If this was January, temperatures below -20°C would be barrelling towards Ontario and Quebec. Instead, it’s early October, but it’ll still create a surprisingly strong temperature plunge this long weekend. Visit our Complete Guide to Fall 2023 for an in-depth look at the Fall Forecast, tips to plan for it …
Read More »Film events in the metro
While the cinemas are still struggling to bring back their audiences to the big screen, the film industry has never been more alive. Film events have been happening around the metro and in the regions. Great news abound, with Filipino films winning in different international film festivals and breaking boundaries. …
Read More »‘The goddess has arrived’
The Tuviera-owned artist management group, Triple A, was bubbling with excitement as primetime drama star Carla Abellana officially became a part of their prestigious roster during an elegant dinner party at Sampaguita Gardens. Triple A, short for All Access to Artists, Inc., went all out to roll out the red …
Read More »David Common will be the new host of CBC Radio’s Metro Morning
“It’s so exciting to go from a global adventure to a local one, with the opportunity to meet and hear from people in all corners of this giant city about your lives, families and struggles,” Common told CBC Toronto ahead of his Oct. 16 start. Veteran journalist and foreign correspondent …
Read More »Ontario apartment buildings bring investors double-digit returns. Some tenants say they’re paying the price
A real estate investment company that’s bought up dozens of older apartment buildings in recent years has become “a great Canadian growth story” by seizing on the unaffordable housing market, says one of its executives. A group of Hamilton tenants say they’re the ones paying the price. Equiton owns a …
Read More »B.C. RCMP to hold regimental funeral Wednesday for officer killed in Coquitlam
The funeral is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. PT at the Langley Events Centre. It will include a procession and a memorial service concluding with a final salute. Const. Rick O’Brien was shot dead while executing a drug-related search warrant at a home. The B.C. RCMP are holding …
Read More »Microsoft CEO hits out at Google
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella told a US court on Monday that Google’s dominance of the search engine market made it very hard for rivals to emerge, hitting out sharply at the business practices of his company’s archrival. Nadella spoke to a courtroom in Washington, D.C., …
Read More »Three scientists share Nobel Prize in Physics for work in electron dynamics
Scientists Pierre Agostini of Ohio State University, Ferenc Krausz of Munich University and Anne L’Huilleir of Lund University in Sweden were honoured with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” The Nobel prizes will …
Read More »Ancient buildings included ash, beer and urine. Why do they stand the test of time?
Scientists’ reverse-engineering of ancient buildings has revealed some impressive properties, like the ability to get stronger over time and ‘heal’ cracks when they form. Modern concrete has strength but not endurance. Scientists are learning what Maya and Rome got right. In the quest to build better for the future, some …
Read More »A fruitful move: Opening the world market to our farmers
Our fruits are known the world over — we have the sweetest mangoes, the juiciest pineapples, and the plumpest pomelos. Now, we proudly add avocados to that list as an initial shipment of 3,040 boxes of fresh Hass avocados embarked on a journey from our shores to South Korea last …
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