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For the January edition, we explain new technology which is making cow births safer, an international citizen science initiative for monitoring meteors, and how a new eye drop is improving vision for the middle-aged consumer.

Greetings, my eager beaver reading friend, a welcome caused by the fact that I see a hand poking out of the ether. You have a question? Wunderbar! Is there a typo in the photographic reference that will kick off this issue of our wonderful blog / bulletin / thingee, you ask? The year 1878 was a little too early, you say. It was certainly early, but not too early. The truth was / is that one of the first telephone networks in Canada was established in Montréal, Québec, in 1878, I think. I kid you

Good morning, my reading friend, and welcome to the second part of our article on the Canadian Canadair CL-44 cargo plane. As you are no doubt aware, relations between Canada and its powerful neighbour to the south are sometimes (often?) difficult. An example of these tensions concerned, you guessed it, the quite innocuous aircraft the CL-44 was. In 1959 and 1960, even before the first flight of the civilian swing-tail version of that aircraft, Canadair Limited of Cartierville, Québec, obtained