Record Jobs In Canada Since 1976

Canada saw a record jobs gain in April, with a net 106,500 jobs added on a seasonally-adjusted basis. Economists had forecast just 15,000. This is the largest gain since 1976, when Statistics Canada began collecting data. Wages also rose 2.5% on a one-year basis, the strongest increase Canada has seen for eight months. The positive jobs news comes amid an otherwise stagnant economy, with the Bank of Canada lowering the domestic growth forecast for 2019 just last month.

GPS Reality Game Pokémon Go breaks App Store Record for Most Downloads in First Week of Release

Wow! Augmented reality game, Pokémon Go has become the most downloaded mobile app in the history of the App Store in its first week of release, although no concrete download numbers have been made available.

The app, a free-to-play mobile title from developer Niantic in collaboration with The Pokémon Company, was released on July 5th in Australia and New Zealand and a day later in the US. It launched in Japan on Friday.

The game has also sat comfortable in Apple‘s top free and top grossing charts in the App Store, beating out mainstays like Game of War, Candy Crush Saga, Facebook Messenger, and Snapchat. 

New Record! 1.8 million vehicles sold in Canada in 2014,

Ford was the sales leader in a record year for Canadian auto sales. (Associated Press)

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Chrysler Canada sales were up 12 per cent in 2014 and General Motors sales up six per cent in a year that set a record for Canadian car sales.

Car sales are lower, but surging demand for light trucks helped set a new record of 1.849 million vehicles sold last year.

Ford was the top seller in 2014, with 291,951 new vehicles delivered in Canada, up 2.9 per cent from 283,588 in 2013.

Truck sales totalled 229,603, up from 215,247, while car sales slipped to 62,348 from 68,341. It was Ford’s best year in Canada since 1997.

Chrysler Canada says it set a new record for annual sales in 2014 of 290,004 cars and trucks, up from 260,015 in 2013.

Japan population fell by a record 268,000 in 2014

Japan’s population fell by a record 268,000 people last year, new data show, with preliminary figures showing just above 1 million births in 2014, NPR.com reports.

The figures released by the country’s health ministry showed that the estimated number of people who died in 2014 was 1,269,000, about 1,000 above the previous year. The number of births was 1,001,000, down about 29,000 from 2013. The total population declined by a record 268,000.

The Kyodo news service adds that the number of births could slide below 1 million when new numbers are released in June.

New Year's Update: BREAKING A RECORD IN DUBAI

The Gulf Arab emirate of Dubai was aiming to break the world record for the largest LED-illuminated facade with its spectacular display centred on the world’s tallest building.

Some 70,000 LED panels around the 2,722-foot Burj Khalifa flashed colored lights and projected images of the country’s leaders when clocks there struck midnight as a massive fireworks display erupted. The celebration draws throngs of thousands of spectators every New Year’s Eve.

Emaar Properties said a team from Guinness World Records monitored the preparations. Last year, Dubai won the title for the world’s largest firework display, according to Guinness.

Canada Record Highest Numbers Of New Citizens In Any Given Year

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander responds to a question in the House of Commons, Nov. 3, 2014. Adrian Wyld

The Canadian Press
The federal government says Canada welcomed a record number of new citizens in 2014.

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says more than 260,000 people became new Canadians during 2014.

Alexander says in a release that’s more new Canadians than in any year in Canada’s history and more than double the number from last year.

Alexander cites recent changes to the Citizenship Act for improving the citizenship application process, and says applicants are already seeing results.

Almost 1.2 million Australia Christmas lights set world record

1.2 million Australian Christmas lights set record. By By Rod Mcguirk, Associated Press

An Australian lawyer has set a world record by stringing up almost 1.2 million Christmas lights in the center of the national capital.

Guinness World Records on Friday confirmed that the 120 kilometers (75 miles) of multicolored wire strung in the shape of three interconnected giant, wrapped Christmas gifts in a downtown Canberra mall was the largest ever image made of LED lights.

Lawyer David Richards assembled the Canberra light show with the help of an army of volunteers and powers it with electricity donated by a local power company.

Canada Household debt hits record high

Credit cards are displayed in Montreal on December 12, 2012. A sustained period of low interest rates has allowed Canadians to rack up record levels of debt which, along with tumbling oil prices, pose a threat to the country's financial stability, economists say. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Alexandra Posadzki CPA sustained period of low interest rates has allowed Canadians to rack up record levels of debt which, along with tumbling oil prices, pose a threat to the country’s financial stability, economists say.

The total amount of credit market debt — which includes mortgages, non-mortgage loans and consumer credit — held by Canadian households hit a record high in the third quarter, climbing to 162.6 per cent of disposable income from a revised 161.5 per cent in the second quarter.

That means Canadians owed about $1.63 for every dollar of disposable income, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada.

“The Bank of Canada has a lot on its plate in terms of assessing risk to the Canadian economy,” Leslie Preston, an economist at TD Economics, said in a note.

Amazing Thierry Henry Soccer Record

Kobe Bryant eclipses Jordan for 3rd on career scoring list

In this April 2, 2013 file photo, Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant gestures during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in Los Angeles. AP/Mark J. Terrill 

on Krawczynski | The Associated PressKobe Bryant has reached rarefied air.

