The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched by NASA in 1977, is more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth. Now, a glitch is sending corrupted data back to the ground. Voyager 1’s system that sends data home is malfunctioning, preventing the computer from operating as it should. Last November, the Voyager 1 …
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Canadians urged to avoid all travel to Israel as country braces for potential Iranian attack
The federal government is recommending that Canadians avoid all travel to Israel, stating that the country faces a “heightened risk” of an attack on its territory. Iran has vowed revenge for an airstrike that killed 2 of its generals in Syria last week. The federal government is recommending that Canadians …
Read More »Shooting blanks: Why so many Canadian defence policies fail to launch
With absolutely no exceptions, every defence policy presented by the Canadian government over the past five decades has presented a vision of the world beyond our borders going to hell in a handbasket. The wars may be different, the adversaries might change, threats might have evolved — but the language …
Read More »US helped lift global economic outlook
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Strong growth in the United States has helped to lift the outlook for the world economy, but more needs to be done to stem a slide in productivity, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday. “Global growth is marginally stronger on account of robust …
Read More »Winning bidder for multimillion-dollar Gretzky card case says he’s changed his mind
The winner of the multimillion-dollar case of 1979-1980 O-Pee-Chee hockey cards — the set that contains Wayne Gretzky’s rookie card — says he no longer wants them and is trying to find them a “better home.” Buyer says he wants to find ‘better home’ for cards, floats Wayne Gretzky, Drake …
Read More »Former U.S. ambassador gets 15-year prison sentence after decades as secret Cuban agent
Victor Manuel Rocha, a former career U.S. diplomat, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison after admitting he worked for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba. The plea agreement leaves many unanswered questions about a betrayal that stunned the U.S. foreign service. Victor Manuel Rocha once …
Read More »Alberta premier says she’s prepared to take Ottawa to court over housing deals
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s willing to go to court to block the federal government from going straight to municipalities to make deals on housing. The federal government says that approach will only slow down construction. Smith looking to require provincial oversight of federal-municipal deals. Federal officials and Alberta …
Read More »Johannes Rivoire, priest accused of sexually abusing children in Nunavut, dies
Rivoire, an Oblate priest from France, has long faced allegations he sexually abused children in Nunavut in the 1960s and 1970s. He spent more than 30 years working as a priest in the territory, mostly in Arviat and Naujaat. Johannes Rivoire was 93 when he died on Thursday. A priest …
Read More »Two of Brampton’s highest paid employees don’t even work there
Two of Brampton City Hall’s highest paid employees don’t even work there. Ontario’s recently released Sunshine List of public sector employees who make over $100,000 reveals that two former Brampton employees — one fired in 2018 and the other fired in 2022 — took home over $1.5 million combined last …
Read More »Hackers steal $14.2M from Alberta-based bank, sparking court battle with B.C. crypto firm
A brazen cyber-heist of $14.2 million has sparked a bizarre court battle between one of Canada’s largest banks and one of the country’s biggest cryptocurrency services business. Nearly three months after hackers wired millions out of Canadian Western Bank’s accounts payable system, a B.C. Supreme Court judge unfroze accounts this …
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