Campers were shocked to see missing children at South Dakota biker rally The two children at the centre of Monday’s Amber Alert issued in Saskatchewan remain safe with authorities in South Dakota, but more details are coming out about their journey, including how they, their mother and her common-law partner got across the border. Their mother and her common-law partner, Benjamin Martin Moore, a convicted sex offender, were arrested in South Dakota on Tuesday at about 11:30 p.m. MT, according to Meade County Sheriff Ron Merwin. Saskatchewan RCMP confirmed on Friday that bothRead more

The Halifax-based gopher tortoise is the oldest of his kind on record Nova Scotia’s most beloved reptile is now 100 — or close enough for a party. Gus the gopher tortoise has been in residence at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax since 1942. While his actual hatching day is lost to history, August seems like the right time to celebrate. “So it’s an average time, mid-August, for when tortoises start to hatch from their eggs,” said Liz Spence, one of the museum’s curatorial staff who takes care ofRead more

Attack on author at N.Y. lecture ‘reprehensible in every way,’ says longtime publisher Canadian writers, publishers and literary figures doubled down on the right to freedom of thought and expression on Saturday, one day after an attack in the U.S. on award-winning author Salman Rushdie that has left him on a ventilator in hospital. Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses drew death threats from Iran’s leaders in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in westernRead more

Experts say technology is getting closer to commercialization It’s not what you’d expect to find on the 29th floor of a Toronto office building. Instead of cubicles, a complex arrangement of lasers, mirrors and optical fibres run from floor to ceiling, making up the quantum computer called Borealis. And Borealis recently hit a milestone by solving a colossal math problem. “If we ran [the problem] on the most powerful supercomputer out there, it would take 9,000 years. For Borealis, it takes less than a second, which is quite incredible,” saysRead more

WestJet admits challenges a result of flight delays, cancellations, resource constraints Ever since Erin Machette was in high school, a poster of Ireland hung on her wall. In June, Machette and her husband finally travelled to the land of saints and scholars for their 27th anniversary. But when they arrived in Dublin after a delayed and rescheduled flight, their checked baggage was nowhere to be found. This led to hours spent in customer service lines, on hold on the phone, and filling out online compensation forms and emails. Her luggage has now been missingRead more