Canada’s House of Commons will reconvene today for virtual session on Zoom, a videoconferencing platform described by security researchers as a “privacy disaster.” Zoom’s popularity has skyrocketed in recent weeks as Canadians took to online platforms to connect with friends and family while practising physical distancing to limit the spread of COVID-19. But the transition hasn’t been…
Some of Canada’s northernmost MPs are hoping the virtual House of Commons sessions starting Tuesday can lead to more discussions about broadband connectivity in non-urban areas. Northwest Territories Liberal MP Michael McLeod is working from a laptop at his home in Fort Providence, N.W.T. He said he has some difficulties connecting to Zoom conference calls,…
The top of the world is turning upside down, says the first overall assessment of Canada’s Arctic Ocean. The work of dozens of federal scientists and Inuit observers, it describes a vast ecosystem in unprecedented flux: from ocean currents to the habits and types of animals that swim in it. The Arctic Ocean, where climate…
In the quiet of the University of Saskatchewan’s shuttered campus, there is one constant beacon of light and hope. Dr. Volker Gerdts and his team of researchers are working in shifts around the clock to find a vaccine for the novel coronavirus — and feeling the pressure to move even faster. “There is a real sense…
As we face the threat of a fast-moving, deadly virus that has spread around the globe, many questions are arising that scientists are having difficulty answering because science takes time and the pandemic is moving so rapidly. Many questions have arisen that scientists and public health officials are struggling to answer: How contagious is the virus?…
In 2008, NASA announced that a new exoplanet was found orbiting a star 25 light-years away. But now it seems to have vanished. It turns out that it likely wasn’t a planet at all. The initial observation of the potential exoplanet, named Fomalhaut b, was made in 2004 using the Hubble Space Telescope, with follow-up observations…
