In the News   |   September 23, 2022

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Gilles Brassard, a University of Montreal computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the field of quantum cryptography, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics, the world’s largest science prize. In an announcement... read more

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In the News   |   September 22, 2022

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The Business Development Bank of Canada is ramping up support for women technology entrepreneurs, who despite recent breakthroughs still struggle to raise funding. On Wednesday the federal Crown corporation said it would provide $500-million in... read more

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In the News   |   September 21, 2022

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his war against Ukraine, ordering a partial mobilization of reservists and warning that his country was willing to use its nuclear arsenal if Russian territory was attacked.... read more

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In the News   |   September 20, 2022

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Indigenous-managed conservation areas are key to Canada’s pledge to designate nearly one third of its land and ocean waters for biodiversity protection by the end of this decade, according to a new report. The report... read more

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In the News   |   September 19, 2022

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Families with expired visas and cramped, precarious living arrangements are waiting for Canada – whose forces they helped before the Taliban takeover – to answer their pleas. Wahid Ibrahimi was a security guard at the... read more

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In the News   |   September 15, 2022

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For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth was a female presence in places of power. She was the head of state greeted deferentially by world leaders; 15 British prime ministers came to her office, not the other way around.... read more

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In the News   |   September 14, 2022

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a $4.6-billion package of income-tested measures aimed at helping Canadians struggling with higher costs of living, at the same time insisting that the injection of new cash into the... read more

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In the News   |   September 13, 2022

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For Captain Andriy Malakhov and his Wild Steppe special-forces unit, the mission was to distract Russian troops while their comrades retook Balakliya, a city the invaders had held since March. He explains how it worked.... read more

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In the News   |   September 12, 2022

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After a landslide victory on Saturday night, new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre began the job of pitching himself and his party to Canadians with a speech that leaned as heavily on the personal as it... read more

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In the News   |   September 9, 2022

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Expo 67 and constitutional patriation in 1982 were just some of the highlights of the Queen’s Canadian travels over the decades. From coast to coast to coast, the Queen came to know Canada well during her 70... read more

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In the News   |   September 8, 2022

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The case of Myles Sanderson, one of the men accused of killing 10 people in Saskatchewan over the weekend, has brought scrutiny to a commonly misunderstood tenet of the Canadian correctional system that’s nearly as... read more

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Articles of Interest   |   September 8, 2022

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An epic moment in interest rate history was the surge of summer, 1980. A quick recap of what was happening in the year the Bank of Canada’s benchmark rate jumped to roughly 17 per cent... read more

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In the News   |   September 6, 2022

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For high-school teacher Stacie Oliver, the past two years have given her a new perspective on how to best assess students. For a long time, she’d wrestled with the usefulness of assigning marks, researching its... read more

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In the News   |   August 31, 2022

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Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the peaceful collapse of the Soviet empire, only to see that legacy succumb to Vladimir Putin’s revanchist Russia, died Tuesday at the age of 91, after a prolonged illness. Few... read more

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