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Police are investigating after thieves hacked three banking machines in the greater Montreal area, making off with an estimated $55,000. The ATMs — which all belonged to Laurentian Bank — were located in Saint-Jérôme, Saint-Eustache and Terrebonne. According to Terrebonne police, a technician with the bank called the police around 11:55 p.m. Source

The temperature is spot on. The amount of sunlight is ideal. And the mix of melt and freeze has been perfect. But Ron Wild is having a heck of a time growing any icicles. His homemade icicle machine has frozen up. Source

The provincial government is aggressively moving ahead with plans to wean public buildings off oil-fuelled heating systems as Muskrat Falls power inches closer to reality, and Memorial University could lead this conversion strategy. A study is underway to determine whether it's feasible, from both financial and environmental standpoints, to displace the 11 million litres of No. Source

PARIS, FRANCE -- France is to ban from the end of 2021 the hugely controversial but widespread poultry industry practice of systematically slaughtering male chicks, Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume said Tuesday. "The aim is to oblige firms. Source

BANFF, ALTA. -- It turns out tourists aren't the only ones who love the national parks in the Canadian Rockies. Despite recent studies showing bird populations are declining in many areas of North America, scientists with Parks Canada have found that most songbirds are doing well in Banff, Jasper, Waterton Lakes, Yoho and Kootenay national parks. Source

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- Iranian officials and satellite images suggest the Islamic Republic is preparing to a launch a satellite into space after three major failures last year, the latest for a program which the U.S. Source

A Vancouver Island non-profit society is looking for more than 1,000 pieces of wood and fallen trees in its project to restore salmon habitat in rivers around the island. Megan Francis, operations manager with Central Westcoast Forest Society, says natural timber that falls into rivers is an extremely important part of fish habitat. Source

Conservation officers on Vancouver Island say they're confident a wolf that was caught Sunday in the backyard of a Victoria residence is the same animal known to live alone on a group of small islands off the coast of the capital city. Source

It was Aug. 12, 1884 when a young geologist, Joseph B. Tyrrell, stumbled upon a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skull, deep in the heart of Alberta's Badlands. The carnivorous dinosaur, the first of its species ever found, was later named albertosaurus sarcophagus. Source

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND -- Small earthquakes and a so-called "inflation" of the mountain, signalling a potential volcanic eruption, have been reported near Iceland's famous "Blue Lagoon," local authorities said Monday. The Icelandic Met Office declared a state of uncertainty over the weekend, following days of several smaller earthquakes and a swelling of the mountain. Source