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#351 Rough Seas and Reliable Defence Partnerships
Around the world, climate change and shifting alliances are opening up new theatres of geopolitical competition. In the Arctic, Canada must be ready to patrol
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#271 Pumped Storage: Australia tackles Intermittency
On the receiving end of among of the worst natural disasters in modern history, while being blessed with some of the most abundant natural resource
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#227 Electrifying the Skies: Harbour Air’s Green Revolution
The De Havilland Beaver is a single pilot, seven passenger piston airplane that’s an icon of Canadian aviation. It has been out of production for
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Canada Infrastructure Bank funds small modular reactor
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has agreed to invest CA$970 million in the country’s first small modular reactor (SMR). Ontario Power Generation is developing the
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Canada plans world’s largest geothermal lagoon
The world’s largest geothermal lagoon is set to be built in Charlevoix, Canada. The lagoon is being designed based on the famous geothermal lagoons in
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Biofuels and the circular economy
Partner: WSP “We’re really at the beginning of seeing the potential of what can be done with trash,” says Andrea Redford. She is the chief
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Modern nuclear goes modular
Partner: SNC-Lavalin On the first of January 2021, European natural gas prices sat at a sedate 23 Euros per Megawatt hour. By June, the price
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Computer program enables gesture control
Researchers from Canada are developing a prototype technology that will enable users to execute operations on a computer with their hands – but not with
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#133 COP26: The Legacy of the Lac Megantic Disaster
Early in the morning of 6 July 2013 a freight train carrying 7.7 million litres of crude oil derailed, destroying downtown Lac Megantic, a small
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#120 Recycled Plastic: The Canadian Potential
In 2019, Justin Trudeau declared war on plastic waste. And single-use plastics were listed as a toxic material in Canada in May of this year.
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#103 A Canadian Blueprint for Net Zero
What is Net Zero? And how can we get there? Can we mitigate the damage of three centuries of fossil fuel-powered industrialisation, with three decades
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#59 Empowering Ethical Engineering
Engineers are in a uniquely powerful position. Able to shape our built environment and so influence the direction of civilisation, the impact that their expertise