Feds announce $50M toward Airport Trail expansion project in Calgary
Money will go toward extending route eastward to link up with Metis Trail and Stoney Trail he federal government will contribute $50 million toward the expansion of Airport Trail, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday in Calgary. The project will see a new segment of road built between 36th Street and 60th Street N.E., with […]
She lost her legs. Now she’s teaching others to fly
Performer Erin Ball has started a circus program for others with disabilities at her Kingston, Ont., school When Erin Ball lost her lower legs to frostbite after becoming lost in the woods for nearly a week in 2014, it looked like her circus career was over. Instead, the double-amputee was able to reignite her passion […]
Yukon’s Jack Amos wins bronze at national championships
‘I surprised myself,’ said the 17-year-old track star from Dawson City Dawson City’s Jack Amos says he’s aching a bit, after his medal-winning performance on Thursday at the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Ottawa. Mostly, though, he’s feeling pretty good about his bronze medal win in the 5,000 metre (under-20) race. Amos — who […]
‘New beginning for an old piece of history’: Moreton’s Harbour museum reopens
Cheryl Dearing says the museum will draw interest to the community When Cheryl Dearing moved back to her hometown of Moreton’s Harbour two years ago, she couldn’t believe the town’s museum she went to as a child was closed. “Driving by the museum every day and seeing it closed was just breaking my heart,” she […]
MIT researchers automate drug design with machine learning
Developing and improving medications is typically a long and very involved process. Chemists build and tweak molecules, sometimes aiming to create a new treatment for a specific disease or symptom, other times working to improve a drug that already exists. But it takes a lot of time and a lot of expert knowledge, and attempts […]
NASA put Kepler to sleep to preserve its remaining fuel
NASA announced today that the Kepler spacecraft, which has been searching for distant Earth-like planets near Sun-like stars, is running very low on fuel. So much so, that it has decided to put Kepler in a sleep mode to preserve fuel over the next few weeks. Back in March, the agency warned that this could […]
HIV vaccine delivers promising results in human tests
A Harvard-led team of scientists has made important progress in the quest to prevent HIV infections. They’ve had early success testing a multi-strain vaccine in humans — everyone who received the drug produced at least some kind of anti-HIV immune response, with at least 80 percent producing more advanced responses. The researchers also found that […]
DJI’s next Mavic drone might have 360-degree obstacle awareness
Now that DJI has made its semi-pro drone technology more accessible through the Mavic Air, what’s it going to do for operators who prefer the Mavic Pro line? Check off a few of their bigger wish list items, apparently. DroneDJ has obtained a photo of what looks like a sequel to the Mavic Pro, […]
4 Rock-Solid Cheap Dividend Stocks with P/Es Under 15
The S&P 500 has surged more than 300% since the depths of the financial crisis in March 2009. But today, rising interest rates and escalating trade tensions are causing many investors to wonder if the aging bull market has finally run out of room to run. The S&P 500 isn’t cheap at 24 times earnings, […]
Is Alibaba’s Cloud Business Really Bigger Than IBM’s?
Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) is widely known as China’s top e-commerce company, but it’s also the country’s top cloud services provider. Over the past few years, it expanded its cloud business internationally, and it currently serves multinational companies like Nestle, SAP, Philips, and KPMG. That’s why it wasn’t surprising when Synergy Research recently reported that Alibaba was […]