NEUDOSE will help figure out how much radiation astronauts are exposed to Next week, McMaster University’s first satellite that will go into space will be part of a SpaceX shuttle launch in Florida. Over the course of eight years, more than 150 Hamilton University students, staff, and alumni worked on the NEUDOSE project. The satellite…
The claim says that six abusers were moved from a notorious orphanage in St. John’s to schools in the Vancouver area A lawsuit alleging nearly 40 years of systemic abuse at two Catholic schools in B.C. has been approved by the courts as a class action. Lawyers say this could make it easier for as…
Experts say that climate change will only make potholes worse People in Ottawa are starting to see signs of spring after a snowy winter and cold weather that kept the Rideau Canal Skateway closed for the first time ever. Rising temperatures can also cause roads to crumble and look like the moon’s surface. It feels…
Since the big floods of 2017, a task force has been keeping an eye on the water levels every year A City of Ottawa task force is keeping an eye on water levels in preparation for the spring thaw. They say that major flooding isn’t expected right away, but that could change in the coming…
Scientists say that it’s not unusual for icicles to get very big when it’s cold Two hikers in Metro Vancouver found what they think is an 8-foot-tall icicle last week when they were hiking on the Stawamus Chief Trail in Squamish. Benjamin Munnalall and Mitchell Vander Ploeg said that while hiking on the trail on…
The province’s child intervention services were being used on the child A five-year-old boy from a First Nation in northern Alberta was killed by his family’s dogs on Sunday. The people of the First Nation are sad about this. Constable Kelsey Davidge said Thursday that the child died Sunday after his family’s dogs attacked him…
The fire department says neither cleaner was hurt, but they had to be lowered by rope Two window cleaners were stuck halfway up the angular Deloitte building at the corner of West Georgia and Homer streets in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Thursday afternoon. Matthew Trudeau, a spokesman for Vancouver Fire and Rescue, said that the…
On Thursday morning, there was a leak at Fearmans Pork Inc., but the fire chief says no one was hurt badly The fire chief of Burlington, Ontario, says that 20 workers at a slaughterhouse were taken to the hospital as a precaution after an ammonia leak. Karen Roche told CBC Hamilton that the plant, which…
Three years after COVID stopped the original program, O-Buskers would begin in the late spring The city of Ottawa wants to bring more life to its LRT stations by bringing back a busking program that was put on hold three years ago because of the pandemic. At the beginning of 2020, the city asked buskers…
Two reports were made less than a day apart near Cornwall, Ontario The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say that in the past 24 hours, two people near Cornwall made the same unsettling discovery: a tracking device had been put on their cars without their knowledge. OPP Insp. Marc Hemmerick of the Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry…