GOP candidate lineup announced for Fox Business Network debate. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina will not appear on the primetime stage for the Republican Party’s sixth presidential debate later this week.

China – Grindr, the dating and hookup app for gay and bisexual men, has just received millions of dollars in investment from a Chinese technology firm. The company, Beijing Kunlun Tech, which is run by billionaire Zhou Yahui, paid $93 million (£64 million) for a 60 per cent controlling stake in the company – a significant sum for what is …

Northern Health has confirmed they are monitoring an increase in Hepatitis A cases in Dawson Creek, along with the BC Centre for Disease Control. Health officials, along with the BC Centre for Disease Control. are monitoring an increase in cases and say they’re investigating the source for what they call a “seemingly unrelated clusters” recently discovered.

British Columbia’s high housing costs are on the government’s radar as it prepares to table its budget next month, but Premier Christy Clark is ruling out luxury or speculation taxes to cool Vancouver’s hot market. “We want to be really careful about unintended consequences,” says Clark. “But we’re thinking of a range of solutions…as we put together our budget, this …

“The Walking Dead” actress Danai Gurira has joined the cast of Tupac biopic “All Eyez On Me,” Canada journal has learned. According to Deadline Hollywood, the 37-year-old actress will be playing the part of Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur.

Technology giant Apple has acquired an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up that uses facial recognition technology to analyse people’s emotions. Apple can now use Emotient’s facial expression recognition technology to scan people’s faces and identify how they’re feeling in any given moment. Emotient says by picking up on subtle facial clues, its software can tell whether people are feeling joy, fear, …

A Winnipeg researcher’s work has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on predicting the risk of kidney failure. Dr. Navdeep Tangri developed a risk equation using Canadian patient data and his work will be adopted globally. “As a kidney doctor, I found so many of my patients were coming to my clinic and asking the …

A lifesaving cancer treatment program is getting a boost from the B.C. government. Premier Christy Clark has pledged $3 million in funding for the BC Cancer Agency, $2 million of which will go to the agency’s Personalized Onco–Genomics program, also known as POG. “We are going to change lives,” said Clark, whose mother died of brain cancer after surviving breast …

Entire car gets frozen in ice as hazardous weather hits Lake Erie near Buffalo. A lake effect snow band dumped about two inches of snow per hour on the region, forcing schools to close and resulting in near whiteout conditions on the roads, WKBW-TV reported.

On 15 August 1977, radio astronomers using the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University picked up a powerful signal from space. Some believe it was our first interception of an alien broadcast. Now it seems something closer to home may have been the source: a pair of passing comets. The two comets 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) were …

In a Canadian first, a multi-disciplinary team, led by Dr. Steven McCabe, has successfully completed the country’s first transplant of the upper limb. During a procedure lasting approximately 14 hours, a team of 18 surgeons attached the forearm and hand matched from a donor to a patient who had been evaluated as a suitable candidate. This required the cooperation of …