New research may have answered a long-standing mystery by pinning a rough date on the earliest known humans in Canada’s oilsands region. In a recently published paper, professor Robin Woywitka of Edmonton’s MacEwan University says a combination of archeology and geology has revealed that people were living around Fort McMurray, Alta., at least 11,000 years…

Commentary Are you still human? In the near future, such a question may become very relevant. According to Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian and best-selling author of “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow,” and other books, your being merely human will one day become a big problem….