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With the solar eclipse looming, pet owners may be wondering how to keep their animals safe during the celestial spectacle. Here's what experts say.

Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says Canada has signed a letter of intent with artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia to boost computing power.

Adoption requests came from as far away as New Zealand, but Frank the Tank, a 17-kg tortoise found wandering in a Richmond bok choy field last month, will be staying in B.C.

From a special send-off for 'Sincy,' to a massive charity fundraising haul to a lost tortoise finding his forever home, here are some good news stories from B.C. this week.

Most big grocery stores across Canada will remain closed for all of Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Loblaws, Walmart, Longo's, Metro and Costco will all remain closed.

With a name like Frank the Tank, you might think nothing could stop the 16-kilogram sulcata tortoise, but wandering alone on farmland near Richmond, B.C., certainly slowed him down.

Mike Hopcraft, owner and operator of Wild Education said last year they took in 123 animals and so far this year they have already received 117.

There were 3,943 new listings last month, a roughly 18 per cent increase from a year earlier, but new listings remained 5.3 per cent below the 10-year seasonal average.

A new exhibit opening later this month at the Assiniboine Park Zoo will introduce Winnipeggers to endangered animal species and the dedicated humans who work to keep them alive.

Kangaroo Creek Farm is home to over different 200 animals, from emus to kangaroos, and turkeys to tortoises -- fortunately none of them came into contact with the garbage.

Mr. Pickles, a radiated tortoise, is a resident at the Houston Zoo. The species is considered critically endangered due to habitat loss, poaching and the illegal pet trade.

A Belgian woman claims she is being punished for having a 'relationship' with a chimpanzee at the Antwerp Zoo.

About 4,000 of the nearly 5,500 evacuees were affected when authorities reduced the size of the evacuation zone in California.

He made his way to Halifax in the 1940s after the museum director at the time scooped him up for $5 at a roadside attraction in the state.

The front store manager of a pharmacy thought she ordered two toasters, but got 222 instead.

"For people like me, there’s a lot of 'I know you! I know you! What have I seen you in?'" Ned Beatty remarked, without rancour, in 1992.

At 12:01 p.m., Edmonton Fire Rescue Services was called to a fire at a single-family home in the area of 20 Avenue and 112A Street.

Erin O’Toole has parked himself in his made-for-TV Ottawa studio for two days a week while NDP Leader Jagemeet Singh and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau criss-cross the country.

Gus the tortoise celebrated his 90th birthday Sunday with almost 1,000 people at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax.

MONCTON, N.B. - Sounding more Hollywood caper than Animal Planet, the saga of Hercules the kidnapped squirrel monkey included a risky heist, an anonymous phone call and a secret exchange on a New Brunswick country road on Wednesday.