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Did you know the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are evangelizing our children with outright Hinduism and occultism? Burn them to ashes! At least that's what the fellows from this 1990s Canadian Christian panel "Not Just Fun and Games" desire. The best part of the video is when they start informing the public that "ninjas were assassins, they were mercenaries!" More »
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The UN's latest Climate Change Conference recently concluded after two weeks of intense negotiations in Durban, South Africa. There's going to be a new agreement to address climate change, but does that really mean anything? Let's break down what happened. More »
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Here's a scene I can see becoming increasingly more common as the decades wear on. After a street mural in Vancouver was defaced by an extremely uncreative would-be anarchist (top), somebody slapped a QR code over the half-assed tag (middle). More »
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Well, I don't remember Alpha Flight ever going on this adventure. Three teenagers from Chilliwack, British Columbia recently decided it would be a ripping idea to lure would-be pedophiles to public places using fake internet profiles. More »
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Life is full of subtle pleasures: a bracing autumn breeze, the intoxicating aroma of braised parsnips, and, of course, the occasional Ogopogo sighting. This footage was shot on November 2 at Okanagan Lake in British Columbia. Explains Global BC: More »
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Every autumn, around 1,000 of the world's estimated 20,000 polar bears make their way to Churchill, Manitoba, a small town situated on the shore of northeastern Canada's Hudson Bay. There, the polar bears wait for the bay to freeze over so that they can hunt for seals and other marine mammals, and accumulate fat stores that they will use to survive the following summer. More »
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Most of us are accustomed to money covered with dead historical figures and scenic historical monuments. In the Great White North, they are minting commemorative coins adorned with Québécois lake dragons and underwater panthers. If you live anywhere but Canada, your money officially sucks. More »
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The stalwart zombie-road-sign prank recently befuddled drivers outside of St. John's, Canada. Anonymous pranksters set it up to inform unwitting Newfoundlanders/Labradorians of a necrotic outbreak. Walking dead and those darn space rays, griefing the roadways of North America. More »
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If you're traveling to Canada, a country whose customs officials are notorious for playing the role of morality police, you'd better leave your Japanese comics at home — whether they're in print or digital. More »
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This video of a UFO hovering over Lake Erie has been burning up the interwebs for months. It shows a lovely sunset over the lake, followed by a strange flickering light hovering in perfect stillness over the clouds. More »
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In light of the release of Jason Eisner's Hobo with a Shotgun, QuietEarth asked the world's leading expert on Canadian exploitation cinema, the Managing Editor of Canuxploitation, Paul Corupe, to share his five favourite and most outrageous Canadian expoitation films. More »
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Remember back in the year 2000 when you'd feed your brat kids their breakfast pellets, head to work under the city's weather controlled dome, your computer overlords only knew you by your nine digit identification number, and you'd end your day fantasizing about a life before computers? More »
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Last week, pranksters dyed the Goldstream River on Vancouver Island bright green using the dye fluorescein. Apparently the river was so bright that it was painful to look at. Here's footage of this roiling ectoplasmic channel. More »
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The somewhat controversially-titled(?) Device to Root Out Evil is a structure in Vancouver, Canada. Dennis Oppenheim's upside down church was kicked out of New York and Stanford before it came to rest up north. [Via Unusual Architecture.] More »
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Ideally, at least, that's what they do. In practice, they have to deal with low gravity, uneven surfaces, and lots of grit. The iRing provides a new way to do it. More »
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Despite being outshined by its rowdy neighbor to the south, Canada has its own plans of conquering the lunar frontier. More »
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Did you know there was an abandoned Nazi weather station on the coast of present-day Canada? Until 1981, almost nobody did. More »
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"The ship stood inside itself and looked out through blue fabricated eyes." It's one of my favorite short-story openings in ages. Damon Shaw's "A Little Thing" is just one of two new stories up at Canada's science fiction magazine, AE. More »
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Although climate change could still have devastating effects for much of the world, some regions stand to benefit immensely. Canada, Scandinavia, and even Greenland could all become economic powerhouses, making "The New North" a very attractive destination. More »
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Thousands of dinosaurs, including the cow-sized, horned Centrosaurs, used to roam the coastal lowlands of Alberta 77 million years ago. But scientists think a massive event killed them all, resulting in a 2.4 square km bonebed. More »
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Earlier this month, Canadian hikers stumbled across the carcass of this bizarre-looking creature. Now scientists think they know what it is. More »
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In 1964, archaeologist Thomas E. Lee discovered a 10.8-foot tall, 4,000 pound stone cross on the Arnaud River in far northern Quebec. Lee dubbed this sculpture "Thor's Hammer," as he assumed the monolith was of Viking origin. More »
