We know from witnesses and reporting that the Beirut explosion earlier this week caused massive damage within about a three-kilometre radius of the blast. What if such an explosion happened in Canada? See how extensive the damage would be in these five port...
FRIDAY 7. AUGUST 2020
A nebula and a pair of galaxies will now be referred to by a string of numbers as NASA reviews “insensitive” and “actively harmful”...
Artists call it painting "en game air" - using the virtual landscapes of video games as a source of inspiration for painters of all levels. And while it has been going on for years, the isolating, quarantine conditions of the pandemic have made this approach to visual art even more...
Two years ago, geologist Laura MacNeil discovered the fossilized footprints of a 300-million-year-old reptile on a P.E.I. beach. Now she wants to show others how it's...
COVID-19, plus an anticipated "extremely active" hurricane season, are among the reasons why the Canadian Hurricane Centre is encouraging people to be prepared for a major storm before there's one in the...
A Toronto woman thought she had taken all the right steps to avoid a job scam. She didn't know that the company that hired her, which she thought was Canadian, was fake and using a stolen Ukrainian...
There are federal codes and rules around the sale, transportation and storage of ammonium nitrate; it would be an extraordinary regulatory violation to have thousands of tonnes of the chemical languishing unchecked as officials say was done in...
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the downside of urban beekeeping and whether 2020 might end up being the hottest year on record.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled sweeping bans on U.S. transactions with China's ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent, operator of messenger app WeChat, in a major escalation of tensions with...
THURSDAY 6. AUGUST 2020
Already smashing records, this year's hyperactive Atlantic hurricane season is about to get even nastier, forecasters predict. In the coming months, they expect to run out of traditional hurricane names and see about twice as much storm activity as in a normal...
The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley banning federal employees from using video-sharing app TikTok on government-issued devices, amid threats from the White House to ban the...
A new report from the University of Waterloo says provincial governments aren't moving fast enough to protect homes and other buildings from the ravages of flooding. On average, the report gave provinces a grade of C for flood...
Researchers from three Maritime universities are hoping microbes collected from the bottom of a lake near an abandoned gold mine in Dartmouth, N.S., will provide a model for how to clean up contaminated sites across the province in a quicker and less-intrusive...
First of all, don't call them murder hornets, says provincial apiarist.
The dwindling witnesses to the world's first atomic bombing marked its 75th anniversary Thursday, with the mayor and others noting the Japanese government's refusal to sign a nuclear weapons ban treaty, highlighting its...
Facebook has deleted a post by U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time, saying it violated its policy against spreading misinformation about the...
The chemical compound ammonium nitrate is believed to have been the cause of the devastating explosion in Beirut on Tuesday. But how can such a chemical cause such a massive and destructive...
WEDNESDAY 5. AUGUST 2020
Kayakers at St. Martins say they were surprised to spot a shark swimming about 50 feet from them in the water near the sea caves on...
Facebook's Instagram is officially launching its answer to the hit short video app TikTok — Instagram...
Conservation officers rescued the animal found in Maple Ridge in a bit of a jam...
Video-sharing app TikTok has updated its content policies to curb misinformation on its platform ahead of the presidential election in the United States, the company said on...
Indigenous leaders in the N.W.T. and northern Alberta are "angry" about a joint decision between the federal government and the province of Alberta to cut the budget for environmental monitoring in the...
The federal government's new COVID Alert app doesn't offer 100 per cent privacy and could allow some who test positive for the coronavirus to be identified, particularly those who live in small communities or who don't interact with many...
Vaccine development normally takes years, if not decades. But scientific teams around the world are aiming to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in 12 to 18 months. Here’s how they’re speeding up the process and why they think a vaccine produced this fast will be just as safe as any...
Seventy-five years after two nuclear bombs were dropped in Japan — killing hundreds of thousands of people in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — one small community in the Northwest Territories is still haunted by its connection to the...