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Singer Jojo is opening up about how her record label made her lose weight quickly by making her take dietary supplements. In a new interview with PopSugar, the “Too Little, Too Late” songstress addressed the pressures many young women in the music industry are facing, including weight loss.

People with a wheat sensitivity, but not celiac disease or a wheat allergy, are not imagining symptoms they feel after eating wheat, according to a new research. “Our study shows that the symptoms reported by individuals with this condition are not imagined, as some people have suggested,” said study co-author Peter H. Green, MD, the Phyllis and Ivan Seidenberg Professor …

Canadian Armed Forces warn Pokemon Go users to stay off bases. The Department of National Defence says military police have responded to incidents this month of people trespassing on Canadian Armed Forces bases in Ontario and Nova Scotia while playing the popular smartphone game. A spokesperson said military police have reported “Pokemon Go occurrences” at three bases — CFB Borden …

Microsoft is working to fix some Surface Pro 3 tablets that have been plagued with extremely short battery lives. The good news, though, is that they should be able to fix it with a software update. Over the last few months, there have been scattered claims that some Surface Pro 3 systems are suffering from extremely poor battery life. Some …

A dramatic video that shows a white truck crashing into concrete medians and veering off the roadway while travelling at high speeds on Highway 417 has led to the arrest of an Ottawa man on drunk driving charges. Rocco Michelli was driving home from work around 6:45 a.m. Friday when he spotted the driver bumping into the curb. His dash …

Tech YouTuber Austin Evans posted a video comparing a supposed dummy unit of the iPhone 7, or whatever it’ll be called, next to the current iPhone 6s. The video reinforces the majority of rumors surrounding the iPhone 7’s redesigned antenna lines, larger camera, and the possibility that it won’t come with a headphones jack.

Developed by a research team at the University of Toronto with the support of Mitacs, a national non-profit organization, Ludwig was unveiled at One Kenton Place, a retirement home in North York that cares for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. The 60-cm-high mechanical boy can talk and move to keep patients socially engage. His real job is to monitor the …

China’s leading internet portals have been ordered to stop their original news reporting, as President Xi Jinping’s government further tightens its control over the country’s information industry. The Cyberspace Administration of China called for the ban on several news portals, including Sina Corp., Tencent Holdings, Sohu.com Inc. and NetEase Inc., from publishing original reports alleging that the companies had “seriously …

A bar in Medicine Hat, Alta., is facing backlash after it told a transgender woman she could not use the female washrooms and later posted a controversial sign that some say is discriminatory. The Calgary woman, River Rising, said she was also asked many inappropriate questions by the staff. She says a bar manager told her it would make people …

Some strange and rather surprising news comes in from Jaguar via Automobile Magazine, where the outlet learned that the Coventry-based automaker is said to be ditching any future plans to build high-performance or sports cars, including no XK coupe or convertible replacement and production C-X75. According to the news bit, Jaguar instead wants to shift their focus from building sports …

A microneedle drug monitoring system has been developed by a team of researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland. This new system is capable of enhancing patient comfort and could potentially replace expensive, invasive blood draws. The new system consists of a small, thin patch that is pressed against a patient’s …