An RCAF CF-18 takes off from CFB Bagotville, Que. on Thursday, June 7, 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan)

Blue lights mark 100th anniversary of RCAF April 1 across Canada and the world

RCAF attempting to break world record for most landmarks illuminated in 24 hours.

An RCAF CF-18 takes off from CFB Bagotville, Que. on Thursday, June 7, 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan)
Automotive journalist Keith Morgan reviews some of the highlights of the Vancouver International Auto Show, running March 20 to 24 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Screenshot / Today’s Drive

Vancouver International Auto Show is bigger and better than ever

Keith Morgan shares some of the highlights of this year’s show, March 20 to 24

  • Mar 21, 2024
Automotive journalist Keith Morgan reviews some of the highlights of the Vancouver International Auto Show, running March 20 to 24 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Screenshot / Today’s Drive
FILE - A patient arrives at the Massachusetts General Hospital emergency entrance, Friday, April 3, 2020, in Boston. Doctors in Boston say they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday, March 21, 2024, it’s the first time a pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

American surgeons transplant pig kidney into human patient in Boston

It’s the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person

FILE - A patient arrives at the Massachusetts General Hospital emergency entrance, Friday, April 3, 2020, in Boston. Doctors in Boston say they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday, March 21, 2024, it’s the first time a pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
A wooden bridge leading to the Heart Shaped Waterfall on the island of St. Helena on Feb. 21, 2024. The trek is one of the remote territory’s 21 scenic hiking trails of varying difficulty. (AP Photo/Nicole Evatt)

St. Helena: for those who really want to get away from it all (and Napoleon)

Tiny island in the mid-Atlantic is one of the world’s most remote destinations

A wooden bridge leading to the Heart Shaped Waterfall on the island of St. Helena on Feb. 21, 2024. The trek is one of the remote territory’s 21 scenic hiking trails of varying difficulty. (AP Photo/Nicole Evatt)
FILE - A cane corso competes at the 140th Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in New York. French bulldogs remained the United States’ most commonly registered purebred dogs last year, according to American Kennel Club rankings released Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The cane corso is now 16th in the rankings. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
FILE - A cane corso competes at the 140th Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in New York. French bulldogs remained the United States’ most commonly registered purebred dogs last year, according to American Kennel Club rankings released Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The cane corso is now 16th in the rankings. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Allan Visser, a third-generation tulip farmer, is interviewed next to Theo the robot, in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. An artificial intelligence robot is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from Dutch tulip fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color. The robot is replacing a dwindling number of human “sickness spotters” who patrol bulb fields on the lookout for diseased flowers. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

AI robot farmer keeping Dutch tulip fields healthy

Machine checking plants for diseased bulbs and removing them before disease spreads

Allan Visser, a third-generation tulip farmer, is interviewed next to Theo the robot, in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. An artificial intelligence robot is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from Dutch tulip fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color. The robot is replacing a dwindling number of human “sickness spotters” who patrol bulb fields on the lookout for diseased flowers. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
The Banff Springs Hotel is in Banff National Park, in Alberta. Do you know when this park was established? (Contributed)

QUIZ: Are you ready for the start of spring?

The season of new life and new growth officially begins on March 19

The Banff Springs Hotel is in Banff National Park, in Alberta. Do you know when this park was established? (Contributed)
A car became high-wired in a boulevard on 48th Avenue in Vernon just before 6 p.m. on Friday, March 15. (Submitted photo)

How a car ended up high wired in Vernon

Vehicle gets lodged on power pole guy wire Friday, March 15

A car became high-wired in a boulevard on 48th Avenue in Vernon just before 6 p.m. on Friday, March 15. (Submitted photo)
Rufus, a raccoon with alopecia that causes hair loss is shown in this recent handout photo posted on Facebook. A rare bald raccoon is in the care of a Nova Scotia shelter, where staff hope she’ll grow her fur coat - including a bandit-like, black streak across her eyes. (Facebook.com/hopeforwildlife)

Meet Rufus, the furless raccoon seeking refuge at Canadian shelter

Named after a naked, squeaky mole-rat character in the children’s television show Kim Possible

Rufus, a raccoon with alopecia that causes hair loss is shown in this recent handout photo posted on Facebook. A rare bald raccoon is in the care of a Nova Scotia shelter, where staff hope she’ll grow her fur coat - including a bandit-like, black streak across her eyes. (Facebook.com/hopeforwildlife)
Kyne Santos, Canadian drag queen and TikTok personality, poses for a photo at her Kitchener, Ont., home on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Santos, who has a popular video series of math tutorials presented in drag, combined her love for math and drag in a recently published book titled Math in Drag. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn

VIDEO: Mathematics and drag are all about creativity and shattering stereotypes

Shortly after “Math in Drag” hit the shelves in book stores across…

Kyne Santos, Canadian drag queen and TikTok personality, poses for a photo at her Kitchener, Ont., home on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Santos, who has a popular video series of math tutorials presented in drag, combined her love for math and drag in a recently published book titled Math in Drag. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn
This image of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, can be seen on Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Junction City, Ohio. (Wikimedia Commons)

QUIZ: How Irish are you?

