Quebec fish market reels in customers with 385-kg tuna — its biggest catch yet

Quebec fish market reels in customers with 385-kg tuna — its biggest catch yet

When Sarah Landry first heard a fishing line fly off its reel, she never imagined a 385-kilogram tuna was on the other end. The co-owner of fish market Poissonnerie Gagnon in Rimouski, Que., had travelled to the Baie-des-Chaleurs, wedged between the Gaspé Peninsula and New Brunswick, with two fishermen hoping of catching a bluefin tuna typically weighing … Read more

Skip the Dishes, parent company laying off hundreds of employees in Canada

Skip the Dishes, parent company laying off hundreds of employees in Canada

About 800 Canadian employees are being laid off by Skip the Dishes and its parent company. The workforce reduction will affect approximately 100 Canada-based workerswith Skip the Dishes, the food delivery service’s chief executive, Paul Burns, said in a post on LinkedIn on Tuesday. Meanwhile, some 700 operations employees based out of Canada who work for its … Read more

2024 Canadian Screen Awards: BlackBerry becomes most awarded title in ceremony’s history

2024 Canadian Screen Awards: BlackBerry becomes most awarded title in ceremony’s history

In an echo of last year’s duel record-breaking performance by dramas The Porter and Brother, both BlackBerry and Little Bird shattered records at the final night of the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards. But while those first two titles both became the most ever awarded at the CSAs last year with 12 wins apiece, there was one … Read more

World temperatures go a full year above 1.5 C warming limit, EU scientists say

World temperatures go a full year above 1.5 C warming limit, EU scientists say

The world just experienced its hottest January on record, continuing a run of exceptional heat fuelled by climate change, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. Last month surpassed the previous warmest January, which occurred in 2020, in C3S’s records going back to 1950. The exceptional month came after 2023 ranked … Read more

2023 was the hottest year on record — by a long shot

2023 was the hottest year on record — by a long shot

After a year of record-breaking wildfires across Canada and the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, it likely comes as no surprise that 2023 was the hottest year on record. According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), 2023 was 1.48 C warmer than the pre-industrial average from 1850–1900, beating out 2016’s record … Read more

Paleontologists discover rare fossils of a Cretaceous-era lizard near Grande Prairie, Alta.

Paleontologists discover rare fossils of a Cretaceous-era lizard near Grande Prairie, Alta.

Not far from the bank of Wapiti River, just 11 kilometres from Grande Prairie, there’s a paleontological goldmine: an ancient riverbed that contains fragments of skeletons of hundreds, possibly thousands, of animals from the late Cretaceous period, some 70 million years ago.  Discovered in 2014,  the bonebed is known as a DC site, or, more formally, Wapiti Unit 3. … Read more