Monthly Archives: October 2025

After investigating a complaint from a B.C. customer that their Amazon order never arrived, Consumer Protection B.C. has ordered the e-commerce giant to pay close to $20,000 in fines, legal fees and a $511.25 refund to the customer.

The Nova Scotia government has granted a lease for more than 80 hectares of land and water on the province’s Eastern Shore to a group that wants to create North America’s first whale sanctuary.

A cryptocurrency exchange has been slapped with a fine of almost $177 million — the largest-ever penalty by Canada’s financial intelligence agency — for infractions including failing to flag more than 1,000 transactions with suspected links to criminal activity.

In 2007, a massive landslide crashed into B.C.’s Lake Chehalis, triggering a tsunami that surged 38 metres up the shore — one of the most dramatic inland waves ever recorded. CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe looks into how scientists were able to … Continue reading →

“Given the seriousness of the injury, it will be important to monitor the animal’s healing progress,” a DFO spokesperson said.

There’s a toad invasion underfoot. No, really.  According to  a new study  that analyzed the DNA of 124 species of toads, you can now find them on six of seven continents with a colony most-recently spreading fast in East Africa.

A U.S. company is proposing to ‘sell sunlight after dark,’ saying it could help power solar farms and provide access to light in emergency situations. Astronomers are not only concerned about what this will do to the night sky, but … Continue reading →

OpenAI said Tuesday it is introducing its own web browser, Atlas, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions.

Canada’s annual inflation rate rose 2.4 per cent in September, as gas and travel tour prices fell at a slower pace and grocery prices rose, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.

The bodies of 142 migratory birds, the majority of them snow geese, were found last week in a rural area south of Saskatoon near Patience Lake, Sask. Conservation officers are requesting the public’s help to identify the perpetrators.