- CBC - Technology & Science News
- 19/11/30 10:00
Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency says it’s struggling to find Canadians to fill vacancies in its cyber security...
Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency says it’s struggling to find Canadians to fill vacancies in its cyber security...
SpaceX has sought approval to launch more than 30,000 satellites in an effort to provide worldwide internet service. But astronomers are concerned about how this could impact not only the night sky, but valuable scientific...
FRIDAY 29. NOVEMBER 2019
Bruce Elliott is building and selling energy efficient homes that have thicker walls and insulation throughout the whole structure to keep in the heat during frigid N.W.T....
Against the backdrop of the Black Friday shopping frenzy, activists around the world are protesting consumerism and its impact on the climate ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Madrid next...
Alberta politicians seem to be looking once again to CCS as a magic bullet in the war against human-made climate...
Scientists fear that some Fraser River salmon populations could be wiped out completely following a landslide that has blocked part of the critical B.C. migration route for the last...
Chinese telecom giant Huawei is a major provider of academic research funding in Canada. That has some experts alarmed given the company's reported ties to the Chinese...
A veteran telecommunications consultant is sharing advice with consumers after nearly falling victim to a growing type of cellphone...
Canada's veterans department shied away from a proposal to use social media "influencers" to get its message out to an increasingly fractured and frustrated community of former soldiers, sailors and aircrew, federal documents...
A sea lion with gruesome injuries from a crossbow is recovering after a dramatic, community-wide rescue near Powell River, B.C., earlier this week.
A similar ban proposed by the City of Victoria has not withstood legal challenge - so will...
A bear has been blamed for a pair of vehicle break-ins at an Alaska airport parking lot that resulted in thousands of dollars in damage to one car, officials...
THURSDAY 28. NOVEMBER 2019
Students from Sturgeon Composite High School are spending their lunch hours, evenings and some weekends designing a robot that could eventually remove needle debris from public...
Days after being attacked for quoting a blog that denies climate change during a public debate, Ontario's energy minister told reporters he does believe in climate change. And that's all he told...
A legal battle between law enforcement in Ontario and tech-giant Facebook has come to an end, with both sides conceding the social media company isn't bound by Canadian laws, even though its used by millions of...
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the difficulty of recycling plastic bottles, the hubbub over Tesla's Cybertruck and a Second World War bunker that was turned into a vertical...
Chatham, Ont.-based telecom service provider TekSavvy filed a notice of appeal this week challenging a Federal Court decision ordering a number of Canadian internet service providers (ISPs) block access to the GoldTV streaming...
Consumers filed a record-breaking number of complaints against Canada's telecom companies in 2018-19 — nearly 19,300, up 35 per cent. Billing and contract disputes continue to top the list, fuelling calls by a consumer advocacy group for more price...
Farmers in central Newfoundland say the persistent agricultural pest has done major damage this growing season, and a recent provincial ban on shooting moose at night isn't helping the...
Discrimination applies to online marketplace sites such as Kijiji, human rights commission ruled.
Thirty-three metres below Clapham High Street in southwest London sits the world's first subterranean farm, called Growing...
Teenager Feroza Aziz claims her criticism of China got her temporarily kicked off TikTok. The video-sharing app's latest controversy serves as more proof the company cannot dispel the cloud of suspicion that follows it and other Chinese-owned technology marketed toward the...
The CEO of Canadian hyperloop company, TransPod, thinks he can have Albertans speeding between Calgary and Edmonton in magnetic tubes by 2030.
WEDNESDAY 27. NOVEMBER 2019
Love Dalén, a professor in evolutionary genetics in Sweden, speaks with As It Happens guest host Gillian Findlay about the specimen that is "incredibly...
The registry of dot-org web addresses is being sold off to a private equity firm — but there are concerns that could have implications for the non-profits that use the addresses (think Greenpeace or Human Rights Watch). We’re hear from both sides of the...