Author: News Room

A Kelowna, B.C., woman has been given a second chance at life after receiving a long-awaited liver transplant thanks to a living donor, an Alberta woman who was complete stranger. “She’s just the most incredible, selfless person I have ever met,” Lyndsay Richholt said from her hospital bed at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), where both she and the donor are recovering.Richholt had been living on borrowed time, in end stage liver failure from autoimmune hepatitis.“Last April, I was given six months to live by my doctors,” Richholt said.The transplant happened on Friday.It was two days later when Richholt and donor…

The original InZone M10S OLED gaming monitor stood out for a mix of reasons when I reviewed it for Polygon back in late 2024 — some good (impressively small stand, high 480Hz refresh rate) and some bad (high price, low on features versus the competition). The company is launching its follow-up model, the InZone M10S II, at the same $1,099.99 price as before, but with numerous updates to better justify the cost. It’ll come out later this year and will be sold exclusively through Sony’s online shop.For instance, it’s built with a fourth-gen WOLED panel (LG Display’s Primary RGB Tandem…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Arla Foods Ingredients has developed high-protein, nutrient-dense application concepts for users of GLP-1 anti-obesity medications, which it will showcase at Vitafoods Europe (5th-7th May 2026 in Barcelona). Originally developed to treat diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists have re-shaped the weight management market. In 2025, 11% of consumers globally [1] and 18% in the US [2] who were actively trying to lose weight reported using them, with uptake expected to rise as availability expands, tablet formats emerge and prices fall [3]. However, GLP-1 use is associated with side effects: lean muscle loss may reach…

Answers are hard to come by. That’s what a group of concerned Saskatchewan landowners have learned. The seven families live immediately adjacent to the site of Bell’s proposed AI data centre, and they’ve been asking questions for months, receiving little in the way of solid replies.In a written letter to the council at the RM of Sherwood, Sask., the group writes, “At every stage of this process our concerns have been deferred, reduced, or ignored.”They are not expressly opposed to the project, but they have concerns about how their quality of life — and their property values — will be…

Google is launching a new Chrome workflow feature that allows you to reuse your favorite Gemini commands across multiple webpages. Any AI prompts can now be saved as “Skills” in the Chrome desktop browser, letting you instantly run them across any tabs you select.“Until now, repeating an AI task — like asking for ingredient substitutions to make a recipe vegan — meant re-entering the same prompt as you visited different pages,” Chrome product manager Hafsah Ismail said in the announcement. “To make this easier, we’re launching Skills in Chrome, which lets you save and reuse your most helpful AI prompts…

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Move Industries, the core contributor of the Movement Network today announced its partnership with Avant Protocol, the institutional infrastructure for onchain savings, to integrate Avant’s yield infrastructure natively into the Movement ecosystem. The integration gives Movement users access to savUSD, Avant’s yield-bearing stablecoin, while positioning Movement as the destination of choice for fintech companies, neobanks, and payment providers that need idle capital to work harder without loosening their risk controls. It is the first integration of its kind on Movement, and one of the few DeFi yield products built to meet the…

Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC) Chief Mark Arcand is defending the renovations underway at the Emergency Wellness Centre located in the city’s west end, following mounting concerns from local residents. The renovations, taking place at the shelter located at 415 Fairmont Dr., are intended to support services currently being provided and to upgrade existing infrastructure, according to the province’s Ministry of Social Services.This includes renovating washrooms to make them more accessible, increasing the number of showers in the facility from two to 10, adding on-site laundry facilities, upgrading the fire suppression system and expanding the kitchen, equipping it with commercial cooking…

BRENTWOOD, Tenn., April 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — American Addiction Centers and filmmaker Jeffrey D. Shulman are joining forces to bring national attention to “What It Takes,” a new documentary that challenges how people understand addiction, its impact, and the path to recovery. The film’s five-city theatrical tour kicks off during Alcohol Awareness Month, a time dedicated to increasing public understanding of alcohol use disorder and reducing the stigma around seeking help. The film tells two deeply personal narratives: a West Coast family navigating alcoholism and an innovative jail-based program in Chesterfield County, Virginia, which addresses trauma and substance use…

PENSACOLA, Fla., April 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Albertsons Companies, Inc. announced today it has reached a $774 million settlement framework to resolve opioid-related claims brought by state, local and tribal governments across the country. The settlement, to be paid out over nine years, represents one of the most significant financial accountability measures yet imposed on a major pharmacy chain for its role in the opioid crisis. Albertsons operates 1,713 in-store pharmacies across a network of 2,244 retail food and drug stores in 35 states and the District of Columbia, doing business under banners including Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, ACME,…

Full specs for the Osmo Pocket 4 Pro aren’t known yet, but the camera is rumored to pair an ultrawide lens with a telephoto lens offering optical zoom capabilities, according to New Camera. It could be announced alongside the standard version of the Osmo Pocket 4 later this week, but rumors seem to point to a later arrival in May or June.Alongside the image of the dual-lens pro version of the Osmo Pocket 4, Bogdanov also shared several DJI marketing images for the standard version of the camera. The images show the Osmo Pocket 4 from several angles, as well…