The popular herbal cold remedy Cold-FX is no better than a placebo a treating colds, and the manufacturer has known that for more than a decade, alleges a lawsuit before the B.C. Supreme Court. A 2004 trial conducted by Dr. Gerry Predy, a top Alberta public-health official, found that one of Canada’s most well-known cold and flu remedies was no …

Corus Entertainment is expanding into the live events business. “Corus Live” will start with a two-day country music festival in July that’s associated with its CMT specialty TV channel.

Legendary supermodel Cindy Crawford has reportedly announced that she is retiring from the modeling world soon!. The iconic ’90s supermodel reveals in an interview with United Airlines’s Rhapsody magazine that on her 50th birthday, on February 20th, it will the right time to step away — “Maybe not say goodbye,” she tells Rhapsody. “But move on.”

Tareena Shakil, A British mother who took her young son to Syria is beginning a six-year jail sentence after a judge concluded she had “embraced” Islamic State and was prepared to let her child become an Isis fighter. The 26-year-old fled her home in Birmingham in October 2014, telling her family she had booked a holiday. Instead, she took her …

Benoit Violier, who was named the best chef in the world two months ago, has been found dead in his home in Switzerland in an apparent suicide. Benoit Violier, 44, ran the Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in Crissier, near Lausanne, which earned three Michelin stars and came top of France’s La Liste ranking of the world’s top 1,000 restaurants.

Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) said on Monday that distracted driving is the traffic safety spotlight for the month of February. SGI is announcing its traffic focus for the month will be on distracted driving. It remains the number one factor of collisions in Saskatchewan and is one of the top contributing factors in fatal crashes.

The January 2014 flooding in the south-west and north-east of England was due to man-made climate change, say scientists from Oxford University. They say the stormiest period of weather the UK has experienced over the past 20 years occurred as greenhouse gases increased the risk of adverse weather. They found that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increased the risk of the …

Heart failure is a chronic, incurable condition that places a growing burden on hundreds of thousands of Canadians, the Heart and Stroke Foundation says in a new report. In heart failure, the heart muscle is damaged or weakened. Survivors are left breathless and fatigued. Some may develop swelling in the ankles and feet or chest pain.

A new Gallup poll finds billionaire Donald Trump the most un-liked candidate in 25 years. Or in the parlance of poll takers, he has the highest unfavorable ratings since Gallup began taking the poll. According to new polling from Gallup, an astonishing 60 percent of Americans view GOP frontrunner Donald Trump unfavorably. This number is higher than any unfavorable number …

Sarah Palin got angry on Monday during an interview on NBC’s The Today Show after hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie asked the former Alaska governor about her son’s arrest in January for domestic violence. “I want to ask you about something you mentioned on the campaign trail, which is the arrest of your son Track,” Savannah Guthrie said. “You …

Matthew Hickey, a retired Ohio police officer wants to purchase his longtime K-9 partner but the town says he’s going to have bid for him. By Sunday, a GoFundMe page set up to help buy Ajax when the city takes it to auction had raised more than $50,000. Recently retired Marietta officer Matt Hickey has offered to buy the dog …