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To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, the Great Trail is expected to be completed in 2017. Initiated in 1992 as a project to celebrate Canada’s 125th year, the Trans Canada Trail is the world’s longest networks of multi-use recreational trails, comprised of land and water routes across urban, rural and wilderness landscapes. Once fully connected, it will stretch nearly 24,000 kilometres …

It the time of year where serious mushroom foragers hit the forests for their favourite mushrooms, but there may be something lurking in the ground called the ‘death cap mushroom.” The BC Centre for Disease Control and Vancouver Mycological Society are warning recreational mushroom hunters to use caution and common sense when foraging wild mushrooms. The warning follows an increase …

Jeremy Shuler has arrived on the Cornell University campus. According to The Associated Press, Jeremy Shuler began reading books in English and Korean at age 2, studying calculus at 6 and at age 10 began showing he was intellectually ready for collge.

Lena Dunham has apologised for a publishing regrettable statements about NFL player Odell Beckham Jr following a social media outcry. While it was mostly a love-fest between the two friends, one section, in which Dunham made comments about New York Giants NFL player Odell Beckham Jr, caught the internet’s attention and led to a swift and severe social media backlash.

Finnegan and Murphy, two Boston terrier and pug mix puppies, were separated when they were just 8 weeks old in September 2015. Murphy was adopted by his original Mississippi-based owners’ friends right off the bat, whereas Finnegan ventured off to New Jersey, rescued by Southern Paws Inc. In New Jersey, Erin Ryan and her two sisters, all living together, found …

BlackBerry has joined forces with rival Samsung to ‘spy-proof’ a tablet used by the German government to process classified information. Though the tablet — the Galaxy Tab S2 — includes Samsung KNOX as standard, BlackBerry’s additional technologies and expertise ensure that sensitive information won’t emanate from the so-called ‘SecuTablet’. This Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 will include a security card and …

The smartphone market is expected to significantly decelerate in 2016, with developed markets such as the U.S., Canada, Western Europe and Japan weighing most heavily. Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to reach 1.46 billion units in 2016, marking a year-over-year growth rate of 1.6%, according to the latest forecast from tech-industry tracker IDC. The analyst firm also said that iPhone …

A journalist has spoken out for the first time about the loss of his nine-year-old son to cancer in a bid to raise awareness of the disease. Saul Chapman, son of Trinity Mirror group development director Toby Chapman, died in September 2014 after an 11-month battle with a rare form of cancer that affected just 15 people in the UK …

A 6-year-old boy from Ontario required surgery after a bristle from a wire barbecue cleaning brush became lodged in his throat. CBC reports Anthony Fiore took a bit of a burger in June only to feel a sharp pain. “It felt like a needle,” he says. Twelve hours later, Anthony was in surgery having a wire bristle removed from his …

A new experimental drug holding promise for Alzheimer’s S sufferers. A plaque-busting antibody being tested by Biogen stands a chance to become the first real treatment for Alzheimer’s and could settle a long-running debate over the true cause of the disease. Biogen’s drug, called aducanumab, was given to 165 patients, and the company says in those who took the highest …

It’s the largest loss of the deadly opiate known as “fentanyl” at Island Health in the past five years. Officials says the drug disappeared late last year from Royal Jubilee Hospital, but can’t say how it went missing, or by whom.