Despite receiving the all-clear to return to their homes, people living in the area around a train derailment and subsequent hazardous chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, say they remain concerned about health risks, and some Canadians living on the northern shore of Lake Erie have also expressed worry. It’s been more than a week
A pint-sized toddler in a small B.C. city has captured the attention of millions around the world. Thomas Pethick is only 15 months old but he already loves to help out in his parent’s Water Utility Company in Quesnel.He started going to work with his mom last September.“Since then, he’s just been watching what we
Michigan state representative Ranjeev Puri doesn’t want your condolences — he wants real change. After a gunman killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University on Monday night, Puri, a Democratic legislator, released a statement beginning with one powerful, strongly worded sentence: “F— your thoughts and prayers.” Read more: Three people killed after shootings
Gone are the days of jungle juice in solo cups. Now, it’s all about the borg, or the “blackout rage gallon.” In a new trend sweeping across social media and onto college campuses, Gen Z students have found a new, and seemingly improved, way to binge drink. Using a plastic gallon container, students are mixing
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will have to give testimony under oath as part of a defamation case brought by Samantha Markle, the Duchess’s half-sister, a judge has ruled. The couple filed a motion to block their depositions in the case, in which Samantha is seeking damages over what
The U.S. Navy has released new photos of officials retrieving parts of a Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday. The close-up photos, released by the U.S. Fleet Forces on Tuesday, show Navy sailors pulling parts of the high-altitude spy balloon from waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach
Nine-year-old David Balogun is a certified class act. Balogun, who lives with his family in Pennsylvania, became one of the youngest-ever high school graduates — and he’s already finished a semester of community college. Read more: At 30 years old, meet the world’s oldest-ever dog, Bobi Read next: How inflation is tapping out a Montreal
Scientists from China’s Northwest A&F University, located just outside Xi’an, told local media that they successfully cloned three “super cows” capable of producing 50 per cent more milk than the average Canadian Holstein dairy cow. The researchers took tissue samples from Holstein cows that produced high volumes of milk and used the “somatic cell nuclear
A Japanese zoo believes they’ve finally solved the mystery of how their female gibbon became pregnant while living alone in her enclosure. The puzzle dates back to February 2021, when Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon at the Saikai National Park Kujukushima Zoo & Botanical Garden, shocked her keepers by giving birth.But how? Momo lived separately
Some lessons you have to learn the hard way. Such was the case for a Polish tourist in Mexico, who was confronted by a group of angry people after he decided to take off his shoes and climb the scared temple of Kukulkan last weekend.The incident happened at the Chichén Itzá archaeological site on Mexico’s