Новости за 02.06.2017

White House officials said on Friday they did not know yet whether President Donald Trump will seek to block former FBI director James Comey from testifying to Congress next week, a move that could spark a political backlash.

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Mavis Otuteye's family in Ghana is reeling with news of her death in a drainage ditch as she tried to walk into Canada last week, and immigration experts say she probably could have made it legally into Canada without taking that dangerous journey.

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt launched a vigorous defence of Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement, but refused to say whether the president believes climate change is a hoax.

Ireland's governing Fine Gael party has elected Leo Varadkar, the gay son of an Indian immigrant, as its new leader and the country's likely next prime minister.

China and Europe pledged on Friday to unite to save what German Chancellor Angela Merkel called "our Mother Earth," standing firmly against President Donald Trump's decision to take the United States out of the Paris climate change pact.

Beatrice Hunter, a Labrador woman sent to jail this week after she told the court she could not promise to obey an injunction against protesting at Muskrat Falls, is now behind bars at Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's.

The Conservative Party is demanding that the National Firearms Association destroy a party membership list that it appears to have illicitly obtained.

Shane Chisholm is a Canadian living in Nashville, and while the Penguins and Predators take to the ice to fight for the Stanley Cup, Chisholm will be playing his own replica as an upright bass.

CBC News has obtained a scathing internal report ordered by the federal government to explain why Shared Services Canada has seen such a string of information-technology failures since its creation in 2011. The document paints a dismal picture of weak managers in far over their heads.

Scholastic says it will stop distributing an unofficial Minecraft book that compares an Indian character's name to a fart.

Two black bears broke into a Rossland home through a basement window and refused to leave the property.

Problems with the Phoenix pay system for Canadian government employees were "stabilized" in March and April, but new collective agreements coupled with the recent surge of summer hires have stalled the repair job, according to an update from Ottawa.

The Prime Minister's Office says it is not aware of any telephone conversation between Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump on the U.S. president's private cellphone.

British police investigating the Manchester Arena attack cordon off an area around a car that may be important to the investigation as they hunt for clues about the movements of the suicide bomber.

Embattled comedian Kathy Griffin says she's not afraid of Donald Trump and plans to keep making fun of him but maintained that she's sorry for a video that depicted her holding a likeness of the president's severed, bloody head.

Saskatoon's police chief says officers "dropped the ball" when they refused a lactating mother a breast pump while she was being held in police custody. Lillian Desjarlais was in pain and unable to feed her son for three days. The Public Complaints Commission has ruled it was neglect of duty.

A growing number of Canadian companies are creating products and experiences that they hope are worthy of an Instagram post, writes Dianne Buckner.

Officially, the oilpatch says Trump pulling out of the Paris accord is bad news. Unofficially though, it's pretty low down a long list of problems.

The Canada Revenue Agency has calculated the gap between personal income taxes owed and taxes actually paid, at $8.7 billion for 2014. The shortfall does not include any estimate of the taxes lost because of offshore tax havens. That more difficult calculation is expected next year.

A murder is a murder no matter the victim. But some tend to resonate more than others in the public consciousness. If past cases are any indication, we might soon forget the name Elizabeth Wettlaufer.

Methane continues to seep out into Arctic waters, raising the question of whether the greenhouse gas could reach the atmosphere.

CBC News has learned of a major privacy breach at Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) affecting almost 13,000 federal employees. Personal details such as workers' salaries were exposed.

Reconsidering Quebec's role in Canada will only open the door to more division, more acrimony, more effort diverted from other important issues.

The question of whether Elizabeth Wettlaufer believed herself an angel of mercy, acting on the instructions of her elderly patients to assist them in ending their lives, was answered in a chilling videotaped confession played in a packed Woodstock, Ont., courtroom.