Новости за 27.01.2017

The federal government ran a deficit of $12.7 billion over the first eight months of its 2016-17 fiscal year — compared with a $1-billion surplus during the same period a year earlier.

Air Miles has lowered the value of miles in its vacation package category by about 20 per cent. It made the move without informing its collectors.

Canada's international development minister has pledged her support to a Dutch-led effort to provide funds to international organizations providing abortion services. The move comes after U.S. President Donald Trump revoked funding for those organizations.

Sinthuja Suresh gave her big brother a ride to Pearson Airport shortly before the new year. It would be the last time they saw each other.

The province's 9,300 teachers are set to return to work-to-rule job action Monday, and the tentative agreement with the province could be on the verge of collapse.

UBC, McGill and the University of Montreal have pulled their advertisements from the ultra-conservative news website Breitbart, the far-right media outlet that came under fire during the 2016 presidential election.

General Motors is cutting up to 600 jobs at its assembly plant near London, Ont.

During his first week as U.S. president, Donald Trump followed through on some of his most controversial campaign promises — riling up the public, some world leaders and the media alike. But the Republican leader also earned praise on some fronts.

Indigenous activists and members of Manitoba's NDP and Liberal parties are calling recent comments made by Premier Brian Pallister about night hunting inflammatory, disgusting and racist.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will reject Toronto’s request to impose tolls on area highways, a move the city had proposed as a way to pay for new transit projects. Wynne will speak at a news conference in Richmond Hill starting at 9:30 a.m. ET.

The Liberal government plans to enact new laws to limit cash-for-access fundraising, a senior Liberal source has confirmed to CBC News.

The Ontario health ministry has halted admissions at the Woodstock, Ont., nursing home where Elizabeth Wettlaufer is accused of killing seven elderly residents. It says "there is a risk of harm to the health or well-being of residents in the home or persons who might be admitted as residents."

British Prime Minister Theresa May said U.S. President Donald Trump has reaffirmed both countries' "unshakable commitment" to the NATO military alliance.

The ice storm that hit New Brunswick this week appears to have claimed two lives and injured two people.

A Toronto woman who helped save the life of a man in cardiac arrest at a west-end gym says a staff member and bystanders did nothing to intervene, even though GoodLife Fitness says employees are trained in CPR and the use of defibrillators.

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is a little-known, poorly understood condition. But if not treated early enough, it can result in permanent deafness.

Complicated and often unpopular, carbon taxes are already ripe for misunderstanding, a vulnerability that's only compounded in a post-truth political world.

A new federal office says it has "resolved" the cases of 11 children who keep getting stuck at airports because they are falsely matched to a name on a no-fly list. But parents say they have seen no resolution at all, as family travel plans keep getting disrupted by the security snafu.

A 79-year-old Val-des-Monts, Que., man convicted of sexually abusing two of his daughters for years and fathering three children with one of them will be sentenced today.

Canada should brace itself for an "invasion" of international tax cheats and shady businesses unless it follows the U.K.'s lead and reforms its corporate secrecy rules, warn business watchdogs and British police.

In Donald Trump's first week as president he's already signed a dozen or so executive orders and memorandums that will fundamentally change relations with his nearest neighbours for years to come.

Journalists need not line up to kiss the ring of the president. But the churlish impulse to fact-check Trump to an extreme ultimately harms the cause of journalism.

A North Carolina woman says DNA testing has revealed that she is Beothuk, a descendant of an Indigenous people from Newfoundland whose last known member died in 1829.

Dressed in a lab coat, a woman speaks to a camera and says she’s a licensed dietitian from the Kennedy Health Institute in Washington — and that the she has information on a “great and healthy” weight loss supplement. It’s a glowing testimonial. The problem? It’s fake.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to talk by telephone this Saturday, the Kremlin said, their first conversation since Trump took office.