News tagged with province of quebec

Hoping for mining boom, Canada opens last frontier

Dropping beneath low-lying clouds, a float plane circles a rocky landscape on the edge of the Arctic Circle grooved by the last ice age eight millennia ago and since then bathed by hundreds of rivers and lakes.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 25, 2011 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 12

The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (w/Video)

On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 13, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (10) | 1