March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, a time to celebrate all things Irish

This image of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, can be seen on Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Junction City, Ohio. (Wikimedia Commons)
Lucas Mason Yao from Pitt Meadows, B.C., holds a pie with a Pi sign on it in a 2023 handout photo. Yao has memorized the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter to 2,030 digits, far beyond the three-point-one-four that’s close enough for most people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Cindy Liu

Meet B.C. boy Lucas Mason Yao, who has memorized 2,030 digits of pi

The feat that he achieved last year took 23 minutes to recite and earned him 115th place in the world

Lucas Mason Yao from Pitt Meadows, B.C., holds a pie with a Pi sign on it in a 2023 handout photo. Yao has memorized the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter to 2,030 digits, far beyond the three-point-one-four that’s close enough for most people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Cindy Liu
David Beckham went snowboarding at Island Lake Lodge. (Instagram)

David Beckham ‘bends’ it on the slopes in Fernie

David Beckham was in Fernie to snowboard at Island Lake Lodge

David Beckham went snowboarding at Island Lake Lodge. (Instagram)
FILE- Cherry blossoms blooming are a welcome sign of spring. (Ashley Wadhwani-Smith/Black Press Media)

British Columbians help predict cherry blossom bloomings in global contest

Vancouver cherry trees expected to bloom four days earlier than last year, warm February a factor

FILE- Cherry blossoms blooming are a welcome sign of spring. (Ashley Wadhwani-Smith/Black Press Media)
Popularity of last year’s new 15-member dance crew at Bandits home games at Langley Events Centre convinced organizers for the basketball team to bring the dancers back again this season. Auditions are being held Sunday. (Bandits/Special to Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: Steal a Bandits dance spot

Auditions are Sunday at Langley Events Centre for the local pro basketball team’s 2024 dance crew

Popularity of last year’s new 15-member dance crew at Bandits home games at Langley Events Centre convinced organizers for the basketball team to bring the dancers back again this season. Auditions are being held Sunday. (Bandits/Special to Langley Advance Times)
Manager Stephen Jarrett displays their National Pie Championships 1st place winning country apple pie at Michele’s Pies, Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in Norwalk, Conn. Math enthusiasts and bakers celebrate Pi Day on March 14 or 3/14, the first three digits of a mathematical constant with many practical uses. Around the world many people will mark the day with a slice of sweet or savory pie. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Why March 14 is the perfect day for a slice of pi

Pi Day has gained momentum as a way to draw attention to math, Einstein and pastry

Manager Stephen Jarrett displays their National Pie Championships 1st place winning country apple pie at Michele’s Pies, Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in Norwalk, Conn. Math enthusiasts and bakers celebrate Pi Day on March 14 or 3/14, the first three digits of a mathematical constant with many practical uses. Around the world many people will mark the day with a slice of sweet or savory pie. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Rocky the raccoon took quite the tumble between periods of the Kelowna Rockets game on Saturday night, Mar. 9 at Prospera Place. (@Kelowna_Rockets/X)
Rocky the raccoon took quite the tumble between periods of the Kelowna Rockets game on Saturday night, Mar. 9 at Prospera Place. (@Kelowna_Rockets/X)
Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge program windows are seen on a computer screen, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in New York. In a world where the spread of technology makes photo manipulation easy, a photo can sometimes raise as many questions as it was meant to answer. That was seen in recent days when controversy swirled around an image of Kate, Princess of Wales, and her three children. (AP Photo/Sydney Schaefer)

Photo manipulation has gone mainstream: what does that mean for you?

Just because you see something doesn’t mean you can absolutely believe it

Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge program windows are seen on a computer screen, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in New York. In a world where the spread of technology makes photo manipulation easy, a photo can sometimes raise as many questions as it was meant to answer. That was seen in recent days when controversy swirled around an image of Kate, Princess of Wales, and her three children. (AP Photo/Sydney Schaefer)
This undated photo provided by NASA shows four Expedition 70 crew mates posing in the pressure suits they will wear when they return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon “Endurance” spacecraft. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mohgensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. The quartet splashed down off the coast of Florida on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, completing a six-and-a-half-month space research mission. (NASA via AP)

Four astronauts from four countries return to Earth after six months in orbit

Four astronauts from four countries caught a lift back to Earth with…

This undated photo provided by NASA shows four Expedition 70 crew mates posing in the pressure suits they will wear when they return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon “Endurance” spacecraft. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mohgensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. The quartet splashed down off the coast of Florida on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, completing a six-and-a-half-month space research mission. (NASA via AP)
FILE - Britain’s Kate, Princess of Wales smiles during her visit to Sebby’s Corner in north London, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Princess Kate apologized Monday, March 11, 2024 for “confusion” caused by her editing of a family photo released by the palace — an image of the British royal and her children that was intended to calm concern and speculation about the princess’s health, but had the opposite effect. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File )

Princess of Wales apologizes after release and withdrawal of doctored photo

Family photo intended to calm concern and speculation about royal’s health, but had opposite effect

FILE - Britain’s Kate, Princess of Wales smiles during her visit to Sebby’s Corner in north London, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Princess Kate apologized Monday, March 11, 2024 for “confusion” caused by her editing of a family photo released by the palace — an image of the British royal and her children that was intended to calm concern and speculation about the princess’s health, but had the opposite effect. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File )