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On top of the growing number of skunks and raccoons with rabies, Hamilton is now reporting its first confirmed case this year of a bat with the virus. The city’s public health department said in a release it has received test results from a rabid bat, the first such confirmed case this year and twelfth since 2010. Hamilton is already …

“Orphan Black” lead star Tatiana Maslany is nominated in the Best Lead Actress in a Drama category at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards. If you’re unfamiliar with the critically loved, and critically under-watched, series, Maslany plays several different roles. The show is based on a huge cloning conspiracy, and Maslany can be found playing close to half a dozen different …

If you’re having a hard time catching them all – a Pokemon chauffeur might be just what you need. A dozen people have posted advertisements on Craigslist’s Vancouver site offering to drive players around as they use their smartphones to locate “augmented reality” Pokemon, PokeStops and Pokemon Gyms scattered across the Lower Mainland. One UBC student offering his services says …

Music sensation Katy Perry has just released “Rise” her first new single in over two years, exclusively on Apple Music and iTunes “This song has been brewing inside of me for years,” Perry announced in a statement. “Now, more than ever there is a need for our world to unite.”

A truck plowed into pedestrians during Bastille Day celebrations in the popular French seaside city of Nice Thursday, leaving at least 84 people dead in what the nation’s president called “obviously a terrorist attack.” Police shot and killed the driver, who drove at high speed for over 100 meters (yards) along the famed Promenade des Anglais seafront before hitting the …

The hairdresser tasked with managing French president Francois Hollande’s receding hairline is paid an eye-watering €10,000 a month. The news was first reported in satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaîné, which claims that the stylist, named as Olivier B, travels with Hollande on most of his foreign trips. The Élysée Palace has attempted to justify the pay, telling the magazine that …

New opioid use in older adults with COPD associated with increased risk of death. When St. Michael’s Hospital scientists looked specifically at more potent opioids, they found the risk for respiratory-related death was five times higher for new opioid users compared to non-opioid users. The study, published today in the European Respiratory Journal, raises safety concerns about new opioid use …

Celebrity bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman’s bail bonds company owes the state $35,500 for forfeited bonds, the state attorney general said. Attorney General Doug Chin said in a press release Wednesday that his office has filed petitions to enforce judgments against Da Kine Bail Bonds and Safety National Casualty Corporation “for forfeited bail bonds those companies failed to pay” to …

Pokémon Go launched to incredible fanfare this month. The numbers are blowing up and Nintendo is cool again. Pokémon Go, a smartphone version of the popular late 1990s video and trading card game, has become an omnipresent phenomenon since its release last week. To put it in perspective: The game will soon have more Android phone users than Twitter, and …

A new tentative deal between the provincial government and Ontario doctors has local physicians hoping for fewer restrictions going forward. Queen’s Park has reached a tentative four-year deal with Ontario’s doctors, including annual increases to the physician services budget. A statement announcing the deal with the Ontario Medical Association doesn’t include the amount of the increases.

A newly released affidavit shows the reason police say they shot a 37-yearold, black man dead in Baton Rouge last week. Officers were justified in their shooting of Alton Sterling during a confrontation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, according to a police report on the incident. That shooting resulted in Sterling’s death, which alongside the police-involved shooting of Philando Castile near …