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Canada
Chairman George: The Greek-Canadian Who Became a Singing Superstar in China
A PhD-trained statistician for the federal agency Statistics Canada is an unlikely candidate for becoming a singing sensation anywhere—much less in China. But this is the surprising path the life of Canadian-born George Sapounidis took after 1999, when he...
Ancient Greece
12-Year-Old Boy Recreates Ancient Greek Archimedes’ Death Ray
An award-winning 12-year-old school boy in Canada has created a working death ray based on the model by ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Archimedes.
Historians and scientists have for hundreds of years been deliberating on whether a "death ray" weapon...
Crime
Drug Dealer Arrested After ‘Free Cocaine Sample’ Business Model
A drug dealer in Canada has been arrested after police allegedly found 60 grams of cocaine at his home, which he had been separating into small bags and stapling to his business cards as a 'free sample' to lure...
Canada
Juan de Fuca: The Great Greek Explorer
Juan de Fuca, or Ioannis Phokas, was an intrepid, and much underappreciated, Greek explorer and navigator who lived during the sixteenth century. De Fuca is best known for being the first to describe the Strait of Anian, which is...
Canada
Mysterious Shipwreck Washes Up on Canada’s Coast
A mysterious shipwreck has washed up on Canada's coastline centuries after it is thought to have sunk.
The ghostly vessel appeared on the shores of Cape Ray on the Newfoundland coast and is thought to have been dredged up by...
Business
Libra’s GSI to Build Massive Solar Power Facility in Canada
Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure LLC (GSI), one of the renewable energy subsidiaries of Libra Group, announced the construction of a 100-megawatt (MWac) utility-scale solar facility in Saskatchewan, Canada.
The Iyuhána Solar (Iyuhána), a GSI-led partnership with Saturn Power Inc. and Ocean...
Life
Plumber Finds Gold Under a Bathtub in Canada
Gold has been found in some wonderfully strange places over the years, including one bar worth $50,000, which was found by a plumber underneath a bathtub in Canada.
Plumber Alif Babul was dismantling a bathtub at a home in Calgary,...
Animals
Fossilized Stomach Reveals What Young Tyrannosaurs Ate
Paleontologists in Canada have made a new discovery concerning dinosaurs. They found a 75-million-year-old baby dinosaur skeleton belonging to the Gorgosaurus libratus species. What makes this finding so important is that its stomach contained the remains of two young...
Canada
Growing Up Black in Greece: A Diplomat’s Daughter Recalls
Growing up black in Greece? Patricia Kumbakisaka, 31, one of Canada’s most accomplished young black women, has done it. Here she describes her life in Greece.
Archaeology
Vikings Were in America Before Columbus, Study Claims
Vikings from Greenland were living in North America's Newfoundland 1,000 years ago according to evidence from a recent study.
Newfoundland is located in Maritime Canada. Scientists have suspected for years that Vikings had settled in the area, but had not been...