Freelance technology and science journalist
David Nield is a freelance technology and science journalist with more than two decades of experience covering technology, science, software, gadgets, the web, digital culture and related developments. His work has appeared across established technology and science publications.
Euclid’s 15,072 high-confidence gravitational-lens candidates give Canadian researchers a far larger dataset, but they are not all confirmed lenses.
A UBC-led study finds two ancient mountain-growth pulses that may have aided habitability, while the proposed causal link remains a hypothesis.
Ottawa has announced $200 million for Woodfibre LNG, but the investment structure, conditions and required approvals remain undisclosed.
Canada proposes raising the luxury-tax threshold for fully electric and hydrogen vehicles to $150,000. The draft change still needs Parliament’s approval.
Canada has announced up to $116 million for 12 international climate projects. The package sets maximum contributions and start years, not completed results.
Ottawa and Ontario have offered up to $469 million for Honda’s Alliston plans. Here is what the public money, immediate retooling and broader commitment actually cover.
Seven federally funded research projects examine what connected cars, health apps, smartwatches and machine-listening systems can collect or infer about Canadians.
Budget 2026 promises Canadian AI companies access to 500 megawatts of sovereign compute, but it does not yet identify the sites, schedule or eligibility rules.
Canada and five other governments backed common frontier-model evaluation and incident reporting, but the declaration does not itself create Canadian law.
A geospatial model estimates that six per cent of Montreal’s mapped grid cells account for more than half of food waste from businesses and institutions.
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