Aviation expert Robert Kokonis tells The National’s Ian Hanomansing how U.S. air traffic controller shortages are leading to radar blackouts and radio silence in the skies. News Source link

Viewed from above, 89 wind turbines form a striking hexagon of white pinpoints against dark blue water. What makes Windpark Fryslân unusual isn’t just its shape, but the fact that the offshore wind farm isn’t far out in the ocean. It’s just six kilometres from a shore dotted with villages in …

Former U.S. president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday. Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms, and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone. “While this represents …

Until last week, fishmonger Yvon Jalbert had never seen an orange lobster in his 40-year career.  “It’s pretty rare. We’ve had yellow, we’ve had blue, but never orange,” said Jalbert, director of the fish market at Les Pêcheries Gaspésiennes de Rivière-au-Renard in Gaspé, Que. To the untrained eye, the crustacean caught in …

Hello, royal watchers. This is your regular dose of royal news and analysis. Reading this online? Sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox. It’s a quick trip to a place he’s been 19 times before. In a few days, King Charles will arrive in Canada. As the country’s head of …

This First Person article is the experience of Jessyka Hagen, who lives in Airdrie, Alta. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. I stared at Jordan and wondered how I had ever been in love with him. It was a chilly winter night and we …

Nahil Sadaqa loves soccer — and one of his favourite teams helps him connect with his Palestinian identity. This club plays in Palestinian colours, its fans wave Palestinian flags, its sponsors include the Bank of Palestine and its jerseys have images of the keffiyeh and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. But the team isn’t …

Two MPPs have put forward the idea of creating a “foodbelt” in Ontario to protect farmland and help tariff-proof the agricultural sector in the province. The idea proposed by Guelph MPP and Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner and independent MPP Bobbi Ann Brady, who represents Haldimand-Norfolk, this week …

Centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and nationalist Karol Nawrocki will compete in a second round of the presidential election in Poland on June 1, nearly complete voting results from the electoral commission showed early on Monday. The commission published data from 99.9 per cent of voting districts by provinces at  at 2:27 …

President Donald Trump hopes separate phone calls Monday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make progress toward a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. Trump expressed his hopes for a “productive day” Monday — and a ceasefire — in a social media post over the …