A black therapist named Charles Kinsey was shot by the police while caring for his autistic patient in Miami on Monday. And the incident was caught on video. The 47-year-old, unarmed black man works with people with disabilities. At the time of the incident he was trying to get his 27-year-old patient back to a facility safely. Authorities said the …

Snapchat, a 5-year-old social media innovator, has recently announced its partnership with Bitmoji, a personalized emoji creation application. Bitmoji helps create personalized packs of stickers designed to resemble the user, thus making them more appealing than regular ones. Users will be able to send snaps with Bitmojis or use them inside conversations. But before they can send Bitmoji, users would …

Metro Vancouver Transit Police are urging Pokemon Go players to make sure they are playing the game safely after a young man jumped onto the Canada Line tracks at Vancouver City Centre station on Tuesday. Two young men were reportedly on the platform of the VCC-Clark station yesterday when one decided to jump onto the tracks with his phone while …

Great white sharks off South Africa are in danger of dying out as nets, poachers, pollution and the depletion of fish stocks eradicate the predators. Dr Sara Andreotti and her team, Dr Craig O’Connell and Michael Rutzen, have developed the Sharksafe Barrier, which is an environmentally-friendly artificial magnetic kelp. They have built a small test site in what’s known as …

Scientists in Canada and the US have developed a new type of vaccine which has had success against the zika virus in lab testing. Université Laval’s Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDRC) and Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval (CHU) are proud to announce that the first clinical study for a Zika vaccine in Canada is set to begin …

A stunning new map of the brain could revolutionise our understand of how it works, researchers say the new models have already uncovered 100 previously unknown regions of the brain. “In some cases, we identified a patch of cortex that probably could be subdivided, but we couldn’t confidently draw borders with our current data and techniques. In the future, researchers …

“Pokémon Go,” which is currently available in over 30 countries, including the U.S., Canada and much of Europe, was expected to be released in Japan on Wednesday. But, the companies behind the game have decided to delay the launch in the country, a media report said Wednesday, citing a source close to the matter. Nintendo’s shares suffered a rare bad …

Just one day after a woman was mauled by a grizzly bear near Cochrane, another woman said to be in her mid 20s was attacked by a brown bear in Canmore. EMS rushed to the scene at 7:30 p.m., and the woman is now at the Canmore General Hospital in stable condition. Paramedics say she was calm and conversing with …

Crystal Harris Hefner has gone to extreme lengths to get better. The wife of Hugh Hefner has had her breast implants removed because of how unwell they were making her feel. Playboy model Crystal Hefner has taken to Facebook to share the real reason why she went under the knife in June earlier this year. The third wife of the …

Donald Trump didn’t build the 6-inch wall surrounding his Hollywood Walk of Fame star, but we know who paid for it: Plastic Jesus. “Hollywood sight-seers on the famous walk of fame were confronted with an unusual edition to Trump’s Famous Star. Someone had built a 6? tall grey concrete wall around it. Complete with ‘Keep out’ signs and topped with …

A Markham couple has been charged for leaving a child in a locked, hot car in a parking lot while they went shopping. It happened in a Markham Costco parking lot on Tuesday, when the temperature was close to 24 degrees. Police say someone spotted a two-month-old baby girl in a car seat in a locked vehicle. The windows were …