The Revenant topped the Academy Award nominations Thursday with a dozen nominations. And the Vancouver film industry shared in its success, with four local people being nominated for Oscars. Cameron Waldbauer was nominated in visual effects, Chris Duesterdiek in sound mixing, Robert Pandini in makeup and hairstyling and Hamish Purdy in production design. The film also earned Oscar nominations for …

Just days after revealing the Titan Warrior, Nissan is putting another Warrior on the front lines. Unveiled at the Montreal International Auto Show, the Rogue Warrior braves the Canadian winter with a secret weapon: a full snow track system that turns it into a crossover snow machine. With warriors like these, Nissan’s army will be able to wage war on …

Chipotle is closing all of its stores for a few hours on Feb. 8 as all staff members take part in a meeting to discuss new food safety measures and company policies following the six food poisoning outbreaks tied to the company last year. Following successive food poisoning outbreaks last year, spokesman Chris Arnold, told The Chicago Tribune the meeting …

U.S. and Honduran archaeologists have begun excavations at a mysterious site on Honduras’ Caribbean coast that may be the near-mythical “White City” ruins. Work that began on Wednesday has so far unearthed about 60 stone and ceramic fragments and other artefacts. The site, also known as the City of the Monkey God, is in Honduras’ jungle-covered Mosquito coastal region.

Salem Witch Trials Execution Site Found, And It’s Behind A Walgreens. A team of scholars has verified the exact site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the infamous 1692 witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. The Gallows Hill Project has carried out five years of research using court records, ground-penetrating radar and aerial photographs to locate the spot, a rocky …

Anne Swaney was found murdered in Belize. Autopsy results determined that she was strangled. Anne Swaney, 39, was reported missing on Thursday. Her body was found in a river on Friday. According to a report in the Belize News, Swaney suffered injuries to her head, and investigators found bruises around her neck. According to the report, authorities there believe Swaney …

The Dream Chaser space plane that lands on a runway like an aeroplane and launches with the help of a rocket will join the duo of privately operated space capsules – SpaceX’s reusable Dragon and Orbital ATK’s disposable Cygnus. NASA awarded contracts valued at several billion dollars Jan. 14 to three companies, including one newcomer, for commercial cargo deliveries to …

Canadian singer Celine Dion has lost a brother also to cancer, a family spokesman said Saturday. Daniel Dion was 59. His death comes two days after the death of Céline Dion’s husband and long-time manager, René Angélil, after a long battle with throat cancer.

A Laval man is among the dead following an attack Thursday by Islamic State extremists in Jakarta. Tahar Amer-Ouali ran a hearing clinic in the Indonesian capital for several years. The father of five was an audiologist with three clinics in the Montreal area. A pioneer in the field of hearing aids.

A Vancouver company is revamping its holiday policy, giving their employees unlimited paid vacation. BuildDirect, a Vancouver-based website that sells home improvement and building materials at wholesale prices, unveiled the plan earlier this week. “We ask people to deliver a lot of aggressive results and we feel like that needs to be balanced with taking a break,” said Heidi Rolston, …

Planned Parenthood announced Thursday that it has filed a federal lawsuit against the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind controversial undercover videos that raised allegations that the nation’s largest abortion provider is trafficking aborted fetal body parts. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco against the Center for Medical Progress, alleges there was conspiracy and fraud among …