Kevin Vickers has been celebrated for a second time after tackling a protestor who started chanting “insult” at a service to commemorate British soldiers killed a century ago. Kevin Vickers, who previously served as a Mountie and Parliament’s sergeant-at-arms, has now apparently added freelance tackler to his résumé. Kevin Vickers was attending a ceremony held in a graveyard in Dublin …

Hanako, the world’s loneliest elephant, has died. For more than 60 years, Hanako had lived in a tiny concrete enclosure at Inokashira Park Zoo in Tokyo, Japan. Her enclosure had no grass or trees, and she hadn’t seen another elephant in decades. Born in 1947 in Thailand, the female elephant was sent as a gift to Ueno Zoological Gardens in …

Southwest producers have nearly wrapped seeding operations for the 2016 crop according to the May 17 to 23 Crop Report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture. Seeding is most advanced in the southwest at 90 per-cent, followed by 87 per-cent in the southeast, 84 per-cent in the northwest, 75 per-cent in the northeast and 68 per-cent in the east-central region. …

All mentions of Australia were deleted from a major United Nations report on climate change after the Australian government protested that the report could put tourists off. The report contained chapters on Australia’s deteriorating Great Barrier Reef – seriously damaged by warming seas — and environmental issues concerning Tasmania’s fabled old-growth forests and the Northern Territory’s Kakadu wilderness areas which …

Come 9th of June, Lenovo is expected to unveil new Motorola phones, but could there be more to these phones than being mere upgrades to last year’s flagships? Last week, Motorola posted a video showing off some Razr clamshell phones in anticipation of the June 9 event. Today, the company shed some light on what its Razr flip phones have …

It’s another quiet week for new releases, but the Wii U is staying relevant this week with the debut of both StarTropics games on the Virtual Console. StarTropics, which first came out in 1990, had the rare distinction of being only released in Europe and the U.S., not Japan. Still doesn’t make up for all those games we never got, …

Researchers have theorized that whatever killed the dinosaurs didn’t make it all the way to the poles, but a new study found convincing evidence that at least one polar region was not a safe hiding place. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the new study’s analysis of more than 6,000 marine fossils found populations of marine animals living around Antarctica …

Captain America is now basically a Nazi and everyone is freaking out, Marvel Comics unveiled the shocking twist on Wednesday in the pages of Captain America: Steve Rogers #1, in which Cap utters the phrase “Hail Hydra.” In the first issue of “Captain America: Steve Rogers”, Steve and his mother were recruited to join the nefarious organization in the 1920s. …

Ex-Montreal cop Stéfanie Trudeau has been handed a 12-month suspended sentence and will do 60 hours of community service for assaulting a man four years ago. “I find this case to be unjust and unfair,” Trudeau told Quebec Court Judge Daniel Bédard before he sentenced her Thursday afternoon at the Montreal courthouse. At that point, Bédard had made it abundantly …

An American torpedo bomber lost during World War II has been found off the Pacific nation of Palau by researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. An American aircraft, a TBM-1C Avenger, missing since July 1944 was recently located in the waters surrounding the Pacific Island nation of Palau by Project RECOVER—a collaborative effort to combine the most …

An international team of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has discovered a new class of galaxies. Dubbed as “red geysers”, that harbors supermassive black hole winds so hot and energetic it prevents the formation of new stars. According to a new research published in the journal Nature, low-energy supermassive black holes in a class of galaxies known …