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Author: Ivan Semeniuk
Publication Date: January 11, 2026 - 16:39
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NASA’s Pandora hitches ride on successful satellite launch by Toronto-based company
January 11, 2026
Toronto-based aerospace company Kepler Communications Inc. launched 10 satellites on Sunday, cementing its position as the operator of the largest fleet of Canadian-built spacecraft to date.
The cluster of 300-kilogram satellites – each one about the size of a large desk – were among 47 payloads carried into orbit on a Space X rocket that lifted off at 5:44 Pacific time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, about 250 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles.
A British Columbia judge has knocked a year off the prison sentence for a Métis-Cree woman who sexually assaulted a teen less than half her age after sending the boy “sexualized photographs” of herself “in states of undress, as well as pictures of her breasts and vagina.”
Matraca Lynn Dodding has pleaded guilty in B.C. Provincial court to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old in the spring of 2024 when she was 32 years old. She also pleaded guilty to communicating with the young man, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, for the purpose of facilitating the sexual assault.
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Some young people in a stolen vehicle with a 16-year-old First Nations girl who was shot and killed by police are expected to testify today at an inquest into the death.
February 10, 2026 - 06:34 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Recently, I reported for The Walrus on how Alberta lost the plot on measles in 2025.
First, a reminder of the timeline. Canada’s recent trouble with measles began late in October 2024, when an infected traveller brought it to New Brunswick. By November 1, public health officials declared an outbreak in the Fredericton area, and soon, more than forty people—mostly unvaccinated children—contracted the virus.
By March 2025, measles had made it to northern Alberta, and by the summer, the province reported more measles cases than the entire United States. (The population of Alberta is 5...
February 10, 2026 - 06:30 | Monica Kidd | Walrus



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