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Everything about Canada on 360n60: 2 news, 2 history, 8 dates in history. Each told in 60 words.
News · 2
- News · 30 October 2026
Canada and the EU launch an 'Alliance for the Future'
Canada and the European Union launched an 'Alliance for the Future' at a summit in Montreal on 29 and 30 October. They agreed to define, by their 2027 summit, an 'ever-closer association' of Canada to the EU, short of full membership. Prime Minister Mark Carney called it a step towards Canada becoming the EU's first associate member.
- News · 29 October 2026
Spacewalkers give the space station a power upgrade
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk spent 7 hours and 11 minutes outside the International Space Station on 29 October, installing and unrolling a new solar array. It is the seventh of eight. When the last one goes up, in a spacewalk planned for 5 November, the station will have up to 30% more power.
History · 2
- History · 16 September 1987
The world agrees to protect the ozone layer
On 16 September 1987, countries signed the Montreal Protocol, agreeing to phase out chemicals that were destroying the ozone layer, which shields life from the Sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. It became the first UN treaty signed by every country in the world. The ozone layer is now slowly healing and is expected to recover by about 2066.
- History · 12 December 1901
Marconi receives the first radio signal across the Atlantic
On 12 December 1901, at Signal Hill in Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi heard three faint clicks through his earphone: the Morse code letter S, sent by radio from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, about 3,500 km away. It showed that radio waves could cross an ocean, and it began the age of long-distance wireless communication.
On this day · 8
- On this day · 16 September 1987
The Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer is signed
On 16 September 1987, countries signed the Montreal Protocol, agreeing to phase out chemicals that were thinning the ozone layer, which shields life from the Sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. Every country later joined. The ozone layer is now slowly healing.
- On this day · 25 September 1956
The first transatlantic telephone cable opens
On 25 September 1956, TAT-1, the first telephone cable under the Atlantic, opened between Scotland and Newfoundland. It could carry 36 calls at once, far clearer than radio. Today, fibre-optic cables under the oceans carry almost all international internet traffic.
- On this day · 11 January 1922
Insulin is first given to a patient
On 11 January 1922, in Toronto, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became the first person with diabetes to receive an insulin injection. After the extract was purified, his health improved dramatically. Insulin turned diabetes from a fatal disease into a manageable one, and Frederick Banting and John Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize.
- On this day · 27 July 1921
Banting and Best isolate insulin
On 27 July 1921, at the University of Toronto, Frederick Banting and his student Charles Best isolated insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar. Within months, it saved the life of a boy with diabetes. Banting shared the Nobel Prize and sold the patent for one dollar so it could help everyone.
- On this day · 12 December 1901
Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal
On 12 December 1901, at Signal Hill in Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi heard three faint clicks, the Morse code letter 'S', sent by radio from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, about 3,500 kilometres away. It proved that radio waves could cross the ocean.
- On this day · 16 August 1896
Gold is found in the Klondike
On 16 August 1896, gold was found at Bonanza Creek, near the Klondike River in northwest Canada. When news reached the outside world the next year, about 100,000 people set off for the region in the Klondike Gold Rush, though only a small number became rich.
- On this day · 18 November 1883
Railways create standard time zones
On 18 November 1883, railways in the United States and Canada switched to standard time zones. Before then, towns kept their own local time, which made timetables confusing. The day was nicknamed 'the day of two noons'. A year later, the world chose Greenwich as the prime meridian.
- On this day · 1 July 1867
Canada becomes a self-governing dominion
On 1 July 1867, the British North America Act came into force, uniting the colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into a new self-governing country, the Dominion of Canada. Other provinces joined later. Canadians celebrate the date every year as Canada Day.