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Lachlan Cranswick, an Australian nuclear scientist who worked at a research facility near his small hometown of Deep River, vanished under extremely mysterious circumstances a month ago. Now authorities have given up on the strange, tragic search for him. More »
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By this point, the idea of anyone other than Hugh Jackman as Wolverine seems like box office suicide, but he wasn't the first choice to play X-Men's breakout star. Learn about the also-rans and almost-weres. More »
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The University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon is known for its excellent science programs, and now the school is supporting good science fiction as well. Canadian scifi author Robert Sawyer, author of Hominids and Rollback, will become the first writer-in-residence at the Canadian Light Source, the university's world-class synchrotron (pictured). More »
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Though there's a snowstorm blowing in Saskatoon today, we had a nice gathering of nerds at the Broadway Roastery. Kirk (yes, that's his real name) even came up from Outlook to join us! And Scot took a bit of time off work to come by. Among other serious topics, we discussed which character in the JJ Abrams Star Trek movie should have been given the Starbuck gender-switch, and I thought probably Chekhov. More »
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Sometimes humans really do seem like nothing more than tangles of metal, bone, and hair attached a digital watches. That's the uneasy message of Canadian artist David Altmejd's sculptures, which have made him a controversial but popular artist over the past few years. A lot of his stuff is techno-grotesque, which you can see below, but his scariest pieces are the sleek, shiny ones. More »
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Leave it to the folks over in the Edmonton Paintball Forums to notice: Trailers for the new Wolverine movie have our favorite super-healing mutant in a U.S. military uniform rather than a Canadian one. Has Hollywood beaten the poutine out of Wolverine? Readers of the comics may remember that the Weapon X Program, which turned Wolverine into a super-soldier with an Adamantium skeleton, was based in Canada. Yeah, the United States was funneling money to the program, but it was still Canadian and so was Wolverine. Check out that comic book cover of him with a maple leaf on his face if you don't believe me. We hope that he's just wearing that U.S. uniform temporarily in the new movie, and that his proud Canadian heritage remains intact. [Wolverine Is No Longer Canadian :( via Edmonton Paintball Forums] More »
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Canada has at last entered the Zeppelin Age, and it looks as if Calgary, Alberta will be the first city to make the leap into an alternate history where people use giant, helium-filled balloons to move stuff around instead of trucks or trains. A Calgary-based company called SkyHook, working with Boeing, has developed what they call the Jess Heavy Lifter (JHL-40) or a "blimp on steroids." This is no pleasure cruiser, though. It's seriously mega, and will be used for transporting heavy loads in areas of northern Canada where there are no roads. More »
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If you're Canadian and want to spend a few months in space, then you could be in luck, eh. (No, I can't really believe that I went there, either. Sorry.) Our friends in the North are on the lookout for two good people who'd be interested in getting away from it all for six months, and the only qualifications necessary to apply are your nationality, a science degree and a head for heights. More »
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Yesterday William Gibson rolled into San Francisco to do a book signing for the paperback release of Spook Country, his recent novel about surveillance, augmented reality, dream politics, and advertising. The novel is also, incidentally, a fairly overt critique of the idea of "cyberspace," a term Gibson invented early in his career, and which several characters in Spook Country describe as something that has been surpassed by newer ideas. I caught up with Gibson at a coffee shop downtown, and we chatted about everything from Godzilla movies and draft-dodging, to the novel he's always dreamed of writing. More »
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Well, it's about time. Asteroids hitting Earth has been a big problem for life this planet since forever, and at last governments around the world have been united in their inability to give a shit. And they did it without Gort the giant robot forcing them! Next year, the Canadian Space Agency will launch the Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat), the first space-borne asteroid hunting device ever made. More »
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It looks like somebody photoshopped the Canadian prairies inside the red gasses of Jupiter, but this is an actual picture, untouched, of Earth. It's a "shelf cloud" lit up by early-morning light. Photographed from the Trans-Canada highway in Saskatchewan, this shelf cloud was most likely the bleeding edge of a storm. More »
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You can get a mod for Half Life called Toronto Conflict, for all those people who think the future of mass-mediated violence clearly lies north of the US border. [Boing Boing] More »
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In the vast, untapped oil sands of Alberta, Canada, Syncrude's upgrader looks like an industrial Martian base as it sucks oil out of the shale. There's are no spouts of black gold here — just bitumen, a viscous substance that has to be heated or diluted before it becomes liquid. The upgrader sits in an oil sand field that's almost half the size of Colorado in northern Alberta. Oil sand will probably become a huge source of energy for the world if those factory farms full of corn for Ethanol don't work out. AP Photo by Jeff McIntosh. More »
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