Parents, youngsters and wanna-be anglers everywhere are invited to experience Canada’s amazing outdoors! National Fishing Week is a week-long celebration of recreational fishing in Canada that will be held July 2 to July 10. With more than 1 million lakes, rivers and streams plus three oceans, Canada is one of the most diverse natural environments on the planet.

It is the star of its own 90s television series, and holds the current production car lap record at the Laguna Seca Raceway with a time of 1:28.65. We are of course referring to the iconic Dodge Viper, which will not only celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2016, but also its final year of production. To commemorate this bittersweet milestone, …

The Abbotsford police department has launched its annual driving excuses road safety campaign on Twitter. Abbotsford Police Constable Ian MacDonald says the origin of the campaign was to try to engage people on the serious topic of road safety from a different angle, and a reminder that not even police can be serious 24-hours a day.

Someone’s closet just got far more lively: The signature ruffled shirt and black-and-white blazer Prince wore in the film Purple Rain were sold at auction for $96,000 each to unnamed buyers. The Guardian reports that the New Romantic-style ivory silk shirt and a black-and-white blazer from the 1984 film sold for $96,000 each at a Profiles in History sale in …

NASA has a special way to celebrate the 240th Birthday of America. Today, Fourth of July, NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter after an almost five-year trip through space. Juno launched back in August of 2011, setting out on a 1.8 billion mile trip to the solar system’s largest planet.

A 19-year-old tourist has severely injured his left foot, after an explosion in New York’s Central Park. According to the FDNY, a call came in around 10:53 a.m. at Fifth Avenue and E. 68th St. for a major injury. The victim has a “possible amputation,” the FDNY said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in “serious but stable condition,” police …

The earth is nearly 94.5 million miles away from the sun today. That’s the farthest we get in our annual, slightly elliptical, trip around the sun. Perihelion, when the earth is closest to the sun, occurs in early January. Given that it is a lot warmer today than in early January, it is fair to say that distance from the …

The father of 2-year-old Lane Graves – who was dragged into the water and drowned by an alligator near Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida – has told officials a second gator was involved in the tragic attack. The information was released via a public records request made by the Orlando Sentinel. The records included conversations Reedy …

Dr. Michael Schulenberg and Dr. Howard Kornfeld — the two doctors who treated Prince before his death — are now the focus of a criminal investigation, according to reports on Friday. The FBI, DEA and Carver County District Attorney’s Office in Minnesota are investigating Schulenberg and Kornfeld, over meds prescribed to Prince. Prince died on 21 April 2016 following a …

Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor, and author of Night, died on Saturday. He was 87 years old. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s death on its website on Saturday. The Israeli center for Holocaust research, Yad Vashem, tweeted a message informing about the death of the writer and activist.

Shanynthia Gardner was charged with multiple offenses overnight in connection with the stabbing deaths of her four children in southeast Shelby County, Tenn. The killings, in Memphis, Tennessee, have been described as an ‘act of evil’. Shanynthia Gardner, 29, has been charged with four counts of murder.