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The modern world literally runs on electric motors. They’re used in every aspect of manufacturing, logistics, and transportation. Back in the earliest days of electric motors, when motors were still quite big and expensive, a motor’s mechanical output power would likely be distributed to individual workstations within a factory via a system of belts, pulleys,…

The winners of the ninth Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced. This is the first year the Irving Abella Award in History is presented. Michael Posner is the winner of a special achievement award for his trilogy of books on Leonard Cohen. The awards ceremony will take place on October 15 at York University.

We often hear about the dangers first responders face on the job, but in recent years, more of them are dying by suicide than in the line of duty. In other news, the San Diego City Council Monday approved spending money earmarked for park improvements on a freeway exit. Plus, did you know there are current or former police officers with special jobs at baseball games? They're not there as security, but checking balls, bats and other items from the games.

In the early 2010s, Mike Posner burst onto the pop rap scene, as his melodic approach translated into multiple Billboard hits,

Children assigned to chew sugar-free gum purportedly score 3% higher on standardized tests of math skills (as widely reported in the press). But is this just one of the 5% of all possible untrue hypotheses statistically guaranteed to have some significant result in its favor (in fact, it's worse than that)?

The Fair Labour Association (FLA) has announced the upcoming departure of president and CEO, Sharon Waxman after seven years of leadership.

The global ESG movement took a hit this week, as an investor-driven climate change push at some of the world?s leading fossil fuel companies fell well shor

The theme for this edition of Stranger Songs is "Songs of Leonard Cohen – The Later Years," songs written or co-written by Leonard Cohen from about 1990 until his death in 2016, a period covered by the book “Leonard Cohen – Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In,” the third in a series of three books of oral history about Leonard Cohen by Michael Posner. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.

The global ESG movement took a hit this week, as an investor-driven climate change push at some of the world?s leading fossil fuel companies fell well shor

Yogi Sheridan and Tony Beltrami survived on the lead to take their respective $9,000 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) Trot at Freehold Raceway on Saturday afternoon (May 13).