Ontario

Nikola, producer of fuel cell and battery electric semi trucks, held a grand opening for the first of its HYLA refueling stations. The goal is to build a hydrogen refueling network that can be rolled out quickly, and built up over time as fuel cell trucks become more common. There’s a big push for zero emission trucks in California right now, in response to California’s new truck regulations. That push is particularly focused on the trucking routes between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the…

Ontario announced plans Thursday to produce a nuclear medical isotope that forms the essential component in a life-saving treatment for liver cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer deaths.The plan involves creating the medical isotope yttrium-90 (also known as Y-90) at the Darlington nuclear generating station in partnership with a pair of Ottawa-based companies, which transform the radioactive raw material into a cancer-fighting drug called TheraSphere.The two companies — BWXT Medical and Boston Scientific — already…

Robert Cockcroft's advice for people in Hamilton on April 8? Don't leave town — and expect some guests."The Hamilton-Niagara area is the best place to see the eclipse because that's where we get to see a total solar eclipse," said the director of McMaster University's William J. McCallion Planetarium. That day, people across North America will see the moon pass between the sun and the Earth. In some places, it will partially block out the sun. But in others — including Hamilton, Burlington, Six Nations and the Niagara…

Early Tuesday morning, in Ontario, Canada, a car crashed when it slammed into a tree, injuring at least two. It’s a nightmare for the victims, but reports indicate that it could have been worse, since Apple crash-dection features, which are included in the Apple Watch and iPhones, sent alerts to police. In fact, according to a story from KTLA news, the “collision-alert technology was instrumental in helping officers locate and provide aid to the victims.” The report goes on to say that “the crash occurred just before 2…

The new Battery Technology Centre will also build on the ARDC’s academic partnership with the University of Windsor on various testing projects.New Delhi: The first of 228 steel structural columns weighing over 800 tonnes have begun to take shape in the ongoing construction of the new cutting-edge Stellantis North America Battery Technology Centre located at the Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC) in Windsor, Ontario.Spanning an impressive 100,000 square…

John Reyes was helping his wife clean out her father’s 1900s-era home about nine months ago when they stumbled upon something truly unexpected. Reyes was rummaging through the crawl space in the basement of his late father-in-law’s home when he found some loose pennies held together by disintegrating paper rolls. He kept looking and eventually found dozens of bank bags containing copper pennies. Reyes, 41, a real estate agent in the Inland Empire, estimated the bags contained about 1 million pennies — with a face value…

A false report of an active shooter drew police to Ontario Mills mall Monday, investigators said.“A shooting did not happen,” Ontario Police Chief Mike Lorenz wrote in a tweet. “Ontario PD is investigating the person who made the false claim.”Video posted to social media showed a largely empty food court strewn with overturned chairs. Two people crouched on the ground behind a booth.Ontario police responded to the mall following reports of a disturbance and were trying to figure out if a crime took place, the Police…

An Ontario judge harshly criticized the province's climate plan Tuesday, saying it "falls severely short" of what the science on climate change requires, even as she dismissed a landmark lawsuit brought by a group of young people who say the government's actions threaten their future.Superior court judge Marie-Andrée Vermette agreed with the youth applicants on several key points, including that young and Indigenous people are disproportionately impacted by climate change and that the province is risking the lives of…

Last Updated: April 12, 2023, 02:30 ISTCanada has been making a big push into batteries for electric vehicles, touting tax incentives, bountiful critical minerals and clean energy to attract auto makers. (Image: Reuters File)The complex "will be a high-volume manufacturing hub for North American EV productionFord announced an investment of Can$1.8 billion (US$1.3 billion) Tuesday to retool its Canadian assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario to make electric vehicles and batteries for the North American market.The complex…

There was a time when seeing a whitetail deer in Thunder Bay, Ont., was unusual, even newsworthy. These days, however, that is not the case.Deer are often seen in the city, sometimes in large numbers. Recently, a video made the rounds on social media of a dozen or so deer walking on Fort William Road as cars and trucks passed by.Online pictures of deer filing through city neighbourhoods or grazing under bird feeders, are also common.Yet, Thunder Bay's urban deer herd is not an anomaly.Several other northwestern Ontario…