Jamie Gilt, 31, an outspoken advocate for gun rights who even ran a Facebook page called Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense, dedicated to her love for guns, and featuring statements such as, “My right to protect my child with my gun trumps your fear of my gun,” was shot by her 4-year-old son this week. Florida mom was driving to …

A woman is dead after the windstorm knocked over a tree and it fell onto her Port Moody home. Jill Calder died when a tree was blown against  her home during this morning’s strong winds, killing her while she slept. Port Moody’s mayor Mike Clay says Jill’s family can expect support from the neighbourhood.

A sewer back-up took out power on four floors and damaged an important scanner at the University of Manitoba’s Buhler Centre. The PET scanner was damaged in the outage. It is used to detect and monitor conditions such as epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. “We fully understand the seriousness of the temporary loss of our PET (positron emission tomography) CT …

Roku, Inc. today announced that the first 4K UHD Insignia Roku TV models are available for purchase exclusively from BestBuy.com starting today and will be available in Best Buy stores nationwide early next month. They come in 43-, 50- and 55-inch screen sizes at retails of $399, $499 and $649, respectively. They feature quad-core processor, 802.11ac dual-band Wi-Fi to stream …

Hillary Clinton has spoken about music in a Miami interview today (March 10), calling Adele her “go to voice.” Hillary Clinton sat down with SiriusXM and talked about a hypothetical radio show, talking through what she’d play if she were put in charge. Clinton heaped praise on the 27-year-old British singer, saying, “I just have a huge admiration for her …

A penguin named Dindim swims around 8000 kilometres every year to visit his best friend, a fisherman who saved his life. Rio de Janeiro resident Joao Pereira de Souza did not expect to make a lifelong friend when he rescued a struggling, oil-slicked penguin from the beach years ago – but that’s exactly what happened. Now Dindim swims thousands of …

It’s time to spring forward again as daylight saving time begins this weekend. Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 13. The official start is 2 a.m., but conveniently all of your digital devices — smartphones, tablets, computers, cable television — will change automatically. You will have to adjust that analog kitchen clock or bedside alarm before you go to …

Gum disease has been linked to a more rapid decline in people with Alzheimer’s disease. The condition is common in the elderly and is potentially worsened by dementia, as it makes people less likely to look after their teeth and gums. Periodontitis or gum disease is common in older people and may become more common in Alzheimer’s disease because of …

A wild mountain lion known as P-22 is suspected of breaking into Los Angeles zoo and mauling a koala to death. Zoo surveillance cameras showed lion P-22 prowling around the zoo the night of the koala’s violent death, zoo director John Lewis told a news conference. “Unfortunately, these types of incidents happen when we have a zoo in such close …

A survey published in The Journal of Sex Research shows your paraphilic desires, which are defined as abnormal, are actually common among men and women. Scientists from the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres found that nearly half of Canadian adults surveyed have an interest in at least one of the desires that are labelled as “anomalous” – deviating from what …

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London have found the oldest fossils of the familiar pine tree that dominates Northern Hemisphere forests today. The 140-million-year-old fossils (dating from the Cretaceous ‘Age of the Dinosaurs’) are exquisitely preserved as charcoal, the result of burning in wildfires. The fossils suggest that pines co-evolved with fire at …