Rising Concerns Over Employment Insurance Fraud in Canada
Employment Insurance is one of Canada’s largest social programs, providing temporary financial assistance to eligible…
Canadians Are Draining TFSAs to Cover Bills. Most Don’t Know the Room Doesn’t Come Back Until January
Canadians took nearly $70 billion out of Tax-Free Savings Accounts in 2024. That figure comes from Canada Revenue Agency data reported by The Globe and Mail. Roughly one-third of TFSA holders aged 25 to 45 made at least one withdrawal that year, higher than the overall average. People in their late 20s and early 30s…
How Ants Work as a Team With No Leader
Ants work as a team without anyone giving orders. A colony can find food, care for young, defend the nest, and even construct temporary structures because each ant responds to what is immediately around it—other ants, chemical trails, or the task at hand. The queen lays eggs. She does not assign jobs or manage daily…
Democrats seize control of both House and Senate in midterm elections
News organizations including Reuters and the Associated Press projected on Wednesday that Democrats seized control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in the midterm elections held Tuesday. Democrats flipped Senate seats in Kansas, where Adam Hamilton became the state’s first Democratic senator since the Great Depression, in South Carolina, a…
Voters Cast Ballots to Decide Control of Congress for Remainder of Trump’s Term
Voters across the United States cast ballots on Tuesday in midterm elections that will determine control of the House and Senate for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate were on the ballot, including special elections for the seats vacated by…
Fossilized Red Blood Cells Found in a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bone
A fragment of leg bone from a small meat-eating dinosaur that lived roughly 115 million years ago in what is now northeastern Brazil contains microscopic structures that researchers interpret as mineralized red blood cells, along with chemical traces of a key component of hemoglobin. The dinosaur is Aratasaurus museunacionali, a basal coelurosaurian theropod known from…
Why Carboniferous Insects Grew So Large
Roughly 300 million years ago, the largest flying insect known from the late Carboniferous had a wingspan of about 65 to 75 centimetres—roughly the length of a human arm. Its name is Meganeura monyi. It belonged to an extinct group called griffinflies (Meganisoptera), close relatives of modern dragonflies but not true dragonflies themselves. On the…
European supermarket freezers overridden in second cyberattack
European supermarket groups reported on Monday that refrigeration and freezer systems at stores across the continent had been remotely overridden, raising temperatures and forcing food to be discarded. Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt in Belgium and Luxembourg, ICA and Coop in Sweden, Carrefour in Belgium and SuperValu in Ireland were among the chains affected, according to…
How Impeachment Works in the United States
Impeachment is the process the House of Representatives uses to charge a federal official with “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Constitution gives the House the sole power to impeach and the Senate the sole power to try all impeachments. An impeachment is not a removal. It is the equivalent of an…
What Happened to Megalodon and Why It Disappeared
For roughly 20 million years a shark the length of a city bus patrolled warm coastal waters with teeth the size of a human hand. Otodus megalodon was not merely large. It was the dominant predator of its world, and then the fossil record goes quiet. The last reliable teeth date to about 3.6 million…
How El Niño Affects Canadian Winters
El Niño is one of the strongest natural influences on winter weather across North America. When it develops, unusually warm sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific alter atmospheric circulation, including the position and strength of the jet streams that steer storms and Arctic air. For Canada, that shift has historically favoured milder conditions across much…