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- 12/7/16 20:03
Children who watch more TV between the ages of two and four may increase their risk of having a large waist size and weaker muscular fitness by the end of grade 4, Quebec research suggests.
Children who watch more TV between the ages of two and four may increase their risk of having a large waist size and weaker muscular fitness by the end of grade 4, Quebec research suggests.
The British government says it will make all publicly-funded scientific research available for anyone for free by 2014. The move would cut the profits of academic journals and save millions for universities.
Canada has landed near the bottom of the first international energy efficiency rating of 12 major economies.
As a drought continues on P.E.I., fish are getting hard to find in the province's rivers.
Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service.
The International Olympic Committee has loosened rules regarding the use of social media by athletes and volunteers participating in the 2012 London Games.
Hootsuite to Shopify, Freshbooks or BNotions? We ask the experts what might be the next big thing on the tech front.
SUNDAY 15. JULY 2012
Scientists and researchers are gathered in Vancouver to share information on dementia, which costs North Americans hundreds of billions of dollars each year in health care costs.
A man whose prized sports car was stolen 42 years ago, recovered the vehicle after spotting it on eBay, authorities said Sunday.
A Russian Soyuz craft has been launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan, carrying three astronauts on their way to the International Space Station.
Research in Motion has been hit with another setback as a Northern California jury ordered the troubled BlackBerry maker to pay $147.2 million in a patent lawsuit.
SATURDAY 14. JULY 2012
Juvenile sockeye salmon likely didn't have enough food to survive as they travelled in poor conditions through British Columbia's Georgia Strait in 2007, resulting in abysmal returns to the Fraser River two years later, a new study suggests.
Churches across Canada are erecting massive cellphone towers on their properties as cash-strapped congregations help feed the country's insatiable desire for cellular coverage, CBC's John Lancaster reports.
FRIDAY 13. JULY 2012
Apple has put its products back on an environmental rating registry after complaints following its decision last month to withdraw from the program.
A solar storm that began with a massive flare on the sun's surface Thursday is due to slam into Earth's magnetic field Saturday morning, but scientists say it won't affect power grids or air traffic control.
A Russian Soyuz rocket has been moved into place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan in preparation for the Saturday night blast-off of the spacecraft, which will carry a three-member crew to the International Space Station.
Netflix is more popular among couch potatoes than investors a year after its polarizing decision to raise U.S. prices for video subscription services, with its stock sitting at 70 per cent below its peak price of nearly $305 US a year ago.
The popular social news-aggregator website Digg has been sold to new York -based tech development firm Betaworks for a reported $500,000 US, much less than the $160 million US at which it was once valued and the $45 million in venture capital it had reportedly...
Canada's spy chief backs the Conservative government's troubled bid to bolster Internet surveillance powers, and has offered to help tweak the legislation to make it more palatable to a wary public.
The top court's decisions about downloading video and music represent mostly good news for consumers, while students benefit from access to photocopied research material. Tech writer Peter Nowak provides a summary of what the rulings mean.
Spearheads and DNA found at the Paisley Caves in Oregon suggest that a separate group of people using different hunting tools arrived in North America several hundred years prior to the Clovis culture.
THURSDAY 12. JULY 2012
Decreased demand for electricity and increased capacity to generate power have helped Ontario stabilize its grid since the consumption record in August 2006.
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it is investigating reports of a security breach that might have exposed nearly half a million users' email addresses and passwords.
The B.C. government is dropping some of the last regulations preventing residents from ordering wine from other provinces over the internet, and it is hoping other provinces will follow suit.
The Supreme Court has scrapped a royalty paid to songwriters and music publishers for downloading music, but maintained the tariff for streaming music over the internet.