Nissan is using the first day of April in 2016 to show the world what its NV3500 cargo van can really do. The short film, which includes a terrible April Fool’s joke at the beginning, is worth watching because it shows Formula Drift ace, Chris Forsberg, sliding the huge van surprisingly gracefully around a Ken Block Gymkhana-esque circuit.

A study led by scientists at McMaster University could have significant impacts on prevention treatments for millions of people around the world at risk of developing heart disease. The research team from the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences studied more than 12,000 patients from 21 countries to evaluate drugs that can prevent cardiovascular …

An 8-year-old boy from the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros has been in a transit zone in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport for 10 days after trying to enter France illegally. The unnamed child carrying just a Spiderman backpack was arrested by customs officials at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport on 21 March. He was detained in an airport holding …

Cara to buy the Quebec-based fast-food rotisserie chicken chain for C$537 million. Cara Operations Limited, the Ontario-based company that owns restaurant brands like Swiss Chalet, Kelsey’s Neighbourhood Bar & Grill, Harvey’s, Milestones Grill and Bar, and Montana’s Cookhouse, purchased Quebec’s iconic St-Hubert chicken brand today for just over half a billion dollars. The Wall Street Journal reports that the juggernaut …

Rogers Communications said it will be introducing Internet of Things (IoT) ‘as a service’ to simplify the process of managing complex IoT systems. Two of the first systems being offered as a service include Farm & Food Monitoring and Level Monitoring. Rogers will deliver these exclusively with blueRover, a Canadian-based provider. Wireless networks will provide the primary impetus to the …

Coffee consumption may lower the risk of colorectal cancer, according to findings from a new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Scientists from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and others examined more than 5,100 men and women who had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer within the past six months. They also inspected an additional 4,000 men and …

The Rosetta orbiter, as part of a mission to conduct the most extensive research on any comet ever, has captured a stunning – both visually and scientifically – picture of a comet in line with the sun. The Philae comet lander may be dead, but its valiant mothership lives on. Rosetta recently ventured away from the comet to study its …

RCMP said the body of a woman who was reported missing March 22 was found Friday in a wooded area southwest of Edmonton. 23-year-old Kelsey Nicole Kramer was believed to be heading home from Drumheller back on Saturday, March 19th, when she disappeared.

Astronomers Say That Lasers Can Hide Our Earth From Deadly Aliens. A simple laser beam could disrupt aliens’ observations of Earth, making it look like there’s nobody home on the third rock from the sun, a new study suggests. Professor David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University in New York, has said the relatively simple concept could make the world …

Scientists have, for the first time, mapped a nearby “super-Earth” exoplanet to find that one hemisphere is almost completely molten rock, while the other half is almost completely solid. The super-Earth — which is a classification used for any planet with a mass 1 to 10 times greater than that of our home planet — is named 55 Cancri e …

A touching video showing a Huntington Beach police officer playing hopscotch with a homeless girl while another policeman makes housing arrangements for her mother has gone viral. Officer Pricer from Huntington Beach Police met the girl and her mother after responding to a report about a suspicious vehicle parked on the street in California in the US.