The next innovation, developed in 1967, continues to make the world a far safer place for children around the world.

Dr. Henri Breault, a pediatrician from Windsor developed the "Palm 'n Turn" safety cap for use on medicine bottles & containers in...(read more)

This week we celebrate a uniquely Canadian, winter-related innovation...Ringette!

Ringette was invented in North Bay in 1963 by Sam Jacks and is now played by over 30,000 Canadians from coast to coast to coast. While Canadian in origin, ringette is now played in...(read more)

Another week, another innovation credited to a Canadian! The Java programming language was developed by James Gosling in the early 1990's and its first public implementation was released in 1996 by Sun Microsystems. In 2004, he was elected a member of the National...(read more)

The genesis of this week's innovation came out of work that was undertaken for the production of two movies shown at Montreal's Expo 67.

The IMAX Corporation and it's associated cinema projection standards were the result of work done by Graeme...(read more)

It's hard to believe that something as ubiquitous in our lives as search engines are today, were only developed around 3 decades ago.

Leading the way was "Archie" first developed in 1986 by Alan Emtage, a post-graduate student at McGill University in...(read more)

Here is an innovation that many of us are unaware of, yet benefits us greatly, as we go about our daily lives.

Dr. Lorne Elias' work in the area of explosives detection technology led to the development of the portable Explosives Vapour Detector (EVD-1) in the early...(read more)