Music biz glamour, eerie Canadian dreams and a digital caution await your streaming
Six fresh things are now on tap for your viewing pleasure to help ease your COVID-19 blues.
Technology
4,000% increase in ransomware emails during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many people to work from home. But are you keeping yourself and your work cybersecure?
Ziya Tong and The Reality Bubble
Science journalist and award-winning author Ziya Tong takes her book, The Reality Bubble, to England
Top earners and pop drinkers hit in B.C. budget that includes record capital spending
Top income earners and pop drinkers were hit with new taxes in Tuesday's, February 18, 2020, B.C. budget, which continues the government's focus on capital spending for schools, hospitals and transit.
Ford, Moe and Higgs look to nuclear to fight climate change
Three of Canada's premiers will announce on Sunday, December 1, 2019, a plan to fight climate change by working together on small nuclear reactors, a company that's developing the technology said on Saturday, November 30, 2019.
Climate change threatens crops, water for billions around globe: study
Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world's poorest people are at risk.
Canadian man's sculpture of refugees unveiled by Pope Francis in Vatican City
A Canadian artist's sculpture has been unveiled in St. Peter's Square by Pope Francis as part of a Mass for the World Day for Migrants and Refugees.
New technology moves oilsands bitumen in shipping container to West Coast
Melius Energy says it has successfully tested a new technology that allows oilsands bitumen to be shipped as a semi-solid product in six-metre-long shipping containers.
Military looks to guard satellites from 'natural and artificial threats'
Canadian satellites need to be protected from "natural and artificial threats" in space, says the federal government in a call for new ideas and technology to help.
Want to save the planet? Watch less Netflix (and porn)
The energy demands of online video cause as much pollution as all of Spain, according to a new report.
Tradition versus technology: Northerners debate use of drones in caribou hunting
Tradition and technology are clashing on the tundra where Indigenous groups are debating the use of drones to hunt caribou.
Architect of Paris Agreement says we need to ‘go exponential’
Governments that fail to provide responses to the global climate crisis are doing so "at their own peril," former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said during a visit to Toronto.
Federal government funds millions to help B.C. police spot drugged driving
The federal government is boosting funding to help British Columbia police departments recognize drug-impaired drivers and buy roadside testing devices, as many forces remain wary of the technology.
Ontario researchers invent way to store vaccines at higher temperatures
Ontario researchers say they've come up with a way to store vaccines at higher temperatures for weeks at a time.
An explainer on the Ontario government's move to review highway speed limits
Ontario's government plans to launch a review of speed limits on provincial highways, with the transportation minister musing that some of those roads can safely handle traffic at 120 kilometres per hour.