The mayors of two Icelandic towns have complained to Google that the tech giant’s satellite mapping images cast their homes in an eternal winter. Jon Pall Hreinsson, mayor of Bolungarvik, said that seeing his fishing village in the far reaches of Iceland’s Westfjords permanently covered in snow on Google Maps was “getting on his nerves”….
A top-ranking official with Canada’s central bank suggests high housing costs are holding the country’s labour market back. Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn A. Wilkins says investing in employees through training and education, for example, is one way to boost the labour market — but it isn’t the only approach needed. The availability…
Minecraft: Story Mode, an episodic point-and-click adventure game from the recently shuttered Telltale Games, has launched on Netflix. Available to stream now, the first three episodes of the season are up and running, and the final two episodes will be coming December 5. The original first season of Minecraft: Story Mode ran for eight episodes,…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Oregon freshman Jenna Lilley and Kent State senior Emma Johnson were selected 2015 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National Pitcher and Player of the Week respectively, for games played over April 20-26. Lilley had a masterful weekend in helping the second-ranked Ducks complete a big non-conference sweep of then-No. 9 Louisiana-Lafayette. The…
Australia and Singapore suspended operations of all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in and out of Changi airport on Tuesday, and Indonesia and China grounded their fleets of the US planemaker’ s latest model after it suffered a second fatal crash in less than five months. The scare has wiped billions of dollars off the market value of…
TORONTO — The Bank of Mom and Dad is definitely up and running in Canada, a new survey suggests. According to financial product comparison site Finder.com, two-thirds of Canadian parents are helping out their adult children with their finances, based on a study of 2,000 adults. Just under half (47.3 per cent) admit that their…
OKLAHOMA CITY – No. 4 Dixie State and No. 6 North Georgia will meet for the 2015 NCAA Division II Championship on Monday at 12:00 p.m. at Tom Heath Field on the campus of Oklahoma Christian University. It will be the first appearance in the title game for both programs. The fourth-ranked Red Storm…
For sisters Mischka and Joella Crichton, Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival (formerly and still commonly called Caribana) is in their blood. Older sister Mischka often jokes that they came out of the womb chippin’. (Chippin’ is a Caribbean term to describe the jovial steps masqueraders take down the parade road during Carnival.) And those steps have paid…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — East Texas Baptist’s Lacey Lindsey and Tufts’ Allyson Fournier have been selected as the Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III National Hitter and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. Lindsey, a sophomore first baseman from Leander, Texas, batted .524 (11-for-21) this past week for the No. 3-ranked (31-2) Tigers, which…
India was riled after China blocked a United Nations move to list the leader of a militant organisation in Kashmir as a global terrorist. Beijing put a last-minute "hold" on a proposal by New Delhi on Wednesday, supported by the US, UK and France, to designate Masood Azhar as a "global terrorist" under the 1267…