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Monthly Archives: July 2025
B.C. billionaire hosts job fair in Toronto amid bid for Hudson’s Bay leases
The British Columbia billionaire seeking to acquire dozens of former Hudson’s Bay leases held a job fair in Toronto this weekend, despite not yet leasing the retail spaces in the city.
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U.S. commerce secretary dismisses question that free trade with Canada is dead
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed the question of whether U.S. free trade with Canada is dead, calling the notion “silly” because a substantial amount of Canadian goods enter the U.S. tariff-free under the North American free trade deal. But … Continue reading
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GPS ear tags help track bison at Sask.’s Buffalo Pound Provincial Park
Buffalo Pound Provincial Park is believed to be the first provincial park in Saskatchewan using GPS ear tags to track the location of bison.
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Move over, Jurassic Park. Manitoba was home to newly discovered 390-million-year-old extinct fish
A research team from the University of Manitoba has discovered a new genus of placoderm fish, named Elmosteus lundarensis, one of the earliest fish to develop bones, a jaw and teeth.
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Ottawa weighs plans on AI, copyright as OpenAI fights Ontario court jurisdiction
Canada’s artificial intelligence minister is keeping a close watch on court cases in Canada and the U.S. to determine next steps for Ottawa’s regulatory approach to AI.
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Manitoba researchers part of team working to unravel mystery of largest black hole merger ever detected
A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first documented case of two massive black holes merging — happily, billions of light years from Earth.
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‘Shaken to our core’: Small businesses struggle with high cost of going green
If Canada wants to be net-zero by 2050, more than a million small businesses will have to make the green transition. And while some business owners are already trying their best to navigate a more eco-friendly path, others say it’s … Continue reading
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‘Surprised and disappointed’: Diamond mine layoffs reverberate across N.W.T.
While Indigenous leaders and workers absorb the shock of this week’s layoffs, industry observers say the scaling back of production at Ekati is a reflection of challenges facing the diamond industry.
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Trump signs law to create regulatory regime for stablecoins, a huge win for crypto backers
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a law to create a regulatory regime for U.S.-dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies known as stablecoins, a milestone that could pave the way for the digital assets to become an everyday way to make payments and … Continue reading
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Slow and steady progress in decade-long project to save B.C.’s only native turtle
The 10-year project began in 2019, although the zoo was releasing turtles before that and has freed around 3,000 of them over the past decade.
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