Canada
Life
Plumber Finds Gold Under a Bathtub in Canada
Gold has been found in some wonderfully strange places over the years, including one bar worth $50,000, which was found by a plumber underneath a bathtub in Canada.
Plumber Alif Babul was dismantling a bathtub at a home in Calgary,...
Animals
Fossilized Stomach Reveals What Young Tyrannosaurs Ate
Paleontologists in Canada have made a new discovery concerning dinosaurs. They found a 75-million-year-old baby dinosaur skeleton belonging to the Gorgosaurus libratus species. What makes this finding so important is that its stomach contained the remains of two young...
Canada
Growing Up Black in Greece: A Diplomat’s Daughter Recalls
Growing up black in Greece? Patricia Kumbakisaka, 31, one of Canada’s most accomplished young black women, has done it. Here she describes her life in Greece.
Archaeology
Vikings Were in America Before Columbus, Study Claims
Vikings from Greenland were living in North America's Newfoundland 1,000 years ago according to evidence from a recent study.
Newfoundland is located in Maritime Canada. Scientists have suspected for years that Vikings had settled in the area, but had not been...
Canada
The Greek Inventor of Hawaiian Pizza
Very few people know that the man who took the brave decision back in the 1960's to add pineapple to a pizza was a Greek immigrant to Canada.
Life
Old Woman Fights Off Intruder, Then Feeds Him
An 87-year-old woman from Maine, USA, courageously defended herself against a teenage assailant who broke into her home. Despite the frightening situation, Marjorie Perkins managed to fend off the intruder and, surprisingly, showed kindness by offering him food when...
USA
Big Freeze in North America, Death Toll Rises
A big freeze has gripped the US and Canada since a bomb cyclone hit North America over Christmas. Americans and Canadians in affected areas must contend with freezing temperatures and a thick blanket of snow.
Far from the idyllic "white...
Animals
Canadian Polar Bears Disappearing Rapidly
A recent survey found that populations of polar bears in the western Canadian Arctic, including the western section of Hudson Bay, are rapidly declining. Specifically, the populations of female bears and young bears have dropped drastically.
Each year for the...
History
New Titanic Footage Shows Wreck in ‘Highest-Ever Quality’
According to OceanGate Expeditions, new footage of the Titanic shot in the best resolution possible reveals an "astonishing level of detail."
The wreck, which was found thirty-seven years ago, is located four hundred nautical miles from Newfoundland, Canada at a...
Canada
Pope Francis ‘Begs Forgiveness’ Over Abuse at Catholic Schools in Canada
On Monday, Pope Francis apologized for the abuse suffered by Indigenous children at Canada’s church-run residential schools.
The pontiff decried the country’s “catastrophic” residential school system and asked for forgiveness for the “evil committed by so many Christians.”
His widely anticipated...