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The Weeknd has donated $50,000 to the University of Toronto to help start an Ethiopic Studies program. The Toronto Star reports that the singer, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, donated the money after a request from the Ethiopian-Canadian organization Bikila Award. U of T professor Michael Gervers had previously pledged to contribute $50,000 if the university and/or Ethiopian community ... Read More »

Canadians can now use Apple Pay and a compatible iPhone to make purchases at vending machines across the country. People can use Apple Pay to fund the PayRange iOS app, which is being supported by members of the Canadian National Vending Alliance, the latter organization said. The app can only be used at machines equipped with a BluKey dongle, although ... Read More »

A new research from Indiana University researchers shows that although most people who engage in sexting expect their messages to remain private, nearly one in four people are sharing the sexual messages they receive. The study, “Sexting among singles in the USA: Prevalence of sending, receiving, and sharing sexual messages and images,” was led by Justin Garcia, Ruth Halls Assistant ... Read More »

Not only do millennials have to face issues like rising house prices, managing huge student debts and balancing their pokemon go obsession whilst holding down a full time job, now a new study has found millennials are having less sex than their parents generation. A new study reveals that more Millennials, born in the 1990s in particular, are nevertheless forgoing ... Read More »

Pokemon Go has raked in a whopping $200 million during its debut month. Thus this game has beaten Candy Crush by a wide margin. The revenue comes from in-app purchases Pokemon Go players make. You can buy Poke Balls, which are tossed at Pokemon to catch them. Players can also pay for things like Lures and Incense, to attract Pokemon. ... Read More »

Two skydivers were killed during a jump in Northern California Saturday morning, according to authorities. Their bodies were found in a Lodi-area vineyard after someone reported that the skydivers hit the ground without an open parachute, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Deputy Les Garcia said. It appeared the parachute did not deploy until after impact, he said. Authorities were working to ... Read More »

Americans just can’t get enough SUVs, with 2016 sales through the roof in just about every segment. Nissan’s Pathfinder, however, hasn’t been following the trend — sales are down this year as the aging 2016 model isn’t proving popular with buyers. Nissan hopes to change that slide with the revised 2017 model, which will arrive in showrooms in September. More ... Read More »

New study from the University of Guelph and Nipissing University shows that people who help others are more desirable to the opposite sex, have more sexual partners and more frequent sex. “This research is the first to show that altruism may translate into real mating success in Western populations, that altruists have more mates than non-altruists,” said Pat Barclay, a ... Read More »

In spite of everything she’s done for women with her empowering nude selfies, Kim Kardashian West does not consider herself a feminist. At least that’s what she told the audience assembled for her keynote speech at the BlogHer 16 conference in Los Angeles on Friday. “Everyone always says, are you a feminist? And I don’t think that I am,” she ... Read More »

District of West Vancouver councillor Michael Lewis has died of lung cancer. He was diagnosed in June. District Mayor Michael Smith says he was the voice of reason and common sense. “He was a very quiet and charming guy,” Smith says. Read More »

Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva, a Republican, was arrested on August 4 at his Silver Lake Stockton youth camp in Amador County on charges involving contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Silva, who held anti-gay prayer rallies at megachurches and once gave God a key to the city was arrested after recording underage male teens playing strip poker in his ... Read More »