Canadair water-bomber builder feels heat of demand as wildfires rage around the world

As Canada, the United States and Europe grapple with another brutal wildfire season, pressure is building on the manufacturer of the Canadair "Super Scooper" water bombers to increase production, and on the federal government to bulk order the planes.
Instead of making hydrogen, this Canadian company is drilling for it

A Saskatchewan company is drilling for hydrogen to prove it can be extracted from the ground at a commercial scale. Max Power says that could lead to greener, cheaper hydrogen for decarbonizing industry and transportation. Here's what you need to know about the development of natural hydrogen.
65 years after the Berlin Wall was built, Germany’s east-west scars help feed a rising far-right party

Decades after the Berlin Wall fell, observers see deep-seated regional grievances and feelings of second-class citizenship driving a surge for the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
Five years after Kabul fell, the reckoning over Afghanistan is far from over

The Taliban victory not only displaced hundreds of thousands of Afghans, the reimposition of their strict, authoritarian fundamentalist regime has featured the systematic erasure of women from public life, the suppression of free media and dissent and the enforcement of rigid moral codes through a dedicated ministry.
How AI grief bots are allowing people to commune with the dead

It may seem like something ripped directly from an episode of Black Mirror, but generative AI and large language models are now being used to conjure up the dead, using the massive digital footprints many of us leave behind when we die.
在西非職場,我重新理解「效率」:談正事前的聊天也是工作的一部分
How a $40 parking ticket became a fight for accessibility in Quebec

When Charlie Rousseau visited her hometown of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., for a festival in June, she noticed there were old-style parking meters that required users to slip change into a slot to pay. The problem is, Rousseau can't easily hold coins, let alone reach the slot to pay.
Tree planting started as a summer job, but it also taught me what it means to be Canadian

Jackson Bonn reflects on his many seasons of work in the Canadian bush and why he can't step away from this back-breaking work.
