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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 1, 2024 7:24 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Trains aren’t the only place Canada lags on high-speed rail, as the effort to bring in a faster payment system, known as the Real-Time Rail, is years behind …

Canadian rural internet provider Xplore Inc. plans to offer faster satellite internet to those in remote locations this fall following the launch of the Jupiter 3 satellite into space. The New Brunswick-based telecommunications company said the technology will provide a homegrown alternative to broadband internet service offered to rural Canadians …

Wednesday marks World Water Day, a day raising awareness of the more than 2 billion people around the world living without access to safe water, including many First Nations communities in Canada. The federal government says 138 long-term drinking water advisories have been lifted since November 2015, although some short-term …

In the last decade, the number of Calgarians who rent their homes has grown much faster than the number of people who own them, according to new census data. Since 2011, the number of renters in the city has grown 37.3 per cent, while the number of homeowners has grown by …

This column is an opinion piece by Yamaan Alsumadi, a nursing student in Thunder Bay, Ont. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ. I’m a fourth-year nursing student studying at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., and I’m in a classroom filled with people who are …

Local politicians across British Columbia urged the provincial government on Monday to start moving on reforms to policing after consultations that began more than two years ago but have yet to yield any concrete action. “I believe the provincial government has failed us,” said Kamloops Coun. Mike O’Reilly at an event …

A new study finds ambulance use in Ontario increased significantly in the years leading up to the pandemic, outpacing the growth in both population and hospital emergency room visits by other means.  The study was led by researchers at Hamilton’s McMaster University and it looked at the yearly numbers of patients transported by …

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says his government is preparing to reinstate a program that would help to speed up the process of turning newcomers in Canada under temporary permits into permanent residents. “We are looking right now at the best path forward to create a permanent pathway for temporary residents,” he told CBC’s …

Solana isn’t widely known yet outside of the crypto community. But insiders think the blockchain platform is interesting for a wide variety of reasons, beginning with its amiable founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, who spent more than a dozen years as an engineer working on wireless protocols at Qualcomm and who says …

When NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its third flight in April, its ground team met the last of the three objectives needed to call the technology demo project a success. That’s why for its fourth test flight, the Ingenuity team wants to push the machine’s performance envelope on Mars by flying …