Trying to buy a car? Your dealership might be recovering from a cyberattack

Trying to buy a car? Your dealership might be recovering from a cyberattack

Car dealerships in North America continue to wrestle with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a software company used widely in the auto retail sales sector. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in Canada and the U.S., was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks Wednesday. That led to … Read more

Alaska man helps trapped and shrieking baby moose — while avoiding its mama

Alaska man helps trapped and shrieking baby moose — while avoiding its mama

As It Happens6:30Alaska man helps trapped and shrieking baby moose — while avoiding its mama When Spencer Warren pulled up at work on Friday morning, he heard a strange, high-pitched creaking sound from the nearby lake.  “I’m used to the animals on the lake, and I said, ‘That’s an odd sounding bird,’” said Warren, a … Read more

Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship

Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton says she wants to understand the very large and the very small, and that’s why she became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in astrophysics.  Rousseau-Nepton received her PhD in 2017 from Université Laval in Quebec City. She said that at the time she wasn’t aware she was the first Indigenous … Read more

Federal panel lists 35 ‘plausible’ future threats to Canada and the world

Federal panel lists 35 ‘plausible’ future threats to Canada and the world

In a new report, a think-tank within Employment and Social Development Canada cites 35 “plausible” global disruptions that could reshape Canada and the world in the near future. The Policy Horizons Canada (PHC) panel drafted the list and then asked more than 500 stakeholders within and outside government to suggest which ones were more likely, when they might happen and how … Read more

Why deathbed dreams and visions can be a comfort for the dying — and those left behind

Why deathbed dreams and visions can be a comfort for the dying — and those left behind

The Current23:09What dying people see in their dreams As Charlotte Good was dying of pancreatic cancer in a Toronto hospital in 2007, she experienced a dream or vision of her own mother — who had died years before. Charlotte’s daughter, Cynthia Good, was staying over that night and sensed that she’d sat up. “I got … Read more

Arrests in Nijjar killing, commission report refocus India as potential source of foreign meddling

Arrests in Nijjar killing, commission report refocus India as potential source of foreign meddling

The arrest of three men in connection with the killing of a prominent Sikh activist, coming on the same day as a major report on foreign interference in Canada, has put renewed focus on India as a major player when it comes to alleged meddling in this country. The RCMP in British Columbia said Friday that they had … Read more

Loblaw reports $13.58B in Q1 revenue, as Reddit group’s boycott kicks off

Loblaw reports .58B in Q1 revenue, as Reddit group’s boycott kicks off

Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier — on Wednesday morning, the same day that a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer. The company’s quarterly profit was $459 million, marking a 9.8 per cent increase. Earnings per share were $1.72 … Read more

Federal, provincial politicians leave door open to foreign workers’ involvement in Honda deal

Federal, provincial politicians leave door open to foreign workers’ involvement in Honda deal

Parties to the massive Honda EV investment deal reached this week have tacitly acknowledged that foreign workers will be involved in setting up the proposed auto plants, while attempting to downplay an issue already seized upon by the federal Conservatives. In response to questions throughout the week, federal officials, their provincial counterparts and executives for the … Read more

UBC prof Suzanne Simard named in Time’s ‘most influential’ list

UBC prof Suzanne Simard named in Time’s ‘most influential’ list

When Suzanne Simard heard she was going to be named one of the 100 “most influential people” in the world on Wednesday, she had a hard time believing it at first. The Finding the Mother Tree author, who was included in Time magazine’s annual list alongside a handful of fellow Canadians, said she wondered whether her … Read more