medical and environmental experts met to try to solve the mystery of a “neurological syndrome of unknown cause” in New Brunswick. But provincial public health officials halted the meetings in May. | Continue reading
A program pairing a police officer with a mental health worker in Hamilton has reduced the apprehension rate under the Mental Health Act from 75 per cent of calls police respond to for people in crisis to 17 per cent. | Continue reading
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé said in the face of the Omicron variant, which appears to be doubling its spread every few days, the government had to take action to prevent the provincial health-care system from becoming overwhelmed. | Continue reading
A management strategy known as the results-only work environment (ROWE) has seen a surge in interest during the COVID-19 pandemic, says one of the architects of the system. | Continue reading
The COVID-19 landscape is changing rapidly, and the things we thought would protect us are suddenly in need of a serious rethink – including, and perhaps especially, masks. | Continue reading
When a Florida insurance company slipped a secret contest onto the last page of its 4,000-word travel insurance policy, it never expected anyone to cash in. | Continue reading
New research from a team in Hong Kong offers a clue to why the Omicron variant is spreading so astonishingly fast around the world: it may be multiplying 70 times quicker than earlier strains within our lower airways. | Continue reading
In 2021, B.C. has faced a deadly heat wave and catastrophic floods. Kim Stanley Robinson predicted both of them in his science fiction novel The Ministry for the Future. After returning from COP26 in Glasgow, Robinson reflects on the crisis we’re in and how to achieve "the best-c … | Continue reading
In Kenya's Great Rift Valley, climate change is being blamed for unprecedented rainfall over the past decade and flooding that has displaced thousands. | Continue reading
Upon hearing that no newborn babies in the U.K. were named Nigel in 2016, Nigel Smith began to worry that the people with whom he shared a first name were a "dying breed." Instead of going into mourning, however, he decided to have some fun with it. | Continue reading
Three provincial privacy watchdogs have ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop collecting, using and disclosing images of people without consent. | Continue reading
In the last decade, efforts to reframe failure have pushed it to the surface of popular culture. People like Richard Branson, Elon Musk, and Oprah Winfrey are all hawking failure as the secret to 21st-century success. Was Samuel Beckett right: fail again, fail better? | Continue reading
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2021, a year that saw his electric car company become the most valuable carmaker in the world and his rocket company soar to the edge of space with an all-civilian crew. | Continue reading
Once dismissed as radical, the idea of fare-free public transit appears to be gaining traction in Ottawa. Advocates say where there's a will, there's a way. | Continue reading
The latest entry into the Impossible Foods world — Impossible Pork — may have wound up alienating part of its target market. | Continue reading
It's unlikely anyone will knock Google off its perch, but there is space for alternatives, experts say | Continue reading
Shares in at-home exercise company Peloton fell to their lowest level in 19 months on Friday after a character in the Sex and the City reboot died after using one of the company's devices in the pilot episode. | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have created a battery that works even when twisted or stretched to twice its normal length and wrung through the laundry. | Continue reading
A British appellate court opened the door Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States by overturning a lower court ruling that found the WikiLeaks founder's mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system. | Continue reading
The New Zealand government plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry. | Continue reading
Three minutes of exposure to a deep wave red LED can improve vision in patients with declining eyesight for about one week. | Continue reading
Researchers have found evidence that particles emitted by the sun may have combined with space dust on asteroids to contribute to our seas and oceans. | Continue reading
This week, a look at the evolution of search engines - and whether alternatives to all-powerful Google may take hold, or at least force it to adapt to growing privacy concerns. | Continue reading
Ice core samples suggest that human influence on the atmosphere goes back centuries before the industrial revolution. | Continue reading