AdvertisementPolice in Switzerland are asking for the public’s help in locating the person who left a very important package behind on a train – a pile of gold worth more than $260,000.Officials say 3 kilograms of gold bars were left on a passenger train travelling between St. Gallen and Lucerne in October 2019.After local police were unable to locate the owner, authorities are now seeking help from the public.Simon Kopp, the information officer for the public prosecutor’s office of Lucerne, confirmed to CTVNews.ca that the gold was discovered in a parcel by a train worker, and that there...…AdvertisementPolice in Switzerland are asking for the public’s help in locating the person who left a very important package behind on a train – a pile of gold worth more than $260,000.Officials say 3 kilograms of gold bars were left on a passenger train travelling between St. Gallen and Lucerne in October 2019.After local police were unable to locate the owner, authorities are now seeking help from the public.Simon Kopp, the information officer for the public prosecutor’s office of Lucerne, confirmed to CTVNews.ca that the gold was discovered in a parcel by a train worker, and that there...WW…

AdvertisementTORONTO --A Canadian NATO helicopter has been involved in an incident off the coast of Greece and a search and rescue mission is currently underway.In a pair of tweets, Canadian Armed Forces Operations said it lost contact with the CH-148 Cyclone, which had been deployed onboard the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Fredericton, and “was participating in Allied exercises off the coast of Greece” as part of Operation Reassurance.The military said it could not provide further information at this time because the situation was evolving, but the Armed Forces later confirmed  that...…AdvertisementTORONTO --A Canadian NATO helicopter has been involved in an incident off the coast of Greece and a search and rescue mission is currently underway.In a pair of tweets, Canadian Armed Forces Operations said it lost contact with the CH-148 Cyclone, which had been deployed onboard the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Fredericton, and “was participating in Allied exercises off the coast of Greece” as part of Operation Reassurance.The military said it could not provide further information at this time because the situation was evolving, but the Armed Forces later confirmed  that...WW…

TORONTO --A new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 that first surfaced in the U.K. has been detected in Canada, something health experts had already predicted.Ontario’s Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Barbara Yaffe, of the coronavirus variant in Durham region. The patients who tested positive are a couple, now in self-isolation.“I’m not surprised,” Dr. Brian Conway, medical director of the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre, told CTV News Channel Saturday, in the wake of the news. “Obviously, this variant has been circulating for some time before it was actually...…TORONTO --A new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 that first surfaced in the U.K. has been detected in Canada, something health experts had already predicted.Ontario’s Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Barbara Yaffe, of the coronavirus variant in Durham region. The patients who tested positive are a couple, now in self-isolation.“I’m not surprised,” Dr. Brian Conway, medical director of the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre, told CTV News Channel Saturday, in the wake of the news. “Obviously, this variant has been circulating for some time before it was actually...WW…

Share this story:TORONTO -- With the northern hemisphere officially in the winter season as of Dec. 21, many people may wish to sleep away the dark and cold days ahead. But a new study proposes that early humans may have done just that. , published in December's issue of L'Anthropologie, suggests that an extinct human species found in Spain may have had the ability to hibernate. Study authors Antonis Bartsiokas and Juan-Luis Arsuaga examined the skeletal remains of hominins using close-up photography, microscopes and CT scanning. The remains were found in a deep shaft of the Sima de los...…Share this story:TORONTO -- With the northern hemisphere officially in the winter season as of Dec. 21, many people may wish to sleep away the dark and cold days ahead. But a new study proposes that early humans may have done just that. , published in December's issue of L'Anthropologie, suggests that an extinct human species found in Spain may have had the ability to hibernate. Study authors Antonis Bartsiokas and Juan-Luis Arsuaga examined the skeletal remains of hominins using close-up photography, microscopes and CT scanning. The remains were found in a deep shaft of the Sima de los...WW…