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SUDBURY — Canada’s newest millionaires are a sweet, retired working-class couple from the town of Hearst in northern Ontario. James Wickman and his wife Eerikka drove almost 10 hours to Toronto in a rented coach bus with around two dozen family members to pick up their $65 million Lotto Max…
Sampa the Great has shared a new remix of Times Up from her 2019 album The Return. The new version features Brooklyn rapper Junglepussy. Check it out below. In addition to the new remix, Sampa has launched a remix competition, encouraging Black women and nonbinary people across the world to…
With the news that the Apple Watch will soon be able to measure VO2max more effectively (they say) than ever, you may be wondering what VO2max even is. Its a measure of your aerobic fitness, and you dont need a gadget to figure yours out. VO2max, properly rendered VO2max, is…
A virtual conference for virtual reality The seventh annual Facebook Connect — formerly Oculus Connect — covers virtual and augmented reality news from the social media giant. Held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced the Oculus Quest 2, a $299 successor to its standalone Quest VR headset,…
President Trump speaks to members of the press at the White House on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Trump praised the Big Ten’s decision to resume the college football season at the end of October. Alex Wong/Getty Images Football and the presidential campaign have intersected yet again. President Trump on Wednesday cheered…
In the midst of a global pandemic, a national struggle toward racial justice and a profoundly consequential U.S. election, this moment can be difficult to grasp. Can fiction help us make sense of it all and better understand what lies ahead? Do fiction writers have any responsibilities toward current events?…
Amazon Music is the latest streaming service to embrace podcasts. The company announced this morning it’s launching support for podcasts in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan on Amazon Music at no additional cost, and is rolling out its own original programming. The first slate of originals on Amazon Music…
The 2020 presidential election is November 3, meaning voters have less than seven weeks to complete or update their registration. The good news is that there are way, way too many services you can use to register to vote online. You really have no excuse. That said, theres a lot…
Ontario is reporting more than 300 new cases of COVID-19 for the second time in the last three days, marking the continuation of a steady upward trend that has now seen infection levels return to where they were in June. The Ministry of Health says that there were 315 new…
