Hayley Wickenheiser Promoted to Maple Leafs Assistant General Manager
The Toronto Maple Leafs have officially promoted Hayley Wickenheiser, Ryan Hardy and Darryl Metcalf to assistant general manager. The team also hired Curtis Sanford as a goaltending coach. Wickenhieser is a four-time Olympic gold medalist with the Canadian women’s hockey team. She joined the Leafs as an assistant director of player development in 2018 and […]
China Experiencing Record Rain and Heat
China is under one of the worst heatwaves in decades while rainfall reached record highs in June. Extreme heat has also been battering Japan, and volatile weather is causing trouble for other parts of the world as well. Scientists say all these events are clinked to climate change and they expect even more warming this […]
NASA Satellite Breaks Through Orbit, Heads to Moon
A satellite the size of a microwave successfully exited Earth’s orbit on Monday and is headed to the moon. This is the most recent step in NASA;’s plan to land humans on the lunar surface again. The Capstone satellite was launched six days ago from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula by the company Rocket Lab in […]
Researchers Find Very Little Growth of White Sharks in Canadian Waters
According to a new study, the population of the endangered great white shark in Canadian waters remains stable but is not increasing. This runs counter to the fears that ocean predators are increasingly prowling the northwest Atlantic region. Last August a woman was attacked by a shark in the waters off Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton […]
Finland & Sweden Take Steps Toward NATO Membership
So far, 30 NATO allies have signed of on accession protocols, but it could still take months before the countries are full members. The 30 nations signed off on the countries on Tuesday. The move further pushes Russia into strategic isolation amid their invasion into Ukraine in February. Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said “this […]
New Species Identified as World’s Largest Waterlily
In London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, an enormous waterlily has been discovered and belongs to an entirely new species. The plant has spent 177 years in the garden’s herbarium and is known as the Victoria boliviana. It has leaves growing to nearly 10 feet wide in the wild, according to a press release from the gardens […]
Canadian Airlines Top Global List of Delays Over Weekend
Over the July long weekend, Canadian airlines and airports claimed the top spots in flight delays over more than nearly any other country around the globe. On Saturday and Sunday, Air Canada ranked number 1 in delays that affected 700-plus trips in total. According to tracking service FlightAware, it accounted for about two-thirds of its […]
15 Canadian Novels to Read in July
As the new month begins, here are some highly anticipated Canadian books ready to make their debut. Kathy Reichs returns with her 21st novel in the bestselling mystery books featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. In this book, Tempe is caught up in a case involving a box with a human eyeball and a series of […]
Massive Tree Found Almost as Wide as A Boeing 747 Airplane Cabin
Biologists have discovered a behemoth tree in North Vancouver that is almost the same width as a Boeing 747 airplane cabin. Expert biologists said the western red cedar found in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park is most likely 1,000 to 2,000 years old. Ian Thomas measured the tree in North Vancouver, B.C. to be somewhere between […]
The North Atlantic Right Whale is Endangered
The endangered North Atlantic right whale is facing changes to its migration patterns and researchers are hoping their adaptability is key to their survival. A new study released by the New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts found the whales are spending more time in Cape Cod Bay before going North. With only a few hundred […]