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Canada is working to launch hundreds of new communication satellites that Prime Minister Mark Carney and experts say will be “fundamental” to sovereign defence capabilities and autonomy from the United States. During a speech to Australia’s parliament on Thursday, Carney highlighted a soon-to-launch, made-in-Canada low earth orbit (LEO) satellite network that could soon compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink in providing far-reaching internet services.That in turn will help with everything from military operations to natural disaster responses, experts say — particularly in the Arctic.“Satellite communications are now a fundamental requirement for security and strategic autonomy,” Carney said Thursday.“A Canadian-based constellation of LEO…
When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete.It hasn’t worked out that way. Automakers have struggled to bring purely electric two-seaters to market. The ones that managed to emerge have been flatly rejected by consumers. Porsche has walked back plans for an all-electric lineup of Boxster and Cayman models, seemingly spooked by technical hurdles and tepid response from its fanatical customers. Lamborghini last week scrapped plans for its first all-electric model, with the CEO saying the brand’s customers have almost “zero interest” in…
The mother of a 12-year-old girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., last month says her daughter’s breathing tube has been removed as doctors check to see whether she can breathe on her own. A post on the Facebook account belonging to Cia Edmonds, mother of Maya Gebala, says the removal was a “terrifying experience” and she held her daughter’s hand as the girl winced.But Edmonds writes in the post on Friday that her daughter was “doing great” and “looking more like her beautiful self.” Edmonds and Gebala’s father, David Gebala, have said their daughter was…
More than four years after her son’s death, Tracey Savage says the wait for justice continues. On Sept. 5, 2021, a young man was found critically injured on a field at Penticton Secondary School. He later died in hospital.Savage says the days before her son was identified were agonizing.“Each day he didn’t come home, you knew that the chances are it was your son.”Thirteen days later, the victim was identified as 22-year-old Taig Savage.In 2024, four people were charged with second-degree murder in connection with his death. Three of the accused were youths at the time of the alleged offence…
Nova Scotians are continuing to make their voices heard when it comes to frustrations over the provincial budget. People filled both the gallery and the overflow area at Province House on Friday, wearing all-black to stand in solidarity with both Black and Indigenous communities.The protest comes as many programs and community grants that benefit those communities are impacted by cuts in the provincial budget.Kay Macdonald, the program director at The Youth Project, told reporters, “the math ain’t mathing.”“People fought really hard for these programs to exist, particularly in an African Nova Scotian context. I know my community fought really hard…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A delegation from the Sunshine Coast travelled to Vancouver on Friday to put more pressure on the federal government to ease its restrictions on temporary foreign workers. Sunshine Coast mayors and residents met with Immigration Minister Lena Diab, urging the federal government to open up more spaces as they say that local businesses will suffer during peak tourist season and their hospital will face serious staff shortages.“Our main focus today was to emphasize the urgency,” District of Sechelt Mayor John Henderson said.“We stand to lose 300 temporary foreign workers and their families…
On Valentine’s Day, I brought you a story that’s since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation gamepad, discovered an entire network of 7,000 remote-control DJI robots ready to let him peek into other people’s homes.To be clear, DJI had already begun addressing some of the related vulnerabilities before the man, Sammy Azdoufal, showed The Verge just how much he could access. But it wasn’t clear whether DJI would pay him for his discovery, particularly after how it treated security researcher Kevin Finisterre back in 2017 —…
An Edmonton-area family has finally been reunited with their dog. The pup got spooked months ago, and the family thought they might never see her again. Chilli has been a huge part of Jody Toope’s family for the past three years, but the Calmar family recently went nearly three months without her.“Chilli is wonderful, she steals everybody’s heart,” said Jody Toope, Chilli’s owner.The six-year-old German Shepherd-cross got spooked when she was out with one of her owners in Brazeau County near Drayton Valley, southwest of Edmonton, in December and ran off into the woods.“She didn’t come back, he stayed out…
Amelia Island, Florida, March 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Broad Arrow Auctions, driven by Hagerty (NYSE: HGTY), set new standards for some of the collector car market’s most sought-after supercars during the first evening of its two-day 2026 Amelia Concours Auction. Held at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, the auction room was packed as cars sold throughout the evening achieved strong prices, with the Private Collection of Unobtanium Supercars saved for the final, eagerly awaited lots. The 352-mile, original-owner, well-optioned 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder opened the group with immediate interest, selling for a final $2,975,000 to set a new auction world…
Kelowna, B.C., is still in the off-season but this year the tourism season is expected to get an earlier start. “We think we’re in for a very, very good and early tourism season,” said Ellen Walker-Matthews, president and CEO of the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA).The city is hosting several major events this spring and summer starting with the Memorial Cup in May.That will be followed by the CFL’s Touchdown Kelowna games in June and the B.C. Summer Games in July.But TOTA officials also say the 2026 FIFA World Cup, taking place in Vancouver starting June 11, will likely also…