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Greetings, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aviation and space. Today’s topic, as you undoubtedly know by now, is an unconventional dual purpose household appliance yours truly stumbled across while perusing, a virtual perusing actually, the pages of the 20 November 1948 issue of La Patrie, a daily newspaper published in Montréal, Québec. I know, I know, a combined dishwasher and washing machine has little to do with the aforementioned world of aviation and space. Still

Canada’s economy underwent dramatic changes during the Second World War, as Britain looked overseas for new sources of food, lumber, minerals, and other resources. While the 1930s were dominated by the Great Depression, the outbreak of war spurred the greatest growth the country has ever known. Between 1939 and 1945, Canada’s gross national product (GNP) more than doubled.

This text has been adapted from the Picturing the Past website, developed by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2006. In addition to building the rail system across the country, Canada’s two national railway companies (Canadian National Railways and the Canadian Pacific Railway) built a string of grand hotels in the major cities and resort areas of the nation.

Canadians need to learn how to embrace their failures – and use them as opportunities to grow and learn – rather than sweeping them under the rug. That’s the key message in Canadian Failures: Stories of Building Toward Success, a new book by Alex Benay, Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada. “Personally speaking, I just don’t think we talk about failure enough to get better,” says Benay in a candid interview about his book and the unique approach behind it. “The process was to

As a computer programmer, Kylie Toh experienced first-hand what it means to be a woman working in a STEM field. In response, she founded a non-profit that works to create a “welcoming, supporting environment for women at the intersection of technology and entrepreneurship”. In this video, Kylie speaks about Chic Geek and the opportunities available for women in STEM careers. Learn more about Chic Geek at: www.thechicgeek.ca.

The catapult to the future. Nineteen ninety-six stands as the opening year in our era of anytime-anywhere communications. That year, Mike Lazaridis unveiled the prototype of his first wireless communications device. Sure, there were all kinds of cellular phones on the market by then, but while most telecom firms and mobile carriers still focused on voice, the enterprising engineer from Waterloo, Ontario, believed people were just as eager to communicate by data. The next year, his company

Zita Cobb opened the Fogo Island Inn, a 29-suite facility, on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island in 2012. It is a beautiful edifice, combining modern architectural themes with traditional Newfoundland constructional elements, providing travelers with a respite from today’s hectic world. It is also the basis for a unique business model: taking a small, almost quaint Newfoundland coastal town and making the community itself – its people, culture and environment - the main attraction for visitors. Perched

Louis Scicluna was born in 1808 to Therese and Joseph Scicluna on the island of Malta. Joseph was a dockyard worker, and both him and Therese encouraged their son to attend school and achieve good grades. Louis, however, showed no interest in academics and faired poorly in class. Afraid that his son would not find a career, Joseph Scicluna took his son Louis to the shipyard in hopes that Louis would develop an interest in becoming a shipwright. Joseph’s plan worked, and for the rest of his life