The 2024 total solar eclipse has exited North America after passing through parts of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Canadians and visitors gathered in all six provinces to witness the celestial event, which won't be seen in this country again until 2044.
The 2024 total solar eclipse has exited North America after passing through parts of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , Nova Scotia and Newfoundland .
Len Seals, a NASA optical engineer, said he travelled to Montreal from Washington, D.C., for a chance to see the rare cosmic phenomenon with his wife and two children. Scott Rhind, who travelled to Niagara Falls from just south of Detroit, said he was holding out for a break in the cloud cover over the city.Under mostly cloudy skies in Kingston, Ont., a man from Toronto said he was mulling a drive further east to Montreal, where the forecast called for clear skies.
Rogers said he and his family were eager to experience the eclipse again, this time framed by the iconic Niagara Falls, after they viewed it together in 2017 from their home state of Georgia. This celestial dance, in which the moon, the sun and the Earth align, is possible thanks to some miraculous stage setting. The moon is about 400 times smaller than the sun, but it's also about 400 times closer to the Earth -- making both appear to be the same size in the sky.
"That's very interesting for scientists, but I think it's also very moving for us, for the reason that it's one of those rare times when we have a direct connection with what's going on in space," said Saint-Jacques, who was part of a 204-day mission to the International Space Station starting in 2018, the longest Canadian mission to date.
Canada's telecommunication companies have also been preparing their networks for a surge in demand in areas along the eclipse's path. Companies said they would deploy additional infrastructure, such as portable cell towers, to certain areas to prevent possible disruptions. Canada's military will take a bigger role in the North over the next two decades as climate change and increasingly aggressive foes threaten Arctic sovereignty, says a new defence policy document released Monday.The trail for a Saskatchewan man accused of abducting his daughter to prevent her from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 began Monday at the Court of King's Bench in Regina with the selection of a 14 person jury.
Donald Trump asked a New York appeals court on Monday to reverse his gag order and move his hush money criminal trial out of Manhattan in an eleventh-hour bid for a delay just a week before it is scheduled to start.Protesters in southern Mexico set the state government building afire Monday and torched at least a dozen cars in the parking lot.
There's still no standard test to detect pancreatic cancer early. Scientists are working to change that When Irina Novoselsky contemplates social media, she's certain the next decade won't be anything like the last because consumers increasingly allow the online world to shape nearly every aspect of their lives.Some Canadians are feeling a little more optimistic about their debt with the prospect of interest rate cuts on the horizon, said MNP Ltd.
Mounties in North Vancouver say they arrested a man who was “manipulating” a replica handgun near a public library over the weekend.Though the skies clouded the total solar eclipse as it peaked through Toronto, several onlookers still donned their certified solar shades to view the 'once-in-a-lifetime' celestial event.
Takeoff: WestJet increasing flights from Winnipeg to Montreal and Ottawa, adds direct Nashville routeMonday's solar eclipse was only partial in Saskatchewan, but with proper eyewear it was still possible to see the moon crossing paths with the sun during the early afternoon hours.
Searchers are scouring a remote section of northwestern Vancouver Island after a kayak was recovered over the weekend with no sign of its 21-year-old occupant.B.C. man sentenced for 'horrific, cowardly' beating death of 78-year-old man
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