The Los Angeles Lakers star passed Michael Jordan for third on the NBA’s career scoring list Sunday night in a 100-94 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Bryant entered the game needing nine points to pass the icon with whom he is often compared. He got the mark with two free throws with 5:24 to play in the second quarter.

“I’m just honoured to be here, man, to still be playing,” Bryant said. “I appreciate being able to play this long. Careers normally don’t last this long. I really appreciate the opportunity to still be out there playing and performing and doing what I do.”

Now only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone have scored more points than Bryant.

Kobe Bryant Top Legend Michael Jordan On The All-Time Scoring List

Record Breaker Jose Mourinho reaches 400 #BPL points in the fewest matches

RIP! World record holding two-faced cat dies at the age of 15

ADAM WITHNAL | INdependent 
The world’s oldest two-faced cat has died of cancer, after defying veterinary science to reach the ripe old age of 15.

Named Frank and Louie – or “Frankenlouie” for short – the animal was declared the longest-surviving two-faced cat on the planet when he was entered into the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records.

Born with three eyes, two noses and two mouths, Frank and Louie belonged to a group known as Janus cats, named after the Roman god.

Janus cats suffer from a rare congenital disorder known as craniofacial duplication, the result of hyperactivity from the protein that governs facial development in foetuses. They almost never survive, usually through difficulties with the development of the oesophagus.

Speaking to the Telegram of Worcester in Massachusetts, Frank and Louie’s owner Martha Stevens said he was put down after his condition deteriorated over Thanksgiving.

Oppa Gangnam Style video breaks YouTube record with over 2bn views

Gangnam Style hit music video by South Korean singer, PSY, has exceeded YouTube's view limit, prompting YouTube to upgrade its counter. The video which was released in 2012, was announced to be its most watched ever and has been viewed more than 2,147,483,647 times. 

YouTube has now changed the maximum view limit to 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or more than nine quintillion.

On December 1, YouTube posted a statement saying: "We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer... but that was before we met Psy." 

Lady Gaga Reveals She Was Raped at 19 by a Record Producer

According to Lady Gaga while speaking on the Howard Stern show, her attacker was 20 years older than her and he was a record producer. She also states that she went through emotional therapy to recover from the event.

The singer, who appeared on Howard Stern’s radio show, made the claim after the host asked her about the meaning of her song “Swine.”

Howard Stern mentioned that the song alluded to a sexual assault, he then asked if she’d been raped by a record producer.

Lady Gaga replied: “I went through some horrific things that I’m able to laugh [at] now, because I’ve gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years. I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19. I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, ‘Oh, is this just the way adults are?’ I was very naive.”

Lionel Messi Undeniable Golden Records

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Untold Snowfall In Buffalo, NYC

Carolyn Thompson, The Associated Press

Homeowners opened their front doors to find themselves sealed in by sheer walls of white. Shovelers turned walkways into head-high canyons. A woman gave birth in a firehouse after the snow prevented her from reaching the hospital.

Even for Buffalo, a place that typically shrugs at snow, this was an epic snowfall -- the kind of onslaught folks will be telling their grandchildren about.

The Buffalo area found itself buried under as much as 5 1/2 feet of snow Wednesday, with another lake-effect storm expected to bring 2 to 3 more feet by late Thursday.

"This is an historic event. When all is said and done, this snowstorm will break all sorts of records, and that's saying something in Buffalo," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a visit to the city.

Google becomes first to rent world biggest digital billboard in Times Square

Google has become the first company to rent to the world's largest and most expensive digital billboard in Times Square, New York.

The billboard is eight storeys high and is estimated to cost $2.5m (£1.6m) to hire for four weeks.

The screen, which is the size of a football field, is mounted on the side of the Marriot Marquis hotel.

Around 300,000 pedestrians are estimated to pass by the billboard every day.

Times Square's brightly-lit billboards are some of the most iconic and well-known outdoor advertising spaces.

Ayanna Williams’s 23-Inch Fingernails Made ‘Ripley’s Believe It Or Not’ Book

Ayanna Williams is being put in the spotlight as she makes 2015 edition of Ripley’s ‘Believe It Or Not’ Book. Ayanna Williams is a mother of 5 and grandmother of 17 from Houston, and she says that she has been growing her nails for the past 12 years. According to her, her nails take her about 20 hours (spread over a week) to paint and manicure but it does not stop most of her day-to-day activities.

British Columbia Woman Chugs For Beer Mile World Record

Runners participate in the West Valley Track Club's "beer mile" race in San Francisco in a 2014 handout photo. The beer mile consists of four cans of beer consumed over the course of a mile. The Canadian Press

Lori EwingThe Canadian Press
Kirsty Smith is a lean triathlon machine, all perfectly sculpted muscle and athleticism packed into a 110-pound frame.

She can also chug beer with the best of them.

For the past few weeks, the 30-year-old from North Vancouver, B.C., has put been putting back pints like a German during Oktoberfest — all part of the training for her run at the women’s beer mile world record.

“I’ve been practising chugging beers, as ridiculous as it sounds,” Smith says. “My guy friends like it, they think it’s hilarious. They’re like ‘We’ll race you chugging beer.’ Even my mom’s boyfriend wants to race me in drinking.”

The beer mile was born, so the story goes, back in the late 1980s, when a group of Canadian distance runners were enjoying a post-workout beer.