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Whitehorse Gold Increases Non-Brokered Offering to up to $2 million for Aggregate Proceeds Under the Offerings of up to $14.8 million Announces Results of Annual General Meeting  Whitehorse Gold Corp. announces that, further to its news release of April 28, 2021, it has increased the size of its non-brokered private placement offering of units and flow-through units . The Non-Brokered Offering has now increased to aggregate gross proceeds of up to C$2 million, which consist of up to 329,000 Units and 778,500 Flow-Through Units. This upsized … Announces Results of Annual General Meeting  W...

  TORONTO -- Activists, experts and policy makers are speaking out on what they describe as an ever-growing “influence” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Canadian business, academic and political circles. There has been mounting scrutiny on the CCP’s increased flexing of its intelligence muscles since the ascension of President Xi Jinping in 2013. Canada’s intelligence agencies have taken the rare step of naming China as a significant threat to the country’s sovereignty, with CSIS director David Vigneault publicly saying in a February 2021 speech that Canadians are being ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nearly one quarter of the land in the Northern Hemisphere, amounting to some 9 million square miles, is layered with permafrost – soil, sediment, and rocks that are frozen solid for years at a time. Vast stretches of permafrost can be found in Alaska, Siberia, and the Canadian Arctic, where persistently freezing temperatures have kept carbon, in the form of decayed bits of plants and animals, locked in the ground. Scientists estimate that more than 1,400 gigatons of carbon is trapped in the Earth’s permafrost. As global temperatures climb, and permafr...

Credits: Courtesy of the researchers *Terms of Use: Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." Caption: Earth’s permafrost shifted to a more stable state in the last 400,...

The Dance Centre will showcase online performances in the lead up to International Dance Day on April 29. The array of high-tech tools included aerial drones, electronic fish finders and data loggers equipped with satellite telemetry, a gyroscope, hydrophone and an underwater camera. Attached to the killer whales with suction cups, these devices allowed the scientists to record what the whales see and hear, as well as their movements in the water, and their diving and hunting behaviour. The video clips, collected from above and below the water, samples of which can be viewed here were arrest...