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- 09/6/16 22:40
The British government has proposed levying an $11 annual tax on telephone landlines in order to extend fast broadband access to the whole country.
The British government has proposed levying an $11 annual tax on telephone landlines in order to extend fast broadband access to the whole country.
A Canadian astronaut currently orbiting the Earth will be granted an honorary law degree this summer.
Greg Walton has been in charge of the Citizen Lab's Twitter outreach in Iran, offering access to software that help's them view banned content. CBC News reached Walton by email to find out how Iran's conflict has spread online.
There's something fishy going on with Wednesday's scheduled blastoff of the space shuttle Endeavour, but it's got nothing to do with technical glitches or complicating weather patterns.
China appeared to cave in to public pressure Tuesday by announcing that computer users are not required to install internet filtering software - though it will still come with all PCs sold on the mainland.
A rover set to explore Mars in seven years will lack a major piece of monitoring equipment because of a budget squeeze, an official from the European Space Agency said Tuesday.
Bell Canada, with headquarters in Montreal, is closing its online video store just more than a year after launching it, the company said in a note on its website.
A Canadian researcher who helped discover a hormone that has a major impact on obesity is one of two scientists awarded the lucrative Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine.
The federal government will spend $6 million on clinical research projects to speed up the development of alternatives to medical isotopes, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Tuesday.
MONDAY 15. JUNE 2009
Political dissent in Iran in the aftermath of the national election has spread not only to the streets of Tehran, but also online, where protesters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and observers of the election have battled to get news out of the country for three days.
NASA said Monday it has successfully made repairs to the space shuttle Endeavour's fuel tank, clearing the way for a Wednesday morning launch.
The shortage of medical isotopes is leading Canadian doctors to turn to medical-scan alternatives that may not be the best approach, a specialist in nuclear medicine said Monday.
More than a third of young people living on their own have dumped their landline in favour of mobile phones, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada.
Health officials have told residents of a small community on Labrador's coast to be wary of possible contamination from an abandoned military site in their midst.
Wednesday could be the next launch opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour, set to carry seven astronauts including Canadian Julie Payette, NASA said Sunday.
SATURDAY 13. JUNE 2009
Canada's three main wireless carriers are planning to launch a mobile payment service on Monday, one that will allow their customers to send, request and receive money to each other via their mobile phones.
The planned Saturday launch of space shuttle Endeavour, set to carry seven astronauts, including Canadian Julie Payette, has been postponed because of a hydrogen leak.
FRIDAY 12. JUNE 2009
Researchers have found how a type of nanoparticle being developed for medicine can cause lung damage, and they are zeroing in on a way to counteract the process.
Populations of caribou and reindeer, which northern peoples have long relied on, have fallen drastically worldwide over the past three decades, a Canadian study has found.
Canadian researchers won't have to pull out of an international genome project they were leading, thanks to a funding injection from the Ontario government.
NASA officials have given the green light for seven astronauts including Canadian Julie Payette to take off on the space shuttle Endeavour on Saturday morning.
Canada may not be getting out of isotope production entirely, as a number of scientific and medical facilities across the country begin turning to an older technology, cyclotrons, to produce a different class of isotope than those created in nuclear reactors.
The McMaster University Medical Centre will step in on Friday in an attempt to help alleviate the shortage of medical isotopes.
Officials in charge of Ontario's Chalk River nuclear reactor say they are no closer to knowing when the reactor will be back on line and producing medical isotopes again.
THURSDAY 11. JUNE 2009
When an aging mouse's lovely brown fur turns grey, she can now officially blame stress - at least, the kind of stress that damages DNA, Japanese researchers have confirmed.