The road of the future is likely to become the brain and nerve center of an autonomous-driving revolution. The road to China’s autonomous-driving future is paved with solar panels, mapping sensors and electric-battery rechargers as the nation tests an “intelligent highway” that could speed the transformation of the global transportation […]
An unthinkable tragedy struck Humboldt when a bus crash killed 16 members of the Broncos junior hockey team. As the small city recovers, it doesn’t want to be defined by the crash; it wants to be defined by how its heartbroken community responds. The night before the accident, Leroy and […]
WEST POINT, N.Y. — When Cadet Ross Poulin vies against hundreds of cadets from around the world Friday and Saturday during the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition here, the memory of one special cadet who is not competing will help push him through the grueling events. Poulin and then-Cadet Tom Surdyke […]
Tyler Bieber, who was a broadcaster for the Humboldt Broncos, will be the first of the Humboldt bus crash victims to be laid to rest Thursday. He was 29. His funeral is being held Thursday at Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, where the Broncos played their home games. Bieber […]
Researchers are extracting vanadium from the oilsands and using it to build batteries Originally from South Africa, JT Steenkamp doesn’t usually enjoy brisk Canadian winter weather, but this year is different for the engineer who is testing out a new type of battery at Shell Canada’s research centre in Calgary. […]
The song, Big League, is four-and-a-half minutes long, and told through the voice of an anguished hockey parent from an unidentified northern town TORONTO – In 1988, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, a well-travelled Canadian rock band with a handful of hits already on the air, released an album featuring […]
Some businesses are staying private. Others are getting bigger. That’s not necessarily a problem. The people who supervise the U.S. stock market are grappling with what they see as a troubling trend: One of the great innovations of Western capitalism — the public company — appears to be losing ground. […]
THE planet has rarely been so peaceful. Even with terrible fighting in such places as Congo, Syria and Yemen, wars between and within countries are becoming less common and less deadly. But a dark menace looms. Some of the developing world’s cities threaten to be engulfed by murder. Of the […]
Kyle Turris is an NHLer because of his dog. Well, maybe not exactly, but while growing up his golden retriever deserves at least some of the credit for turning Turris into a 12-year NHL veteran. His ball-obsessed dog would chase a young Turris around their Burnaby backyard, the future hockey […]
Canada is taking the recent nerve agent attack in the U.K. seriously. But what about Arctic sovereignty? Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent boast of possessing an arsenal of undetectable nuclear weapons has not really had material effect on geo-political relations — yet. North American and European preoccupation of late has […]