Redditor says moving to Canada was the worst decision of life. An NRI’s recent post ranting against everything in Canada has divided the Internet as the user announced the decision to come back to India after seven years. The Redditor is a permanent resident of Canada but says the plastic PR card is not worth…
Quote of the day by former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau (Photo courtesy: Yousuf Karsh) Everett George Klippert was the last person in Canada to be arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for being gay. Klippert was originally from Kindersley, Saskatchewan, and was raised in Calgary, Alberta. In 1965, he was picked up by police for…
Sisyphus: The Absurd Hero or Asymptomatic Case? An office worker wakes up to an alarm at six in the morning, sits in two hours of traffic, and spends eight hours entering data into a spreadsheet. The next day, the alarm rings at six again, and the exact same cycle repeats. This routine can continue for…
Just over three years since the biggest land-based pipeline spill in the United States in almost a decade, the company that manages the Keystone Pipeline System has reached an agreement with the U.S. government in a proposed settlement which calls for it to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty. This settlement comes after a pipeline…
Removing four ageing hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River was always going to be a delicate undertaking, but one complication came from a source that had nothing to do with fish or river ecology at all: wildfire. The dams’ reservoirs had served for decades as a reliable water source for helicopters and fire crews battling…
Business quote of the day by Paypal founder Peter Thiel A successful business always has its USP. It must have something different than others even if there are plenty of competitors in the same area. Mere imitation of something successful does not give birth to another successful product. This appears to be very simple business…
A coral reef in the southern Andaman Sea, in Southeast Asia Cavan Images An international team of scientists has mapped more than 64,000 square miles of coral reefs that can withstand severe heat stress. The findings provide a vital plan for saving marine life while the world’s oceans experience their worst bleaching crisis ever recorded.The…
Chelsie Anderson was the ideal sweet girl next door. She earned money waitressing at the Blue Ocean Seafood Restaurant in South Carolina and as a mom it provided her all the stability she needed. Her mom had experienced addiction and her dad had spent time in prison, which is why she wanted to offer her…
Manus aurita’s museum specimen. Photocredit: Narayan Koju. In 1836, a young British diplomat and naturalist named Brian Houghton Hodgson was stuck in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, far from Europe’s great museums but close to the forests and hills where strange animals still lived largely unseen. One day, he came across a creature that looked almost like…
Taranpreet Singh Sidhu. (Photo: Hamilton Police Service) A 29-year-old truck driver who immigrated to Canada from India has been identified as the victim in a homicide investigation after his body was found inside a sewage culvert in Hamilton, Ontario.The victim, Taranpreet Singh Sidhu, had moved to Canada in 2022 and had been living in Brampton…