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Los Angeles City Council votes 14-1 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day POSTMEDIA NETWORK First posted: Thursday, August 31, 2017 12:56 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 31, 2017 01:13 PM EDT America’s second-largest city has voted to order Christopher Columbus to set sail back...

Japanese official Taro Aso retracts remark about Adolf Hitler’s 'good' intentions THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 07:35 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 07:43 AM EDT TOKYO — Japan’s deputy prime minister on Wednesday retracted a comment made a day...

Video: Researchers film bizarre-looking 'cockatoo squid' near British Columbia coast POSTMEDIA NETWORK First posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 08:50 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 09:02 AM EDT Researchers were tickled this week to discover a bizarre-looking “cockatoo squid” off the...

Kang says he's innocent By James Wood, Postmedia First posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 12:07 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 04:08 PM EDT Facing calls for his expulsion from the federal Liberal caucus, Calgary Skyview MP Darshan Kang declared Tuesday that he was innocent of...

Doug Ford to reveal political plan at Ford Fest? By Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun First posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 12:17 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 01:43 PM EDT TORONTO - Always with a flair for the dramatic, Doug Ford insists he will finally come out of political...

'It smelled like plastic': Over 130 people treated after mysterious gas cloud hits British coast THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Monday, August 28, 2017 09:42 AM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 28, 2017 09:59 AM EDT LONDON — A mysterious chemical haze that left scores of people on the English...

Alexandra Cousteau joins expedition streaming unseen depths of the Gulf of St. Lawrence THE CANADIAN PRESS First posted: Monday, August 28, 2017 05:15 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 28, 2017 05:29 PM EDT CHETICAMP, N.S. — A scientific expedition in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is revealing...

A piece of cake: Quirky bake shop makes every genre delicious By Rita DeMontis, Toronto Sun First posted: Sunday, August 27, 2017 08:22 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, August 27, 2017 08:26 PM EDT There’s cake. And then there’s Cakes Cove, home to some of the most surreal and spectacular cake...

It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post First posted: Friday, August 25, 2017 08:51 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 25, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Consider this your daily reminder that the solar system is even more awesomely bonkers than you realized: On Uranus...

Is it nuclear war, viral epidemic or azoospermia? By Dr. W. Gifford-Jones, Special to Postmedia Network First posted: Saturday, August 26, 2017 07:00 AM EDT It has been said that those who do not remember history are destined to relive it. Today, the problem is that none of us seem to remember...

'There’s another face looking at my daughter'; Jesus found in baby’s sonogram? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Thursday, August 24, 2017 12:23 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 24, 2017 12:46 PM EDT CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania couple says Jesus showed up in their daughter’s sonogram...

Blue Racism video sparks backlash By Chris Doucette, Toronto Sun First posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 06:45 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 06:52 PM EDT A video posted online recently by the NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) — a union representing 13,000 active and...

Astronaut urine could be key to survival for future Mars missions Andrew deGrandpre, The Washington Post First posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 08:47 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 08:53 AM EDT NASA is funding new research to determine whether human urine and the carbon dioxide...

Yale to remove carving with gun pointed at Native American Dave Collins, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 03:54 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 03:58 PM EDT Yale University will remove what it calls a “problematic” doorway stone carving depicting a Puritan...

West Nile epidemic imminent in Ontario: Researchers Grant Lafleche, Postmedia Network First posted: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 09:58 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 10:04 PM EDT Ontario is on the cusp of another West Nile virus epidemic, according to new research published by Brock...

Holt Renfrew removes dress with yellow star By Liz Braun, Toronto Sun First posted: Monday, August 21, 2017 06:55 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 21, 2017 07:15 PM EDT What do you think of when you see this yellow star? •Yellow rose of Texas •Sheriff’s badge •Stars and stripes forever...

Penn Jillette apologizes for saying being from Newfoundland 'a euphamism for stupid' THE CANADIAN PRESS First posted: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:57 AM EDT | Updated: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:14 PM EDT LOS ANGELES — Celebrity magician Penn Jillette has apologized after Newfoundlanders took...

NASA, PBS marking Voyager launch's 40th anniversary Marcia Dunn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Friday, August 18, 2017 11:34 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 18, 2017 11:41 AM EDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors — the twin Voyager...

Montreal amusement park yanks carousel horse showing Indigenous man’s severed head Sidhartha Banerjee, THE CANADIAN PRESS First posted: Friday, August 18, 2017 03:46 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 18, 2017 03:59 PM EDT Montreal’s La Ronde amusement park says it has removed a carousel horse...

Lawyer: Woman didn't exploit e-retailer's glitch, she just spotted a deal THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Thursday, August 17, 2017 05:44 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 17, 2017 05:53 PM EDT BRICK, N.J. — The lawyer for a woman accused of exploiting a glitch on a home improvement chain’s...