Mira Furlan, who captivated audiences with reality-bending roles in Lost and Babylon 5, has died at 65. Furlan’s Twitter account made the announcement on Thursday night, and it was later confirmed by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski. Though no cause of death was made public, Straczynski did say that,...
Pfizer on Friday committed to supply up to 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year to a World Health Organization-backed effort to get affordable shots to poor and middle-income countries. The deal is a boost to the global program known as COVAX, as wealthy nations have snapped up...
The B.C. government has changed its approach to mass COVID-19 vaccinations beginning in April, using age as the main factor to determine who gets vaccinated first. Friday morning, the B.C. government provided an approximate outline of when British Columbians will be able to receive their COVID-19 vaccine. It will be...
Cases of COVID-19 are declining in many parts of Canada, but experts say those early positive signs are dependent on widespread restrictions. Quebec, now under a province-wide curfew, has seen new cases decline. Ontario has showed 11 consecutive declines in its seven-day average, a metric that helps to spot...
Federal health officials announced that multiple new cases of the COVID-19 variants first discovered in the UK and South Africa have been found in Canada. On Friday, Canada’s chief public health officer said that the country has now confirmed 31 cases of the UK variant of coronavirus, and three cases...
Domestic cats and other felids rub their faces and heads against catnip (Nepeta cataria) and silver vine (Actinidia polygama) and roll on the ground as a characteristic response. In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, a team of researchers from Japan and the UK found that...
Simon Fraser University researchers have found evidence that large ambush-predatory worms -- some as long as two metres -- roamed the ocean floor near Taiwan over 20 million years ago. The finding, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, is the result of reconstructing an unusual trace fossil that...
It's time to celebrate, Bridgerton fans! Netflix has officially renewed Bridgerton for Season 2, and it will be time for Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) to finally find his love match. Lady Whistledown shared the news herself on Thursday with a special edition of her society papers, released by Netflix. The...
Dozens of U.K. music stars including Elton John, Ed Sheeran and conductor Simon Rattle say musicians have been “shamefully failed” by the British government, which has left them facing post-Brexit restrictions on touring in the European Union. In a letter published Wednesday in the Times of London, more than 100...
The biggest news of 2020 was how the biggest game of 2020 turned out to be the biggest catastrophe of 2020. Although Cyberpunk 2077 had good sales numbers, the game released in such a broken state that it was virtually unplayable on last-gen consoles and filled with bugs and...