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A Manitoba researcher was part of a historic research team that uncovered the oldest ice core ever retrieved. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, a researcher from the University of Manitoba, was part of a team that successfully drilled into an ice core 2,800 metres in length, and uncovered the oldest ice core ever retrieved – more than 1.2 million years old. She said the core will give an insight into past climate patterns. “We have small, trapped air bubbles in the ice that was formed when the snow fell on the surface and was compressed to ice,” said Dahl-Jensen.…

The green flag will fly on the Rideau Canal Skateway on Saturday, the earliest opening of the world’s largest skating rink since December 2018. The National Capital Commission (NCC) announced a 3.6-kilometre section of the Rideau Canal Skateway, between Somerset Street and Bank Street, will open at 8 a.m. Saturday. The cold temperatures to start 2025 have allowed NCC crews to prepare the skateway to open for its 55th season. “After a mild start, winter kicked into high gear over the last week. This provided NCC teams optimal conditions to prepare the ice surface,” the NCC said in a statement.…

A 28-year-old Toronto man accused of killing his parents and trying to kill his brother has been found responsible. The verdict in the judge-alone trial for Alpha Henry was delivered in a Toronto courtroom Thursday afternoon. Alpha has been on trial for two counts of second-degree murder relating to the fatal 2022 stabbing of his parents, Veronica and Colin Henry, and one count of attempted murder relating to his younger brother, Daniel Kwame Henry.Superior Court Justice Joan Barrett rejected Alpha’s versions of events that his brother was the one responsible, saying Thursday she found Alpha responsible for the unlawful act…

VICTORIA, Seychelles, Jan. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget Wallet, a leading Web3 non-custodial wallet, has launched new features to enhance user interaction with the growing AI Agent ecosystem. These include a token list, instant swaps, a DApp zone, and exclusive airdrop campaigns, enabling seamless trading, earning, and interaction with AI Agent tokens. Bitget Wallet is also the first to support limit orders on Base and Solana chains, offering tools for automated trades, early-stage token discovery, and access to emerging projects. With the newly launched AI Agent token list, Bitget Wallet users can track and trade popular AI Agent tokens…

Honda released one of the more interesting concepts at last year’s CES with two Honda Zero prototypes: the Saloon and the Space-Hub. It promised to come back in a year with something a little closer to production. But rather than temper those space-age design elements, Honda leaned into them. Way in. The Honda 0 Saloon and Honda 0 SUV retain a lot of what made the concepts so weird and different — and not necessarily in an off-putting way. But it’s definitely not the electric CR-V that customers have been begging the company to make for years. In fact, Honda seems…

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A draft energy deal with Quebec heralded as a game-changer for indebted Newfoundland and Labrador is heading for a vote Thursday night at the legislature in St. John’s, N.L. The Liberal government opened the House of Assembly on Monday for four days of debate about the memorandum of understanding unveiled Dec. 12 between Hydro-Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro. The agreement promises about $227 billion in revenue to the Newfoundland and Labrador treasury, much of it coming from the new rates Hydro-Quebec will pay for power from the Churchill Falls plant in Labrador. …

OTTAWA – Pierre Poilievre returned to Ottawa on Thursday after the holidays with a familiar demand for Justin Trudeau: call a carbon-tax election. Neither Trudeau’s announcement that he plans to resign as Liberal leader nor U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric about using “economic force” to take over Canada seem to have swayed the Tory leader, who said the ballot-box question — and even his opponent — remain the same. “It’s ironic, we have an American president who’s threatening tariffs on Canada and we have a Canadian government that is threatening even more devastating tariffs on Canada…

The nursing shortage across Saskatchewan has left workers feeling burnt out and patients frustrated with the lack of care available to them. As the provincial government attempts to fill gaps in medical facilities across the province, it comes with a hefty bill.Tracy Zambory, the president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN), said in the first two quarters of 2024 there were roughly 300 vacant medical jobs in the province and the number is growing.She said in 2023, there were 253 full-time equivalents that needed to be filled.One of the solutions the province has been trying is to introduce more…

Apple acknowledged issues with the reliability of the iPhone’s built-in alarm feature last April after a report by NBC’s Today morning show and said it was working on a fix, but some people are still having trouble. Android Authority points out this Reddit post by bryanlolwut in the r/iPhone subreddit from Wednesday with a picture of an iPhone with an Alarm set for 10:30, but the alarm goes off at 12:42 instead — the time displayed on an Apple Watch.Late into Thursday, many Reddit users are still commenting on the thread, saying they’re having similar issues.“My morning alarm was displaying…

A series of wildfires have torn through densely populated parts of the Los Angeles, Calif. area. Five people have been reported dead. About 130,000 have been asked to evacuate. Nearly 4,000 homes and other buildings have been destroyed after the fires charred over 100 square kilometres. Here’s what happened on Thursday: 7:30 p.m. EST: L.A. County officials mistakenly send evacuation alert Officials with Los Angeles County say an evacuation order alert for residents near the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills was mistakenly sent countywide on Thursday afternoon. Officials said in a social media post that the alert was only…