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It’s been a while since Lexus had a flagship coupe atop the lineup. The last was the no-holds-barred SC, produced from 1991 through to 2010. The expensive coupe defined the brand — luxurious, smooth and exceptionally well built. Read More »

Metallica have apologized to a Canadian cover band who was served a 41-page cease and desist letter by the metal legends’ lawyers. “The band have been using this logo for years with no problems at all,” Sandman guitarist Joe Di Taranto said to Rolling Stone when they caught wind of what had happened. Read More »

Doom co-creator John Romero has crafted his first new Doom level in 21 years. Dubbed E1M8B, according to the Read Me file the level is for single-player, co-op and deatmatch. It’s a boss level replacement for ElMD. Read More »

Dan Haggerty, who played mountain man Grizzly Adams in a hit movie followed by a TV show in the 1970s, has died. He was 74. For the best part of a decade, the actor Dan Haggerty brought a grace and charm to an unlikely show that would become a huge family favourite. Read More »

Just days after the death of her husband Rene Angelil, it has been revealed Celine Dion’s brother is also battling cancer. According to her sister Claudette Dion, Daniel may only have a few days to live. Daniel is suffering from cancer of the throat, tongue and brain. He’s hospitalized in Montreal. Claudette said that her brother’s illness was similar to ... Read More »

We’ve got some bad news for all of you who have been watching the US version of Netflix in Canada. In a blog post, Netflix’s Vice President of Content Delivery Architecture David Fullagar has confirmed that the company is cracking down on the practise. Sadly not it looks like Netflix is about to crack down on proxies or ‘unblocking’ servers ... Read More »

One person has been left brain dead and five others are in a serious condition after taking part in a clinical trial in France of an experimental medicine allegedly for a dagga (cannabis) based painkiller. The six patients were in good health until taking the oral medication in Rennes, north-west France, wrote the French Health Minister Marisol Touraine in a ... Read More »

Five deaths related to influenza have taken place across the province in the last week, says Alberta Health Services. “We’ve seen people of all ages, whether they were healthy or not, being affected. Some of them severely, and some of them dying,” said Dr. Martin Lavoie, the province’s acting chief medical officer of health, speaking at a news conference about ... Read More »

Manitoba smokers will get government help in their effort to quit. The province is doing so by providing free nicotine replacement therapy products to eligible smokers. Healthy Living and Seniors Minister Deanne Crothers says up to 6,000 eligible Manitobans will be able to join the nicotine replacement therapy program (NRT), and receive up to eight weeks of NRT each year. ... Read More »

Health Canada is proposing regulatory changes that would fast-track making the anti-opioid drug Naloxone more widely available to counter an increase in opioid overdoses in Canada. The department is putting an amendment forward to the prescription drug list that would allow for non-prescription use of Naloxone for emergencies outside of a hospital setting. Following a review of its prescription status, ... Read More »

Tamara Fields sues Twitter over murder of husband Lloyd ‘Carl’ Fields by IS operative. Last November, a former police captain in Jordan burst into a training center and murdered unarmed people, including U.S. contractor Carl Fields, Jr. The terrorist group ISIS took credit for the atrocity and promoted it on social media. Read More »