Tag: Technology & Science

  • CRTC Seeks Solutions to Help Canadians Protect Themselves from Unsolicited and Illegitimate Calls

    CRTC Seeks Solutions to Help Canadians Protect Themselves from Unsolicited and Illegitimate Calls

    Ottawa-Gatineau – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) launched a public consultation to better understand the technical solutions that are currently offered to help Canadians manage unsolicited telecommunications and illegitimate telemarketing calls. The CRTC is also exploring new and innovative solutions that could enhance consumer protections, including those that may reduce illegitimate caller identification…

  • Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’

    Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’

      In the latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the center-left of the…

  • Be a Part of Choosing a New App for Alberta

    Be a Part of Choosing a New App for Alberta

    Voting is open to pick a new app that uses Government of Alberta information in a way that helps you. Service Alberta, in partnership with Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures, has launched an online competition to see how the government’s open data can be used to create applications that provide social and economic value to…

  • Canadian Space Technology Helps Breast Cancer Patients

    Canadian Space Technology Helps Breast Cancer Patients

      The technology and expertise developed to build the first Canadarm not only paved the way for its descendants, Canadarm2 and Dextre, that are in great part responsible for the successful assembly and operating of the International Space Station, it also translated into new technology for the operating room. The Centre for Surgical Innovation and…

  • Supporting Astronauts Headed to the International Space Station

    Supporting Astronauts Headed to the International Space Station

    Government of Canada invests in simulators designed to train astronauts to operate Canadarm2 on board the ISS Longueuil, Québec – (Yesterday), Industry Minister James Moore announced the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a contract to L-3 MAPPS for simulator systems used to train astronauts and flight controllers to operate Canadarm2 and Dextre, Canada’s contribution…

  • A Pluto Flyby with a Canadian Touch

    A Pluto Flyby with a Canadian Touch

      Launched in 2006, New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever built, continues its long journey to the Dwarf Planet Pluto over five billion kilometres away from the Earth. The probe has been conducting a study of Pluto and its moons since early 2015, and today marked its closest approach of the celestial body, zooming past…

  • NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter

    NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter

    NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from…

  • Social Media in Aviation – a Helping Hand or a Slippery Slope?

    Social Media in Aviation – a Helping Hand or a Slippery Slope?

      According to the latest Jobvite survey, more than 75% of enterprises are planning to increase their spending on recruitment via social networks in 2015. This comes as no surprise, considering that currently about 2 billion people on earth are using social media every single day – pilots, flight crew and other aviation workers included.…

  • Calgary Police Service Launches Mobile App

    Calgary Police Service Launches Mobile App

    The Calgary Police Service is proud to launch a free mobile app, providing another way for citizens to interact with the Service. Advancements in technology have driven citizens’ expectations on how to engage with organizations. To respond to these expectations, months of research and consultation have gone into the development of the Calgary Police Service…

  • Albertans Encouraged to “Report a Find” to Share Discoveries

    Albertans Encouraged to “Report a Find” to Share Discoveries

    Albertans can play a vital role in protecting valuable historic resources by sharing their discoveries through the Government of Alberta’s “Report a Find” program. The severe flooding in southern Alberta in 2013 exposed many previously unknown archaeological and palaeontological sites. The Report a Find program has been launched to help Albertans report the location and…

  • Foothills School Division: BYOD Feedback

    Foothills School Division: BYOD Feedback

    The Board was treated to an engaging presentation on FSD’s “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) pilot, by outgoing Director of Learning Technologies, James Aitchison – who retires at the end of this month following a 34 year career in Education – along with Kristie Tjader, who teaches grade 6 French Immersion at École Percy Pegler…

  • TELUS Unveils Public Wi-Fi Across B.C. and Alberta

    TELUS Unveils Public Wi-Fi Across B.C. and Alberta

    Free Wi-Fi service available to both TELUS and non-TELUS customers at more than 8,000 hotspots TELUS customers move seamlessly between TELUS’ 4G wireless network and Wi-Fi to optimize their network experience VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired) – TELUS is making free public Wi-Fi available at more than 8,000 hotspots across B.C. and Alberta. Since early 2014, TELUS…

  • Bungie Rallies 50,000 Gamers, Raises $1,026,006.80 for Nepal Earthquake Relief

    Bungie Rallies 50,000 Gamers, Raises $1,026,006.80 for Nepal Earthquake Relief

    Donation from gaming company Bungie and their community is the single largest contribution to Direct Relief for earthquake response efforts in Nepal. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Several of Bungie’s community members who helped raise money for earthquake relief and recovery in Nepal through gaming company Bungie were at Direct Relief headquarters Thursday to present a check for…

  • Royal Tyrrell Museum Unveils New Dinsosaur: “Hellboy”

    Royal Tyrrell Museum Unveils New Dinsosaur: “Hellboy”

      A new species of horned dinosaur – one of the most impressive discoveries since Triceratops – has been unveiled at the Royal Tyrrell Museum’s newest exhibit, Fossils in Focus. Regaliceratops peterhewsi was discovered by a member of the public in southeastern Alberta in 2005. Nicknamed “Hellboy” due to the combination of difficult excavation conditions…

  • Machine Learning Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Medicine

    Machine Learning Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Medicine

    Computer system that creates personalized metabolic profiles could help doctors predict diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer and diabetes before they develop. By Scott Lingley (Edmonton) A breakthrough in machine learning has also brought about a “game changer” for the science of metabolomics—and will hasten the development of diagnostic and predictive tests for Alzheimer’s, cancer, diabetes and…