Canada

Four terminally ill cancer patients in Canada have been granted a special exemption to legally possess and consume psilocybin. They are the first in the country, outside a clinical trial, allowed to do so since the psychedelic was made illegal in 1974.

Researchers in Canada have diagnosed an advanced, malignant bone cancer – in a dinosaur. Using human diagnostic techniques, a team examined a large growth on the animal’s leg bone, marking the first time such a diagnosis has been made for a dinosaur.

Herzog & de Meuron has designed a slender new skyscraper for Toronto, Canada, that would be the country's tallest if realized. Named 1200 Bay Street, it would contain retail space, a restaurant, and luxury apartments.

Morphosis offers an interesting take on an office building with its Store Support Centre for Lululemon. If realized as planned, the Vancouver project will feature significant greenery and will be defined by its eye-catching energy-efficient facade.

Dialog, along with EllisDon and Smoke Architecture, has been commissioned to design the Centennial College A Block Expansion Building. Due for completion in 2023, it's described as Canada's first zero-carbon, mass timber higher-education building.

Music and architecture often meet, such as when Beyoncé inspired a skyscraper and Kanye West's attempts to get his affordable housing project off the ground. Now Pharrell Williams has helped design a pair of high-rise residential towers for Toronto.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most intriguing mysteries of modern astronomy. Now a whopping eight new repeating signals have been detected.

​Less than two weeks after it proclaimed a ban on single-use plastic items, Canada has now taken another step toward protecting the environment, by banning the import and export of shark fins. It is the first of the G20 group of industrialized and developing nations to do so.

Joining a growing contingent of lawmakers around the world, Canada's government is making moves to reduce plastic waste with bans in the pipeline concerning a range of single-use items.

A consortium led by BAE Systems has been tapped to provide the Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) next generation of frigates based on Britain's Type 26 warship as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy with BAE providing the variant modifications.

The CHIME telescope has picked up 13 unexplained radio signals coming from beyond the Milky Way. These fast radio bursts are part of one of the strangest mysteries of modern astronomy, but the new detections could help unlock their source, thanks to a rare one that seems to be repeating.

Snøhetta and Dialog drew inspiration from local Chinook cloud arch formations when designing Canada's Calgary Central Library. The building is situated in a very challenging plot that incorporates an existing light rail track and wows visitors with an eye-catching timber-lined atrium.