Calm and bliss–those oh so elusive qualities–are not just limited to living the good life at your local ashram. Turns out, there’s plenty of other places you can track down Mr. C. and Ms. B. How about the Toronto Stock Exchange? It remains unlikely that anyone will ever mistake a stock exchange floor with the peaceful grass at…...إقرأالمزيد

Researchers in Ontario have found that 20 patients who went into hospital intensive care units (ICU) with no brain-related conditions all came out with cognitive deficits. “After they’d recovered from their acute illness, we found that they were all impaired with respect to things like memory, thinking, attention…things that people…...إقرأالمزيد

Hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to help authorities and residents battle flooding in the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick. There are six major floods in Quebec and, at this hour, 2,549 homes have been evacuated. Many people who had to leave suffered flooding in 2017 and had not finished repairing damage that occurred then. The premier…...إقرأالمزيد

شاب اطلاق اول هاتف مطوي لسامسونغ  كلاكسي فولد صعوبات تقنية حالت دون استعماله من طرف مستخدمين عند اقتنائهم للجهاز وأوعزت شركة سامسونغ في ردّ رسمي لها ، الى أن المستخدمين نزعوا خطأ الطبقة الشفافة…...إقرأالمزيد

Plans by the federal government to mint a new dollar coin designed to commemorate 50 years of homosexual rights in Canada have sparked a backlash both from proponents of LGBTQ rights and social conservative groups, CBC News reports. The new dollar coin, known in the Canadian slang as the “loonie” for the image of a loon duck usually…...إقرأالمزيد

The Canadian government and the Inuit Heritage Trust have made an agreement for the study and preservation artifacts from the 1845 Franklin expedition. Sir John Franklin set out from England with a crew of 129 aboard two ships to look for a way to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. However, they got stuck in ice and no one survived. HMS Erebus…...إقرأالمزيد

In  February 2014, Russia made incursions into Ukraine, eventually annexing Crimea in March. In April at about the same time as conflict erupted between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed armed separatists, Canada announced it would send Canadian military personnel to the country to help train Ukrainian forces. Arriving in 2015 the approximately…...إقرأالمزيد

It is common for celebrities to be criticized about their weight and psychologists have found that when that happens, women’s negative attitudes about fat increase. Psychologists at McGill University looked at 20 instances of celebrity fat-shaming and women’s attitudes before and after they occurred. Comments in the media are not inconsequential,…...إقرأالمزيد

Once again Chinese researchers are being condemned for an experiment involving genomics. The controversy comes from an effort to insert a human brain gene into eleven monkey embroyos. The  five surviving monkeys did not have bigger brains but their brains did develop more slowly along the lines of human brain development, and are said to be slightly…...إقرأالمزيد

Police in the Southern Interior of British Columbia have charged a 60-year-old man in connection with a string of fatal shootings that that killed four people in the city of Penticton Monday morning. John Brittain, 60, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder. CBC News reports that Brittain,…...إقرأالمزيد