Every spring, the federal government delivers a budget to the House of Commons. It lays out how it will collect and spend money in the year ahead.

The cicadas are coming! This spring, more than a trillion cicadas will crawl out of the ground in the eastern U.S. They will mate, lay eggs, and die.

The world wastes a billion tonnes of food a year. If you laid it all out, it would cover an area the size of China, the fourth largest country in the world.

On April 8, 2024, parts of North America will witness a total solar eclipse. The Moon will pass in front of the Sun, and for a few short minutes, completely block it from view.

There is a mountain in Mumbai, India called Deonar. But this mountain isn’t made of rock. It’s made of 16 million tonnes of trash.

Have you read the headlines? Canadian newsrooms are shrinking. Governments are arresting journalists. Politicians are crying “fake news”.

It’s bad news for news media.

On February 16, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a remote Arctic prison. He was only 47. Political allies and leaders around the world believe he was murdered.

On February 8, a volcano in southwest Iceland erupted. The early morning eruption opened a three-kilometre crack in the Earth. Bright orange lava sprayed 50 to 80 metres in the air.

A town in central British Columbia. A canyon on the province’s Fraser River. A portage trail between the Fraser and Summit Lake. All of them are named after John Robert Giscome.