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/ The Man With the Golden Wrench: James Bond car engineer joins Canadian effort to build a Tesla north Auto A-team tasked with creating zero-emissions car with a $50,000 price tag that regular Joes might actually want to buy by Joe O'Connor SHARE STORY Fraser Dunn, chief engineer of special projects for Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., pictured with the Valkyrie, a supercar, made for billionaires. Dunn is quitting Aston Martin to join Project Arrow, a Canadian effort to build a zero emissions car for families and create a Tesla north.  Richard Pardon On the night before ...

March 11, 2021 at 2:26 pm The Space Race began in earnest on 4 October 1957, when the Soviets launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. Sputnik I orbited Earth roughly once every 96 minutes and was tracked by Soviet scientists for about 21 days, before its batteries died on 26 October 1958. Advertisement The USSR had begun the race to conquer space. On 4 January 1958, Sputnik I fell back towards Earth, burning up on re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, but by that stage the Soviets had already launched Sputnik II on 3 November 1957, carrying the dog Laika into Earth orbit. T...

Trudeau and Big Pharma: Not a love story Paul Wells: Why doesn't Canada have a robust pharmaceutical industry? Until the COVID crisis hit, Ottawa spent years putting up 'don't bother' signs. February 22, 2021 A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Jan. 7, 2021 (CP/Nathan Denette) On the bright side, when it comes to vaccines, so far Canada is actually doing better than Australia. That country bet big on a thriving domestic bio-sciences sector. It was making good progress on a made-in-Australia vaccine until...

Jeff Rubin: unpacking the impact of globalisation on working people "Rubin makes the connection between the anxiety – if not anger – about the hollowing out of the US' industrial heartlands, the coastal regions that fuelled England’s Brexit vote and the so-called populist revolts against the political class in France" An overgrown parking lot lies empty in front of the closed Packard Electric complex on October 29, 2012 in Warren, Ohio. Warren, like much of rust belt Ohio, had suffered through long-term economic decline, even before the 2010s recession. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Image...

Cartographic highlights from Canadian Geographic’s 2020 issues December 30, 2020 Truth be told, quite possibly our most popular map of 2020 isn’t included below. Why? It appeared on this website only, partly owing to its timeliness (at the time) — it was a map of COVID-19 cases in Canada per capita in April. (The map, and accompanying blog post by our cartographer Chris Brackley, is the most-read piece on our site this year!) Still, what’s gathered here are other highlight examples of cartographic creations we published in print in 2020. (See our top maps from 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 a...