Sue O’Brien gets anxious — “shaky,” she said — as soon as a storm is in the forecast.  “We call it PTSD, and I don’t think that’s a stretch,” she admitted. “As soon as the winds start … you start getting really worried.” O’Brien, who is now retired, said she has spent $100,000 trying to…

On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lépine walked into École Polytechnique de Montréal and fatally shot 14 young women who were studying to be engineers. During the rampage, Lépine, who had failed to gain admission to the university, shouted, “You’re all a bunch of feminists and I hate feminists!” The brutal, targeted mass shooting hit close to…

YouTube Rewind, the video platform’s year-in-review, arrived in a brand-new format on Thursday after a torrent of negative reviews in 2018. That year’s video — which featured a monologue by Will Smith and the slogan “Everyone Controls Rewind” — was widely mocked and eventually gained 17 million downvotes, making it the most disliked video in the site’s…

Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies said Thursday it received more than 3,000 reports of sexual assault, including rape, related to its trips in the United States in 2018 — a time when it operated roughly 1.3 billion rides. Uber said the 2018 figures represented a 16 per cent drop in the rate of incidents from the previous year…

Farmers and trappers can keep using sodium cyanide bombs to kill coyotes and other livestock predators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Thursday, rejecting calls for a ban despite repeated instances of the devices poisoning other wildlife, pets and people. Instead, the EPA is revising the regulations for using the M-44 devices, the agency said in a…

A new study has found that underwater speakers and the use of sound can help to nurse dying coral reefs back to health. Marine biologist Tim Gordon said the unusual experiment worked because while many people think of the ocean as silent, healthy coral reefs “are some of the noisiest ecosystems there are underwater.” “There’s this constant crackle of shrimps…