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CNN – Hurricane Fiona’s strength is barreling up Canada’s east coast after making landfall in Nova Scotia early Saturday, lashing the area with ferocious rain and winds and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people in what could be a “faulty” weather event for the country. Fiona, now a post-tropical cyclone, had maximum sustained …

Fiona makes landfall, battering Canada’s Atlantic coast with strong winds and rain Read More »

Who’s ready for a breather? A flurry of hardware and software releases following Apple’s “Far Out” event earlier this month has finally hit a bit of a hiatus, with the Apple Watch Ultra and second-generation AirPods Pro they are now opening in the hands of customers while we have a couple of weeks before the …

Top stories: iOS 16.0.2 bug fixes, Apple Watch Ultra and AirPods Pro 2 launch and more Read More »

CBC News will have digital updates on Fiona throughout the weekend. CBC Radio is providing live storm updates 24 hours a day, although our signal went out due to the storm just before 8am and we’re racing to get back on the air. Listeners are invited to call in to share their storm experiences and …

Over 82,000 without power in PEI after Fiona makes landfall in eastern NS Read More »

On Monday, in what sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie, NASA will slam a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see if it can shift its orbit, all in an effort to test a way to protect Earth of any possible future threat. . The good news is that there is no need …

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Hundreds of thousands of Nova Scotians lost power Friday night amid high winds and rain as Hurricane Fiona arrived, and officials warned the lights, for some, could remain out for a long time. Fiona could be “a Dorian-level event,” Nova Scotia Power storm leader Matt Drover told reporters earlier Friday, referring to the 2019 storm …

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NASA’s upcoming Artemis Moon program can be seen as practice for an eventual manned mission to Mars. The strategy for accomplishing this daunting task was detailed in a revised list of planning goals for Artemis and beyond. On September 20, NASA released a plan to send humans to Mars in the not-too-distant future. Under NASA’s …

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The province will hold a workshop next week to give small flock poultry owners in Kelowna more information about the bird flu virus. It will be held at Reid Hall, Benvoulin Heritage Park from 8.30am to 1pm on Thursday 29 September and is free for everyone to register. Capacity is limited. The session will be …

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After nearly 100 birds at Spallumcheen’s O’Keefe Ranch had to be culled following an outbreak of bird flu, the British Columbia government will host an information session for small-flock poultry owners. The outbreak was declared by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on September 18, which noted that the birds were not poultry, meaning the birds …

Province hosts avian flu information session for Okanagan small flock poultry owners – Kelowna Capital News Read More »

All the contents of the universe, in a graph Scientists agree that the universe consists of three distinct parts: everyday visible (or measurable) matter and two theoretical components called dark matter and dark energy. The latter two are theoretical because they have not yet been directly measured, but even without a full understanding of these …

Animation: Two centuries of global surface temperatures mapped: countries at highest risk of flooding The entire universe, in one chart Read More »

It will be a cold night in parts of Ontario, prompting Environment Canada to issue its first frost warning of the season. Temperatures are expected to drop near the freezing mark overnight across much of southern Ontario, as well as the northeastern region of the province. The agency says residents should cover fruit trees and …

Frost, yes frost, advisory in effect for much of southern Ontario and parts of the GTA Read More »