Canadians are already the world leaders in consuming online video, and according to a report fromThe Globe and Mail, the livestreaming of Friday’s royal wedding could push those numbers even higher. And that doesn’t even take Netflix into full account. Once the impact of Netflix’s arrival into The Great White North has been completely assessed, Canada will lead the world in online video consumption by a landslide. Canadians have led the world in online video consumption for the past couple of years, watching videos more and longer online than anywhere else on the planet....

Carried on a helium balloon the size of a football stadium, a revolutionary new telescope could forever change the way we carry out our explorations of the Cosmos. Flying at an altitude of 40 km (25 miles) over the ground, above 99.7 percent of the atmosphere of Earth, SuperBIT would carry out observations free of the vast majority of the atmosphere which can affect astronomical observations. Designers from Durham, Toronto, and Princeton University, along with colleagues from the Canadian Space Agency, hope to deploy SuperBIT in April 2022 for the first time in full operating conditions....

In arecent reportfrom Library and Archives Canada, it was announced that over the next seven years the records of Canada’s heritage will be going completely digital. While this might not sound wildly exciting to you at first, it does come with some perks for Canadian residents who care about genealogy. Going digital means it will be easier than ever to discover your roots because all of the information held by LAC (like all of the census forms) will be available in searchable databases, giving Canadians a really simple way to track down their ancestors....

We’ve reported earlier on theiOS marketplace in Canada, and it’s no surprise that Canadians’ love affair with apps has turned into more of a long-standing relationship. I mean, there’s even a television show that focuses on them. App Centraldescribes itself as a “weekly television series exploring the creative and explosive world of mobile apps” that airs on BNN & CP24. It is hosted by Amber MacArthur and Michael Hainsworth, with tech reporter Kris Abel also lending a hand to the proceedings....

If you’ve been following theCanadian ISP dramaover the last few weeks, you’d know that Canadian residents are facing the harsh reality that the Internet will be metered by every ISP in the country. In short, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) made a decision that forces smaller ISPs to charge customers usage-based billing, and they gave the larger ISP’s (Rogers, Bell, Shaw) the ability to set the rates. While nothing has really changed for customers of the major ISP’s whom already have limited use of the Internet, it meant that no one in Canada was legally allowed to sell unlimited Internet to its customers....