November was a bad month for Canada’s auto industry. Hot on the heels of GM Canada’s announcement it is shutting its long-running Oshawa assembly plant comes the news that Canadian auto sales have hit the skids. November light vehicle sales dropped by 9.4 per cent compared to the same month a year earlier, according to…
SALEM, Va. — Tufts’ Allyson Fournier won an All-American pitcher’s duel with Salisbury’s Rachel Johnson and the two-time defending national champion Jumbos won their 50th straight game on Friday night, 3-0, in a rematch of last year’s championship, to close out day two of the NCAA Division III Championship at the Moyer Sports Complex in…
Nasa has cancelled its first ever all-female space walk outside the International Space Station after it emerged it did not have enough suits to fit women. In a blow to what would have been one great leap for womankind, the plan for Christina Koch and Anne McClain to change a battery on the exterior of the…
A Royal Navy warship has seized more than two tons of hashish, in its sixth drugs haul of recent months while tackling traffickers in the Arabian Sea. HMS Dragon is believed to have set a Royal Navy record for drugs capture in the region with a string of major heroin and hashish hauls. The drugs…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) is the No. 1 unanimous choice in the 2015 NAIA Softball Coaches’ Preseason Top 25 Poll, the national office announced Tuesday. En route to a 44-7 record, the Warhawks won their first-ever NAIA Softball World Series last year, after a 10-6 defeat of No. 2 William Carey (Miss.), on…
Director Sam Raimi, known for Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man 3, told THR that although he loves it now, he originally thought Stan Lee having a cameo in Spider-Man was not a good idea. “I got the job for Spider-Man in 1999,” Raimi said. “And [Marvel head] Avi Arad said, ‘I want you to put Stan…
The flying cars depicted in science fiction classics such as “Blade Runner” and “The Fifth Element” have long been seen as flights of fancy, but their arrival is closer than you think. At least a dozen companies are prototyping or testing flying cars or passenger drones, according to a Deloitte report from January. Air taxis…
A luxury beach resort in the southern Philippines has won plaudits on the internet for telling “self-proclaimed” social media influencers to stop asking for freebies and get a job. “We are receiving many messages regarding collaborations with influencers, Instagram influencers. We kindly would like to announce that White Banana is not interested to “collaborate” with…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Behind perfect games, Missouri-St. Louis’ Hannah Perryman and Tiffin’s Kimmy Reynolds shared Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division II National Pitcher of the Week recognition, while Augustana’s Jenelle Trautmann was named National Player of the Week. Earning her second national accolade of the season, Perryman was dynamite in the circle for the third-ranked Tritons,…
Red Lake, Ont. — I grew up in a small mining town in North-Western Ontario called Red Lake. It is quite literally in the middle of nowhere, with the closest city being Winnipeg, Man., which is a short five-and-half hour drive away. Growing up in Red Lake was great in many ways. I was able…
