Scientists find tapeworms in 270 million-year-old shark poop
Scientists in Brazil have found fossilized poop from a prehistoric shark that appears to contain 93 individual tapeworm eggs. The...
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Emily Senger
Emily Senger is a contributing editor. She helped Maclean’s win a gold National Magazine Award for Website of the Year. She does most of her contributing from Alberta.
France attempts to ban the word ’hashtag,’ replace it with ’mot-dièse’
The French language police are carrying out their mission of cracking down on English words encroaching on the French language by...
Place your bets: Nate Silver predicts the Super Bowl outcome
The statistician who successfully predicted President Barack Obama’s November election victory, and attracted a lot of controversy...
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Barbra Streisand to sing at Oscars, 36 years after first performance
Back in time to the 1977 Academy Awards
A new NHL team in the Toronto area? Arena plan goes forward in Markham
Hockey fans can continue speculating about the potential for a second NHL team in the Toronto area after Markham city council...
American Express cardholders offered front-of-the-line deal at Jim Flaherty speaking event
An exclusive offer to see an Ottawa celebrity
Barack Obama’s popularity is at three-year high, new poll shows
President Barack Obama’s popularity is on the upswing, according to a new poll released by T he Washington Post and ABC News...
Texas murderer to be first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010
Former Texas former nursing home therapist Kimberly McCarthy, 51, will become the first woman executed in the United States since...
Surfer Garrett McNamara may have set new record for riding the biggest wave ever
American surfer Garrett McNamara may have set a new world record for riding a 100-foot wave, which would break his old record of...