A two-year-old female orca calf, named Kwiisahi, or Brave Little Hunter, by the Ehattesaht First Nation, is spotted at the Little Espinosa Inlet near Zeballos, B.C., Friday, April 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Conscious, sentient thought likely for many or most animals: scientists

Scholars say birds, fish, squid and bees among the creatures capable of having ‘internal experience’

A two-year-old female orca calf, named Kwiisahi, or Brave Little Hunter, by the Ehattesaht First Nation, is spotted at the Little Espinosa Inlet near Zeballos, B.C., Friday, April 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Comox Valley cinematographer and diver Maxwel Hohn captured the enigmatic giant Pacific octopus for National Geographic's Secrets of the Octopus. Photo submitted/Maxwell Hohn

B.C. man unlocks secrets of the giant Pacific octopus for Disney+

Secrets of the Octopus National Geographic series now streaming

Comox Valley cinematographer and diver Maxwel Hohn captured the enigmatic giant Pacific octopus for National Geographic's Secrets of the Octopus. Photo submitted/Maxwell Hohn
Chicken is the most favoured sandwich filling across Canada according to a recent Chefs Plate survey online search data analysis. (Black Press Media file photo)

Chicken reigns supreme in Canadian sandwich desires

Roast beef pops up twice during Google data Top 10 search by Chefs Plate

Chicken is the most favoured sandwich filling across Canada according to a recent Chefs Plate survey online search data analysis. (Black Press Media file photo)
In the treeplanting world, out in the sometimes lonely and sometimes dangerous wilderness, a dog is a beloved companion. Block Dog is the latest film by former treeplanter Everett Bumstead, and looks at the replanting industry through the eyes of some dogs in the Cariboo forest. (Photo from Here Boy Films)

Barking up the right tree: B.C. treeplanting life focus of new dog-umentary

Block Dog picked up by CBC Gem because of its intrinsically Canadian story

In the treeplanting world, out in the sometimes lonely and sometimes dangerous wilderness, a dog is a beloved companion. Block Dog is the latest film by former treeplanter Everett Bumstead, and looks at the replanting industry through the eyes of some dogs in the Cariboo forest. (Photo from Here Boy Films)
Zach Lemann, curator of animal collections for the Audubon Insectarium, prepares cicadas for eating at the insectarium in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The insectarium plans to demonstrate ways to cook cicadas at the little in-house snack bar where it already serves other insect dishes. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Monstrous little cicadas make for some fine dining as U.S. preps for invasion

Bug Appetit teaching how to serve up noisy insects as they prepare to erupt in the trillions

Zach Lemann, curator of animal collections for the Audubon Insectarium, prepares cicadas for eating at the insectarium in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The insectarium plans to demonstrate ways to cook cicadas at the little in-house snack bar where it already serves other insect dishes. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Congregation Emanu-El synagogue in downtown Victoria is one of numerous synagogues in Canada. In 2024, Passover begins on April 22. (Submitted)
Passover, an important Jewish observance, begins on April 22, 2024. How much do you know about the customs and traditions associated with Passover. (Pixabay.com)

QUIZ: Are you ready for Passover celebrations?

An important event for Jewish people around the world begins on the evening of April 22

Congregation Emanu-El synagogue in downtown Victoria is one of numerous synagogues in Canada. In 2024, Passover begins on April 22. (Submitted)
Passover, an important Jewish observance, begins on April 22, 2024. How much do you know about the customs and traditions associated with Passover. (Pixabay.com)

‘Brave is unbeatable’ is the theme for Canada’s Olympic team in Paris

Marketing campaign for summer’s athletic showcase unveiled

The RCMP Musical Ride’s Name that Foal contest is back, with children 14 and younger across Canada encouraged to send in their suggestions by April 26, 2024. (White Rock RCMP/X photo)

Of course you can name a horse: RCMP wants children’s help naming foals

Kids 14 and younger encouraged to suggest names starting with ‘A’ for Musical Ride horses

The RCMP Musical Ride’s Name that Foal contest is back, with children 14 and younger across Canada encouraged to send in their suggestions by April 26, 2024. (White Rock RCMP/X photo)
A droid trainer introduces the new droid BDX during Star Wars Season of the Force at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on Friday, April 5, 2024. Season of the Force is an annual event that celebrates all things Star Wars, including themed attractions, food offerings and merchandise, at Disneyland. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)

Gates open for major Disneyland expansion around original site

Disney could spend $1.9B over the next decade to transform its 490-acre Anaheim property

A droid trainer introduces the new droid BDX during Star Wars Season of the Force at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on Friday, April 5, 2024. Season of the Force is an annual event that celebrates all things Star Wars, including themed attractions, food offerings and merchandise, at Disneyland. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)
Grade 12 students Jenna Hampton, left, and Sheridan Sinow, were drawn to the aerial rings, part of the aerial setup that also included a stable trapeze and silks. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)

VIDEO: Circus art the focus of phys ed at Lower Mainland high school

Cirque Jeunesse B.C. makes second visit to Maple Ridge Secondary School

Grade 12 students Jenna Hampton, left, and Sheridan Sinow, were drawn to the aerial rings, part of the aerial setup that also included a stable trapeze and silks. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)
FILE - Women with glasses of beer pose for a photo on day one of the 188th ‘Oktoberfest’ beer festival in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. The southern German state of Bavaria will ban the smoking of cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens, and even at the world’s most popular beer festival, the Oktoberfest. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Cannabis OK in Bavaria, but not at Oktoberfest and other festivals

State to limit public consumption after Germany legalized possession starting this month

