Ottawa Public Health says there are currently no patients in Ottawa ICUs with COVID-19 complications. The latest update from OPH on Saturday shows 20 hospitalized patients in the city, but zero in any intensive care unit. OPH reported 46 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, but the...
The Town of Amherstburg is fielding calls from parties interested in potentially restoring a First World War weapon found in the dirt of a high school construction site. On Friday, Dave Hachey, an equipment operator for Sterling Ridge Infrastructure, was sat in his excavator, digging out the earth to install...
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the presence of amyloid plaques in the patient's brain. These plaques sequester copper, and contain approximately five times as much as a healthy brain. Two CNRS scientists from the Coordination Chemistry Laboratory recently developed, with their colleagues from the Guangdong University of Technology and Shenzhen...
Noomi Rapace will lead cast in a gender-swapped adaptation of Hamlet from filmmaker Ali Abbasi. The film will reunite Abbasi with The Wife and Melancholia outfit Meta Film after they produced the director’s Oscar-nominated Cannes 2018 hit Border. Iceland’s Sjón (The Northman) is writing the project, with Stine Meldgaard Madsen (Borgen)...
Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer says she made a mistake in naming the First Nations community of Kitigan Zibi as part of her ancestry without formally verifying it. The Thunder Bay, Ont.-raised writer-director has issued a statement on Facebook to address what she says are recent questions raised about her ancestry. The...
A team of Cornell University scientists has found what they believe to be the first radio signature emitted by a planet outside of our solar system. The team, led by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D. Turner, Philippe Zarka of the Observatoire de Paris—Paris Sciences et Lettres University and Jean-Mathias Griessmeier...
John Perna, an alleged "soldier" in the Lucchese crime family pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge that he planned and carried out an attack on the husband of a "Real Housewives of New Jersey" cast member at the behest of the woman's ex, according to the plea agreement...
The “ugliest orchid in the world”, a toadstool discovered at Heathrow airport, and a bizarre scaly shrub have topped a list of new species named by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and their collaborators in 2020. The researchers said the 156 new plants and fungi highlighted the...
Just two weeks after Boba Fett made his triumphant, action-packed return to the Star Wars universe on The Mandalorian, Lucasfilm and Disney have revealed that everyone’s favorite bounty hunter is getting his own series in 2021. The show, titled The Book of Boba Fett, was announced in tandem with...
Japanese automaker Honda (NYSE:HMC) is recalling 130,000 vehicles in Canada, including Fit, Civic, Accord, Insight and Acura ILX models. The Canadian recall follows a similar recall of 1.4 million vehicles in the U.S. Honda says 96,761 of the recalled vehicles need repairs for drive shafts that can break due to corrosion...