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A 34-year-old Courtice, Ont. man has been charged with impaired driving after police say he was seen driving erratically with a baby in the rear seat of his car. Reports of a brown Dodge running a red light at Taunton Rd and Trulls Rd, north of Courtice, came into police around 7:30 p.m., Durham Regional Police said in a release. …

After sitting out a year, the Honda Accord Hybrid returns for 2017 with more power, more standard safety and tech options, and better efficiency. Regarding that last point, Honda asserts it is true in reality if not on paper. The 2017 Accord Hybrid will sell to people who want a midsize sedan that also happens to get stellar MPG figures, …

Four bison calves frolicking around a University of Saskatchewan research farm could hold the key to rejuvenating the world’s threatened wood bison population. Three calves are the first bison ever born using in vitro fertilization. Researchers produced them in a laboratory, then transferred the embryos into surrogate mothers more than nine months ago. The bison cows gave birth to the …

Pamela Anderson is part of the latest anti-salmon farming campaign with an organization helmed by a man who has argued that the global population should be reduced by several billion people. The 49-year-old erstwhile ‘#Bay Watch#’ actor turned social activist joins hands with renowned environmental activist David Suzuki for convincing people to chose wild and natural grown Salmon over farmed …

A black therapist named Charles Kinsey was shot by the police while caring for his autistic patient in Miami on Monday. And the incident was caught on video. The 47-year-old, unarmed black man works with people with disabilities. At the time of the incident he was trying to get his 27-year-old patient back to a facility safely. Authorities said the …

Snapchat, a 5-year-old social media innovator, has recently announced its partnership with Bitmoji, a personalized emoji creation application. Bitmoji helps create personalized packs of stickers designed to resemble the user, thus making them more appealing than regular ones. Users will be able to send snaps with Bitmojis or use them inside conversations. But before they can send Bitmoji, users would …

Metro Vancouver Transit Police are urging Pokemon Go players to make sure they are playing the game safely after a young man jumped onto the Canada Line tracks at Vancouver City Centre station on Tuesday. Two young men were reportedly on the platform of the VCC-Clark station yesterday when one decided to jump onto the tracks with his phone while …

Scientists in Canada and the US have developed a new type of vaccine which has had success against the zika virus in lab testing. Université Laval’s Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDRC) and Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval (CHU) are proud to announce that the first clinical study for a Zika vaccine in Canada is set to begin …

A stunning new map of the brain could revolutionise our understand of how it works, researchers say the new models have already uncovered 100 previously unknown regions of the brain. “In some cases, we identified a patch of cortex that probably could be subdivided, but we couldn’t confidently draw borders with our current data and techniques. In the future, researchers …

“Pokémon Go,” which is currently available in over 30 countries, including the U.S., Canada and much of Europe, was expected to be released in Japan on Wednesday. But, the companies behind the game have decided to delay the launch in the country, a media report said Wednesday, citing a source close to the matter. Nintendo’s shares suffered a rare bad …

Crystal Harris Hefner has gone to extreme lengths to get better. The wife of Hugh Hefner has had her breast implants removed because of how unwell they were making her feel. Playboy model Crystal Hefner has taken to Facebook to share the real reason why she went under the knife in June earlier this year. The third wife of the …