Japan has achieved a breakthrough in renewable energy by wirelessly transmitting electricity from orbit to Earth for the first time.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully sent power collected by solar panels in space to a ground station using microwave transmission. The test proves that clean energy can be harvested beyond the planet and delivered without physical cables.
The demonstration marks a critical step toward space-based solar farms that could one day power cities with continuous, weather-proof renewable energy.
Reacting to calls by ministers and officials in France and Czechia for Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, to resign, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said:
Redacted internal report by corporation's human rights body obtained by CBC News
As Ottawa publicly defended its largely permit-free procedure to send Canadian arms and munitions to the United States, the Crown corporation overseeing international transfers conducted a review of the final destination of those shipments, CBC News has learned.
Obtained through an access to information request, the assessment's main text is mostly redacted — including its conclusions.
Prime Minister Carney’s now-famous speech at Davos outlined a vision of Canada charting a path as a “middle power” between increasingly belligerent “great powers” dominating a lawless planet.
Repeated ridges of high pressure have prevented winter from setting in
Repeated ridges of high pressure have been driving temperatures in B.C. up into the double digits, with daily heat records falling in at least a dozen cities from Vancouver to Cranbrook to Dawson Creek.
Last year, Canadian politicians lowered the cost of new fossil-fuel burning passenger vehicles by thousands of dollars by scrapping the carbon price. Unsurprisingly, sales of these high-emissions cars and trucks surged by 135,000 to reach 1.8 million in 2025. If we want to avoid a full-blown climate crisis this number needs to be zero.
Canada’s federal New Democratic Party (NDP), which has the third-largest membership base in federal politics, is facing controversy in its 2026 leadership race after an unelected three-person vetting committee rejected two successive candidates advancing an explicitly anti-war, anti-capitalist platform. The decision has sparked fierce debate about the boundaries of acceptable political discourse within the country’s social democratic party.
