Новости за 29.03.2017

Calgary-based Cenovus Energy says it will spend $17.7 billion to acquire most of the Canadian assets of ConocoPhillips, making the Houston-based company the latest international player to exit the oilsands.

Among those cheering loudest when the Republican plan to remake the U.S. health-care system collapsed last week were some of Donald Trump's strongest supporters. And they'd vote for Trump again.

Alberta Education Minister David Eggen says Jason Kenney’s position that parents should be notified when their kids join a gay-straight alliance shows his true views.

Researchers have discovered a fish venom that contains opioid properties, which could help in the development of new pain-killing drugs.

There have been 25 cases of E. coli infections linked to a recalled batch of Robin Hood brand all-purpose flour, the Public Health Agency of Canada says.

Ottawa's police chief and the head of the Ottawa Police Services Board are urging caution about wristbands being worn by police in support of an officer charged with manslaughter in the 2016 death of Abdirahman Abdi.

Via Rail has announced a special youth rail pass for just $150 that will allow those between the ages of 12 and 25 to travel on all routes, as much as they want for the month of July. But the passes are now "temporarily suspended."

Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance said there are no systemic problems at Royal Military College of Canada as the military released a report today on suspected suicides and sexual misconduct at the college in Kingston, Ont.

Ashley Aleman thought she wouldn't see her tabby cat, BooBoo, again. BooBoo went missing in Watsonville California in 2013 and was recently found as a stray in Puslinch Township.

Senator Murray Sinclair says preserving the record of the wrongdoing committed under the Indian residential school system is the best way to fight back against those who deny its negative impact on Indigenous people.

Canadian Ece Heper has been released from jail despite being found guilty of insulting the Turkish president on Facebook.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was interrupted by a camcorder-wielding heckler who called him a "scumbag" during a stop in Winnipeg to promote the Liberal government's $7-billion plan to create more child-care spaces.

Officials are trying to reassure the public that Montreal's Trudeau airport is secure and there are strict screening procedures in place to vet employees following a report about potentially radicalized workers.

Instead of fearing classrooms full of students in a pot-induced haze, experts are hopeful that making marijuana legal will open up opportunities to better educate young people about the risks of using the drug.

A new public awareness campaign has been launched to try and protect seniors from being scammed online.

A new study strongly suggests that human impact may be to blame for stalling weather patterns that contribute to extreme weather events.

Cristiano Ronaldo now has an international airport named after him. The Real Madrid striker was joined by dozens of guests and hundreds of fans in his native Madeira Islands for an official ceremony renaming the local airport as Aeroporto Cristiano Ronaldo.

Residents have complained to their political leaders about the pervasive smell of pot in their neighbourhoods, which is likely the result of medicinal marijuana licenses that allow people to grow in their own homes.

This weather forecast is like a meal you dread: sour and crunchy to start, but ending with a sweet treat to wash away the misery.

Here's a pretty great list of things to do today in Hamilton.

Canopy Growth Corp., Canada's biggest publicly traded marijuana company, is getting ready to launch a new online store. The move hints at how legal marijuana sales might look in the near future.

Britain is set to formally file for divorce from the European Union today, walking out on a 44-year relationship, enacting the decision made by U.K. voters in a referendum nine months ago and launching both Britain and the bloc into uncharted territory.

Purolator will be accepting packages as usual today after the company reached a tentative agreement with its largest union overnight, averting a strike.

Behind the scenes with a parent who stepped in to defend Muslim community members after a Peel school board meeting was derailed by Islamophobic comments.

Members of the Ottawa Police Service and their supporters have purchased hundreds of wristbands showing solidarity with Daniel Montsion, the officer charged with manslaughter in the death of Abdirahman Abdi last July.