FILE - Women with glasses of beer pose for a photo on day one of the 188th ‘Oktoberfest’ beer festival in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. The southern German state of Bavaria will ban the smoking of cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens, and even at the world’s most popular beer festival, the Oktoberfest. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Managing finances as a couple can be a challenge, especially when people aren’t sharing the load. (Pixabay.com)

Sharing the load of money management can help a couple’s relationship

Author says both partners should be invested participants in the process

Managing finances as a couple can be a challenge, especially when people aren’t sharing the load. (Pixabay.com)
A Quebec regional health authority says no residents were impacted after a wild turkey broke in to a long-term care centre south of Quebec City over the weekend. A wild turkey is shown at the Falardeau Zoo and refuge in Saint-David-de-Falardeau, Que., on Friday, April 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Turkey runs wild inside Quebec long-term care home, no one hurt

Turkey eventually left through the window it had broken after staff locked it into empty room

A Quebec regional health authority says no residents were impacted after a wild turkey broke in to a long-term care centre south of Quebec City over the weekend. A wild turkey is shown at the Falardeau Zoo and refuge in Saint-David-de-Falardeau, Que., on Friday, April 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Town residents back row from left, Karen Smith, lMarvin Torwalt, and Deloris Chometsky, and front row from left, Mayor Shelley Vallier, and town administrator Jordy Hamilton stand and sit for a photograph outside the town’s newly-built wedding chapel in Love, Sask. on Thursday, April 11, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards

Love says everybody should be in Love (even if it feels a little flat)

Saskatchewan village embraces its name with new chapel and other ways to share the Love

Town residents back row from left, Karen Smith, lMarvin Torwalt, and Deloris Chometsky, and front row from left, Mayor Shelley Vallier, and town administrator Jordy Hamilton stand and sit for a photograph outside the town’s newly-built wedding chapel in Love, Sask. on Thursday, April 11, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
A Quebec zoo took advantage of last Monday’s total solar eclipse to study the behaviours of some of its animals. A Japanese macaque looks on at the Granby Zoo in Granby, Que., in a Jan. 17, 2024, handout photo. The zoo’s research and conservation department was approached by an astrophysics professor from the Université du Québec à Montréal about taking part in an animal behaviour study and collecting data on how they reacted during the rare phenomenon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Granby Zoo, Keith Bartlett

Darkness of the eclipse sheds new light on zoo animal behaviour

Animals reacted in a variety of ways — much of them unexpected as it got dark during Quebec day

A Quebec zoo took advantage of last Monday’s total solar eclipse to study the behaviours of some of its animals. A Japanese macaque looks on at the Granby Zoo in Granby, Que., in a Jan. 17, 2024, handout photo. The zoo’s research and conservation department was approached by an astrophysics professor from the Université du Québec à Montréal about taking part in an animal behaviour study and collecting data on how they reacted during the rare phenomenon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Granby Zoo, Keith Bartlett
Stands are under construction on the Champ-de-Mars, foreground, with the Eiffel Tower in background, Monday, April 15, 2024 in Paris. The Champ-de-Mars will host the Beach Volleyball and Blind Football at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

100 days before kickoff, Paris Olympic organizes want to rekindle the love

Organizers promise socially positive, less polluting, and less wasteful Olympics

Stands are under construction on the Champ-de-Mars, foreground, with the Eiffel Tower in background, Monday, April 15, 2024 in Paris. The Champ-de-Mars will host the Beach Volleyball and Blind Football at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
A scene from Stanley Kubrick’s movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Do you know the name of the computer on the spacecraft in this movie? (Photo contributed)

QUIZ: Looking towards the stars

How much do you know about the facts and fiction of space exploration?

A scene from Stanley Kubrick’s movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Do you know the name of the computer on the spacecraft in this movie? (Photo contributed)
Fatou the gorilla celebrates her 67th birthday at Berlin’s Zoo, Friday April 12, 2024. Berlin’s zoo is celebrating the 67th birthday of Fatou the gorilla, its oldest resident, who it believes is also the oldest gorilla in the world. Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then West Berlin in 1959. She lives in an enclosure of her own and prefers to keep her distance from the zoo’s other gorillas in her old age. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

Fatou, believed to be world’s oldest gorilla turns 67 in Berlin zoo

Gorilla lives in an enclosure of her own, prefers to keep her distance from the zoo’s other gorillas

Fatou the gorilla celebrates her 67th birthday at Berlin’s Zoo, Friday April 12, 2024. Berlin’s zoo is celebrating the 67th birthday of Fatou the gorilla, its oldest resident, who it believes is also the oldest gorilla in the world. Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then West Berlin in 1959. She lives in an enclosure of her own and prefers to keep her distance from the zoo’s other gorillas in her old age. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)
View of one of the Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) aircraft being hoisted out of the water for repairs at Prince Rupert on April 7, 1924. (Contributed by Friends of Magnuson Park/likely US Army Air Service)

100 years later, recalling B.C.’s pivotal role in first round-the-world flight

On April 6, 1924, four planes reached Prince Rupert, their first stop in a flight around the world

View of one of the Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) aircraft being hoisted out of the water for repairs at Prince Rupert on April 7, 1924. (Contributed by Friends of Magnuson Park/likely US Army Air Service)
Bradley Smith will be cruising a portion of the Trans-Canada Trail in June on his electric mountain skateboard to break three Guinness World Records, including longest skateboard journey (Photos courtesy of Bradley Smith)

B.C. skateboarder to cruise over the Rockies in Guinness World Record bid

Bradley Smith is attempting to break three world records for electric skateboarding

Bradley Smith will be cruising a portion of the Trans-Canada Trail in June on his electric mountain skateboard to break three Guinness World Records, including longest skateboard journey (Photos courtesy of Bradley Smith)