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The Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) has named the 2017 Volkswagen Golf Alltrack as this year’s Canadian Car of the Year at the 2017 Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto. The winning vehicles were crowned following an intensive week of back-to-back testing by automotive journalists gathered from across Canada. Despite having driven a few dozens of new and significantly …

Britax has recalled more than 600,000 strollers after discovering an issue that could cause child seats to disengage from the device. The recall affects Britax B-Agile and BOB Motion strollers, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Britax has received 33 reports of car seats unexpectedly disconnecting from the strollers and falling to the ground, resulting in 26 reports of …

Barrie Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a two snow machine collision, that occurred at 1:46 pm Saturday, Feb. 18 just off Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Club Trail B near Line 15 north in Oro-Medonte Township. A Red Yamaha snowmobile traveling southbound near OFSC Trail B collided head on with an Arctic Cat travelling north bound off the trail. The …

His doctor called it a ‘miracle,’ but for Andy Sandness, a face transplant gave him his life back, 10 years after he’d tried to end it all. Andrew Sandness, 32, is from the small town of Newcastle. When he was 21-years old he was disfigured in a suicide attempt. After surviving a shot to the face, his recovery began with …

Actress Bijou Phillips, daughter of the late Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Phillips, reportedly has been hospitalized in need of a kidney transplant. According to TMZ, the 36-year-old actress was rushed to a hospital in Santa Barbara, California, on Wednesday night due to a complication of her ongoing kidney disease. Phillips’ representatives revealed on Thursday that the actress …

Images of Kim Jong-nam’s final moments have emerged. According to the New Straits Times, one of Malaysia’s biggest newspapers, it is the final image of Kim Jong-Nam alive. The photograph on the front page appears to show the 45-year-old slumped in a chair inside Kuala Lumpur’s international airport, where he was attacked on Monday. He died on the way to …

There was a slight decrease in the number of illicit drug deaths in B.C. last month, though the issue remains a grave concern. The BC Coroners Service says illicit drug use accounted for 116 deaths in January, an average of more than seven deaths every two days – and still the third-highest number ever for a single month. The January …

BlackBerry may face a class-action lawsuit seeking more than $20 million in damages for allegedly misleading employees who accepted a transfer to Ford Motors as part of a strategic partnership. A notice of claim filed by local law firm Nelligan O’Brien Payne says Ottawa’s David Parker worked for BlackBerry for 14 years before being among more than 300 employees from …

If those 30-second unskippable ads on YouTube have you down, then good news: they won’t be around for much longer. In an announcement today, Google said that it will stop showing unskippable 30-second ads before YouTube videos beginning next year. The advertising focus for YouTube will switch over to a 6-second unskippable “bumper ad” format in the coming year, which …

Bugatti is reading its Veyron replacing Chiron for first deliveries soon, as it reveals each car takes six months to build. Bugatti will produce only 500 examples of the all-new Chiron “super sports car,” as the company calls it, and sell them for $2.6 million each. Even at that price, Bugatti has already taken about 180 preorders. The Chiron looks …

Arnold Schwarzenegger made fun of Nickelback in a recent tweet, with the band quick to throw the fun right back at him by mentioning one of his movies. Last night, two entities that know what it’s like to be pop culture punchlines—Nickelback and Arnold Schwarzenegger—displayed an understanding of the latter by eschewing pettiness for humor and humility.