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What’s happening today
😜 It’s April 1 and whatever prank you’re thinking of, it’s not as amusing as you think.
🚀 Canadians across the country are assembling today to watch the Artemis II launch, which is set to send humans back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
The first two-hour launch window opens at 6:24 p.m. ET, with a six-day launch window running through April 6.
If there are no problems today, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen of London, Ont., will serve as the mission specialist for Artemis II and become the first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit. The Canadian Press has more here.
Photographers set up remote cameras near NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Chris O’Meara / The Associated Press)
Today’s must-read
Convicted sex offender and former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has filed a lawsuit over a failed prosecution in Manitoba’s provincial court last fall, claiming he’s suffered as a result of officials abusing the process of the justice system.
Nygard had been set to stand trial on allegations he sexually assaulted and forcibly confined a woman, who was then 20, at his former corporate headquarters in Winnipeg in 1993, but the charges against him were stayed in October.
The judge on the case ruled his right to a fair trial had been breached because of lost evidence. Erik Pindera has the story.
Peter Nygard (Cole Burston / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright (?) side
When an invisible entity making up 85 per cent of the universe’s mass stumps the greatest scientific minds of our time, awe is an understandable response.
Physicists call it “ dark matter,” a substance they describe as the cosmic glue, the scaffolding, a web that uses gravity to corral, shape and hold together stars, planets and galaxies. Yet nobody knows exactly what it is.
(Peter Hamlin / The Associated Press illustration)
Dark matter’s existence is only inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter. Together with dark energy — a mysterious force causing the universe to expand at an accelerated rate — they are the biggest scientific mysteries of our time.
The worlds of science and faith are not as separate as they might seem. Many scientists have expressed how studying the majesty of the cosmos can be complementary rather than conflicting with their faith or spiritual practice. The Associated Press has more here.
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