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VIDEO: Remembering D-Day 70 years later

COURSEULLES-SUR-MER, France – As Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a private one-hour tour of a Canadian military cemetery far from the public eye, a handful of people dotted the vast expanse of Juno Beach.

UBC artists launch Northern Gateway pipeline video contest

A group of artists at UBC’s Okanagan campus is launching a contest for people to have their say about the Northern Gateway Pipeline. The contest is open to everyone – throughout BC, across Canada or anywhere in the world – to enter the People on the Pipeline Contest with a video (maximum three minutes long)...

PHOTOS and VIDEO: Knox Mountain Hill Climb

KELOWNA - The 57th annual Knox Mountain Hill Climb is over for another year. High-powered cars tore up the 2.2 km track along scenic Knox Mountain Park and spectators were treated to gut-wrenching speeds and heart-stopping elevation changes. The event ran Saturday and Sunday. Race results will be posted on the event website. InfoTel News reporter Adam...

Heart warming video of rescued beagles

A group of beagles rescued from a laboratory in Nevada are set free by the Beagle Freedom Project. The dogs have never been outside in their lives. They experience the sunshine and the feel of grass under their feet for the first time. Also today on Trending Now, Aasif Mandvi talks to Jimmy Kimmel about his...

Video of elderly two-stepping cowboy goes viral

KELOWNA - A video about the life of Arnie Davis, the elderly, two-stepping cowboy who taught hundreds of Kelowna locals to dance over the years is going viral throughout the Okanagan. The nearly 12-minute documentary, produced by Chelsea McEvoy and filmed by Ryan Tebbutt, was released on YouTube Nov. 19 and is filling up Facebook...

Too good to be true video game offer is true

BUT BE PREPARED TO BE DISAPPOINTED KELOWNA – It started Friday with tweets from Best Buy and Future Shop. Their outlets in Canada were offering free copies of Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4 and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. All you have to do to get the free video game is trade-in any current...

The worst university music video ever made

Someone really needed to have a talk with these well meaning students at LSU in Australia before they posted this horrible promotional music video to the internet. %%video1%% %%embed1%%

VIDEO: ‘Ender’s Game’ blasts ‘Bad Grandpa’ at box office

LOS ANGELES - Weekend moviegoers chose sci-fi over slapstick. "Ender's Game" scored the No. 1 slot at the weekend box office, earning $28 million in its opening weekend and sending "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" into second place, according to studio estimates Sunday. Lionsgate's adaptation earned an additional $2 million in five international territories. Based on...

Video of magician getting hit in crotch draws interest from MTV

"IT WAS A GOOD SHOT AND IT DROPPED ME TO MY KNEES" KELOWNA - A Youtube video of a Kelowna magician getting hit in the crotch by a child may be getting international exposure on the MTV show Ridiculousness. Leif David has been performing magic since he was eight years old, but says he has...

Rob Ford video recovered by Toronto police: Chief Bill Blair

TORONTO — Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair says investigators have recovered a digital video file that depicts Mayor Rob Ford and is “consistent with what had been previously described in various media reports.”

VIDEO: ‘Baby Hope’ killer case finally solved

NEW YORK – Police on Saturday announced that, after an investigation lasting more than two decades, they have arrested the killer of a child nicknamed 'Baby Hope' by detectives after her body was discovered inside a picnic cooler beside a Manhattan highway in 1991.

Quitting in style… and the videos it created

When we first saw this video by Mirna Shifrin quitting her journalism job with a funky dance video, we thought we were the only ones interested because it was about journalism. Well, nearly 10 million views and a new meme later... here is the video and some of the off-shoots including a great response from...