The Red Dead Online beta is still trundling on, and with it the continued complaints about griefing, the in-game economy, microtransactions and lack of content. This week the game received a major update – and despite specifically seeking to address “destructive player behaviour”, the update has received criticism for failing to fully address griefing problems,…
Michael Jackson’s estate is suing HBO for more than $100 million over an upcoming documentary accusing the late star of abusing two men when they were children. "Leaving Neverland", which portrays Jackson as a serial child molester, has already caused a strong reaction after its premier at the Sundance Film Festival. It features testimony from…
Global oil prices have soared to their highest levels in four years, in what should be bad news for Canadian consumers’ budgets and good news for the country’s oil exporters. But Canada’s oil industry has been shut out of the recent bonanza. Canadian oil exports are selling at their steepest discount in years, the result…
Click:vanilla gifts The countdown to the royal wedding is on! With less than 24 hours left until Meghan Markle and Prince Harry get hitched, more and more details about the extravagant nuptials are being released — and we’re obsessing over every single factoid. The latest tidbit comes from the Royal Family’s official Instagram account, which…
Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, is reported to have purged senior aides ahead of a landmark summit on nuclear weapons next week with Donald Trump, the US president, in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi. Seasoned diplomats who have worked for the regime since the eras of Kim’s father and grandfather are said to have been…
On some nights, reading the energy of a room comes easy for Franco Nguyen. It’s one of the skills the Toronto comedian has picked up doing live stand-up comedy and performing as part of a four-man sketch troupe, TallBoyz II Men. “If I do a show where it’s four white guys performing and then I…
With the news last week that the Bank of Canada increased its prime rate for the third time this year by 0.25 points to 1.75, many homeowners are wondering how this will impact house prices. Will this just slow down price growth, or cause a significant drop in what is still a hot housing market?…
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation announced the expansion of television coverage for the XIV Women’s Softball World Championship, which is currently being staged from August 15-24, in Europe for the first-time ever — marking a major landmark for the global growth of the women’s sport. The 16-nation world championship in Haarlem…
The royal wedding of the year — a.k.a. the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — will take place on Saturday, May 19 at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle. But just because the nuptials are taking place across the pond doesn’t mean us Canucks have to miss out on the action. Back in…
For 1,653 days Islamic State has ruled over its prophesied caliphate. During that four-and-a-half years they inflicted untold misery on the nearly 10 million people that lived in it – a vast cross-border territory that at its height was the size of Britain. But last night, their reign of terror appeared to be in its…