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Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A Canadian dive team searching for the century-old wreck of the Rapid City may have stumbled upon a far rarer prize: a pristine shipwreck that could date …
Read More »Fifty years on, Edmund Fitzgerald remembered through song and mystery
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. It’s been 50 years since the storied Edmund Fitzgerald and all 29 of its crew members perished during one of the worst recorded storms on Lake Superior. …
Read More »Mystery illness has Manitoba parents seeking genetic answers in Florida
It was only a week after Beau Friesen was born that his parents knew something was wrong. Two years later, they still do not know what that is. Now, the Grunthal, Man., couple are heading to Florida in search of answers. As an infant, Beau was throwing up and had …
Read More »Gorky Park, Havana Bay mystery author Martin Cruz Smith dead at 82
Martin Cruz Smith, the bestselling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with Gorky Park and other thrillers featuring Moscow investigator Arkady Renko, has died at age 82. Smith died Friday at a senior living community in San Rafael, Calif., “surrounded by those he loved,” according to his publisher, Simon & …
Read More »New Brunswick has no mystery neurological disease, scientific study concludes
A new scientific study has found no evidence of an undiagnosed mystery brain disease in New Brunswick, says a report published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, known as JAMA. Instead, an independent reassessment of 25 of 222 patients diagnosed by Moncton neurologist Alier Marrero as having a “neurological syndrome of unknown cause” concluded …
Read More »How an abandoned couch brought joy and mystery to an English village
As It Happens5:59How an abandoned couch brought joy and mystery to an English village It was a flash of inspiration that set the community photo project in motion. On a quiet Sunday morning in early April, in the rural village of Lydbrook, England, photographer Alex Elton-Wall leapt out of bed …
Read More »Premier ready to ban glyphosate if link found to mystery brain illness
Premier Susan Holt says her government would be willing to ban the herbicide glyphosate if a new investigation finds a link to the purported mystery brain illness that a Moncton neurologist says he is tracking. The province has launched a new investigation into the hundreds of cases, saying the symptoms …
Read More »Mystery of blobs washing up on Newfoundland’s beaches solved, as scientists pinpoint chemical
MUN chemistry professor Chris Kozak says he’s run the mystery blobs through a battery of tests to determine it’s a man-made latex. (Jeremy Eaton/CBC) The mystery behind white blobs washing ashore on eastern Newfoundland’s beaches that gripped public attention this fall — and commanded international media interest along the way …
Read More »Looking for the next mystery bestseller? Winnipeg crime bookstore can solve the case – Winnipeg
Some 250 coloured tacks pepper a large-scale world map among bookshelves at Whodunit Mystery Bookstore. Estonia, Finland, Japan and even Fenwick, Ont., have pins representing places outside Winnipeg where someone has ordered a page-turner from the independent bookstore that specializes in mystery and crime fiction novels. For 30 years, the …
Read More »Winnipeg police look to identify mystery woman found dead Aug. 10 – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Winnipeg police are hoping to identify a woman found dead on Main Street last month. Police said they’ve had no luck identifying her through “numerous investigative avenues.” The mystery woman is described as in her 20s or 30s and around five feet …
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