WATCH | You can compare the truffula trees in this review of The Lorax movie:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. While searching there in 2017, King and Stimson spotted a tree trunk embedded in a boulder. The most similar modern plants, tree ferns and palms have far fewer leaves and didn't evolve until later. Will Matthaeus is a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin who measures and incorporates fossil plants into simulations of ancient ecosystems.
(Ben Nelms/CBC - image credit)This story is from this week's episode of the new CBC podcast Good Question, P.E.I. Good Question, P.E.I. Every week Good Question, P.E.I. Every week, Good Question, P.E.I. Good Question, P.E.I.
RCMP are investigating a death on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation as a homicide. (CBC/Radio-Canada - image credit)A northern Saskatchewan man has died, and RCMP say they are treating it as a homicide. On Thursday at around 12:45 p.m. CT, Loon Lake RCMP were called to home on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation, where they found Stick with injuries. RCMP say he was injured during an altercation involving a group of people at a different address. Police are asking people to come forward if they have information or video captured on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation around the noon hour on Feb. 1.
Kevin Lewis, a prominent St. John's actor, writer and teacher who helped shape generations of local talent, died on Thursday at the age of 81. Kevin Lewis, a prominent St. John's actor, writer and teacher who helped shape generations of local talent, died Thursday at the age of 81. (Alexandra Noseworthy/Refined Focus Photography)Kevin Lewis, a prominent St. John's theatre actor, writer and teacher who helped shape generations of Newfoundland and Labrador talent, has died. Lewis died at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's on Thursday. (CBC)Performer Clar Doyle met Lewis in high school at St. Bon's in St. John's.
Catherine Tait says CBC needs new financial model, not new mandate Feb 2, 2024 | 1:07 PMOTTAWA — The head of Canada’s public broadcaster says it’s the financial model and governance of CBC/Radio-Canada that need reviewing — not its mandate. Catherine Tait made the comments today to a room of industry insiders at Prime Time, a conference for the broadcasting, film and media industry. Tait is pushing for a long-term financial structure such as a charter, similar to that at the BBC, which has a six-year funding agreement with the U.K. government. She says CBC gets its annual funding based on the parliamentary cycle, leaving the broadcaster in a perpetual state of uncertainty.
FILE - Kris Jenner appears at the Business of Fashion 500 Gala in Paris on Sept. 30, 2023. Jenner will appear in an ad for Oreo which will air at the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer, File)Kris Jenner has a new term: “Twist on it.”The driven matriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner family will bring the phrase to the Super Bowl forefront during her commercial. “I come from a generation where it was all about the commercials for some of us,” said Jenner, who will appear in her first Super Bowl ad. It’s such an honor.”___More on the Super Bowl: https://apnews.com/hub/super-bowl
Our cookbook of the week is the Bao Family Cookbook by French restaurateur Céline Chung and team. The Bao Family Cookbook connects restaurateur Céline Chung’s two cultures: her Chinese heritage and Parisian home. On Jan. 18, 2019, Chung and Pham opened Petit Bao , the first Bao Family restaurant. So, with very good food but also nice architecture, nice music, very cool service.”Chung wrote the Bao Family Cookbook with the help of her team. Recipes and images excerpted from Bao Family Cookbook: Recipes from the Eight Culinary Regions of China .
(Darrell Roberts/CBC)Corner Brook MHA and former provincial fisheries minister Gerry Byrne says Newfoundland and Labrador deserves a higher allocation of redfish this season, and believes the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is "intellectually and morally bankrupt" in its decision-making. Federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced the redfish allocation for the Atlantic provinces in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last Friday. "The Gulf of St. Lawrence's return to [the] redfish fishery story should be a story of D.F.O. If he were minister, Byrne said, he would have allocated numbers more closely based on historical figures. He plans to bring that up in a meeting with DFO, current Fisheries Minister Elvis Loveless and provincial stakeholders on Friday.
This is the tale of a fairly normal man by the name of Richard Assman. Richard – who went by Dick for short – was born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan to his parents, Elizabeth and Adolf. Dick Assman was your average, everyday Canadian just trying to make a living. Assman worked as a gas station attendant for Petro-Canada. Shortly after transferring to a new location, Dick Assman’s life was about to be changed forever.
A trailer for “Allegiance” shows aerial views of Surrey and a “Canadian Federal Police Corps” building, described as the largest detachment of the police force. With a Surrey policing transition still a very hot topic in the news, the “Allegiance” creative team says the timing of the series launch is coincidental. Supinder Wraich (as the character Sabrina Sohal) salutes in a scene in CBC’s new Surrey-set police drama, “Allegiance,” to debut Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo: Darko Sikman via CBC/Lark Productions)Last fall, until just before Christmas, the first season of “Allegiance” was filmed in Surrey and parts of Langley. “The people of Surrey, whenever we were shooting, would stop and ask what we were doing,” the actor added.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley is leading the charge against an international financial system that puts more people at risk each year as the climate crisis deepens. Photo by COP28 / Christopher Pike (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed) Mottley intends to catapult her Bridgetown Initiative into the mainstream. But beyond these changes, Mottley believes she’s identified an important revenue stream that could generate hundreds of billions of dollars without straining the financial system. Barbados PM Mia Mottley has emerged on the world scene as a fierce champion of global financial reform to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Without naming it, Mottley is attempting to resurrect an old idea in financial circles and bring it from the national level to the international.
The STM manages public transportation such as bus and Metro service on the island of Montreal. (CBC/Radio-Canada - image credit)Montreal's transit authority is cutting 230 jobs while assuring the public that its bus and Metro services will not be affected. The STM is reducing its payroll by $25 million, specifically targeting positions that aren't directly related to STM service delivery. "Of course, we won't be able to keep making these kinds of budget cuts every year," said Léonard. The region's public transit agency had previously projected having to close the Metro at 11 p.m., stop intercity buses at 9 p.m. and cut lines from the public transit network if Quebec didn't cover its deficit.
These non-profit organizations compete with Value Village, which is a for-profit business owned by parent company Savers Value Village. Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. Outside the Value Village in Toronto, shoppers like Daniel Milford-Warren say they'll still hunt for a bargain. CBC's Marketplace and Streets Cents are teaming up to take a closer look into the Value Village pricing controversy.
But France and Belgium aren't the only countries whose students have been granted tuition exemptions. The provincial government has student mobility agreements with 39 countries, sparing higher education students from paying roughly $20,000 in international tuition fees. Those countries set their own criteria for parcelling out the province's tuition exemptions to students. The 86 exemptions reserved for Chinese graduate students which allow them to pay Quebec tuition rates will remain in effect. The international agreement facilitates French students' access to world-renowned education, and for decades, it has eased their path to becoming permanent residents in Quebec with a smaller financial burden than many international students.
Unlimited online access to the National Post and 15 other news sites with one account. National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition for viewing, sharing and commenting on any device. Unlimited online access to the National Post and 15 other news sites with one account. National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition for viewing, sharing and commenting on any device. “If we achieve results for the current fiscal year, I will recommend that the 1,140 unaffiliated and non-unionized employees receive their fair wages, and performance pay, if they meet their goals,” she said.
