Star Trek’s James Doohan had his ashes smuggled onto the International Space Station, it has been revealed.
Mr Doohan, who played Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott, asked for his ashes to be beamed to space when he died at the age of 85 in 2005.
The Canadian’s remains have now traveled more than 1.7 billion miles in orbit through space in secret.
After much public outcry, the Government of Canada rejected a bid by a Chinese state-owned company to acquire a gold mine in the Canadian arctic on Monday afternoon.
The attorney general of New York has filed a massive antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, seeking to force a divestiture of acquisitions such as Instagram and WhatsApp.
The suit filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James, and joined by 47 other state attorneys general.
People are deciding to not have kids over fears of them having to live through what they describe as an impending climate apocalypse, a new academic study found.
Researchers found that in a survey of 607 people aged 27 to 45 who considered climate change as a factor in their choice to have kids, over 96 per cent were either “very” or “extremely concerned” about the “well-being of their existing, expected or hypothetical children in a climate-changed world.”
There’s an upside to everything if you look hard enough.
Adamson Barbecue at 7 Queen Elizabeth Blvd. in Etobicoke opened its doors again on Wednesday morning despite warnings from authorities that they would be shut down and fined if they did so.
Toronto police say they don’t have the manpower to shut down a busy Etobicoke BBQ joint that defied provincial COVID-19 lockdown orders on Tuesday by opening for indoor dining.
Police and city bylaw officers arrived at Adamson Barbecue on Tuesday morning after it announced earlier on social media that it would defy the province’s orders forbidding indoor restaurant service.
CityNews reported that Adamson Barbecue had first taken to social media on Monday to proclaim that it wouldn’t be obeying the latest lockdown order. The Ontario government had announced in recent days that indoor dining, and various other activities, would be curbed from this week on, to stop the spread of the virus.
The Solomon Islands Government has defended its decision to place a temporary ban on Facebook, a move it says is aimed at tackling cyberbullying and online defamation.
