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New Crested Dinosaur Species Identified in Canada

Life reconstruction of Plesiolophus warnerensis. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge / CC BY 4.0.

A new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified in southern Alberta, Canada, dating back 77 million years to the Campanian age of the Cretaceous period.

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New pipeline in Canada to proceed after C$150bn pledged to ease BC and First Nations concerns

Port expansion and protections for whales part of BC and Alberta plan to expand country’s presence overseas

The governments of Canada and the province of Alberta will move forward on a major new oil pipeline after the pair announced a plan to ease concerns of British Columbia and First Nations on the Pacific coast.

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, shuttled between British Columbia and Alberta on Thursday to announce more than C$150bn in new investments in both provinces, part of a broader project of reducing trade with the United States and expanding his country’s presence in overseas markets.

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Spectaculaire, ce joyau des Rocheuses défie les couleurs que l'on croit possibles dans la nature

Canada : L’eau du lac Peyto s’étire en une étendue turquoise, éclatante comme un joyau niché au creux des Rocheuses. Tout autour, les forêts sombres montent la garde, dressant leur ombre sur les rives tandis que les glaciers lointains déposent sur la surface leurs éclats de lumière cristalline....

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Canada Missed Chances To Inspect OceanGate's Titan Before Fatal Implosion

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A report from Canada's Transportation Safety Board has highlighted regulatory failures that allowed OceanGate's unregistered, unflagged, and uncertified Titan submersible to operate out St. John's, Newfoundland, for years before it imploded on a tourist trip to the wreck of the Titanic in 2023. "When it came to the Titan, critical information existed across multiple federal government organizations, but no one was responsible for connecting the dots," says TBS chair Yoan Marier in a statement. "Without a complete picture of the operation, the Titan continued to operate in Canada without regulatory oversight." [...] As OceanGate continued to operate from St. John's in 2021 and 2022, the Titan made successful dives to the Titanic and several sites within Canadian waters. The company eventually interacted with a total of 10 Canadian federal agencies, including Parks Canada, the Department of National Defense, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. But the company's operations were never directly reported to the team responsible for marine safety. "In terms of the actual people that were responsible for marine oversight, their focus was on the Canadian support vessel," says TSB investigator Jason Melvin. While TSB investigators did not have access to the wreckage of the Titan itself, which remains with the US Coast Guard, they did analyze portions of the carbon fiber left over from its manufacture. They calculated that a hull made to OceanGate's exact specifications might have been able to make hundreds of millions of dives to Titanic depths before failing. However, the composite samples as built had porosity and waviness between layers and were ground down in a way that might have introduced defects. When the TSB tested the compressive strength of the carbon fiber, it indicated the material could fail in as few as 30 deep dives. [...] The TSB is recommending increased oversight of the riskiest vessels and improvements in information sharing between departments, and is requiring that all human-occupied submersibles be subject to international construction and safety standards.

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Des terriers d’écureuils vieux de 700 000 ans livrent une découverte que personne n’avait vue venir

Des terriers restés prisonniers du pergélisol pendant des centaines de milliers d’années ont livré un témoignage exceptionnel sur les écosystèmes de l’ère glaciaire. Grâce à l’ADN préservé dans des excréments fossilisés d’écureuils terrestres, des chercheurs ont reconstitué une partie de leur...

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Cyrille Bret : « Cette Coupe du monde sera bien plus qu’un tournoi de football : elle sera une immense bataille de récits »

La Coupe du monde 2026 ne se jouera pas seulement sur les stades. Entre affirmation de la puissance américaine, tensions migratoires et rivalités diplomatiques, le tournoi s'annonce comme un révélateur des fractures et des rapports de force qui traversent le monde contemporain. La Coupe du monde...

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BYD is bringing its 5-min ‘Flash’ electric car charging to Canada

BYD is preparing to bring its megawatt “Flash Charging” network, which can add about 250 miles (400 km) of range in 5 minutes, to Canada – the first confirmed deployment in North America.

The plan was revealed through a new BYD job posting in Toronto for a manager tasked with executing “BYD’s flash charging network expansion strategy and business growth across Canada.”

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O Mundial FIFA 2026 e a revolução tecnológica no futebol

Desde bolas com sensor de alta precisão a avatares 3D foto realistas gerados por inteligência artificial, conheça as inovações tecnológicas do Mundial de Futebol FIFA 2026, e como é que a tecnologia promete redesenhar o maior evento desportivo da história.

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Canada To Criminalise Biblical Passages with New Hate-Speech Law Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government in Canada is accelerating a proposal to criminalize certain biblical passages as part of an anti-hate speech initiative. This move has raised concerns about free speech and perceived attacks on traditional Christian morality, as critics warn of broader authoritarian implications.

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2025 Wildfires Were the Costliest Ever, Researchers Say

Severe, hard-to-control blazes in densely populated areas like Los Angeles drove the year’s record losses.

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Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Jan. 7, 2025. Fires in the Los Angeles area last year burned at least 90 square miles, killing at least 31 people and displacing more than 150,000.
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490-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Fills Puzzling Gap in Fossil Record

Life reconstruction of Magnicornaspis garwoodi. Image credit: Thomas Turner.

A new species of corcoraniid arthropod that lived during the Furongian epoch, between 497 and 487 million years ago, has been identified from an exceptionally preserved specimen found near Québec, Canada.

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Rare Ostrich-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found on Canadian Island

Life restoration of Quipalong henanesnsis, an ornithomimosaurian dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous, between 72 and 67 million years ago. Image credit: PaleoNeolitic / Sci.News.

Paleontologists in Canada say they have recovered a dinosaur tail vertebra from 75- to 80-million-year-old marine rocks on a small island off the coast of British Columbia, providing the clearest evidence yet that bird-like ornithomimosaurs once roamed the ancient Pacific coastline of North America.

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