Новости за 22.07.2017

Jayde Penton, 22, had tickets to Ed Sheeran’s show Saturday night at the Bell MTS Centre, but when she saw a tweet from the Children's Hospital, looking for tickets for one of their young patients, she decided to give hers up so the boy could go.

B.C. teen Emily Epp has become the youngest Canadian to swim across the English Channel.

An errant U.S. airstrike killed 12 Afghan police officers and wounded two others, in a week when another 11 police were killed and six wounded in clashes with the Taliban.

For some wildfire evacuees, it's been more than two weeks since they left home. The 3,300-hectare wildfire that forced them out is now said to be 90 per cent contained.

A group of Florida teenagers who recorded a man drowning on cellphones and laughed about it rather than calling for help could face charges, according the police chief in Cocoa, Fla.

Alberta Wildrose and Progressive Conservative party members have ratified the agreement to join forces and form the new United Conservative Party, with 95 per cent from both factions voting in favour.

The Syrian army command says it has ceased its military operations in several areas near the capital Damascus and in Idlib province, but Hezbollah and Syrian troops stepped up operations against rebels in parts of Syria near the Lebanese border.

John Heard, best known for his roles in Home Alone, Big, and Beaches, died Friday. He was 72.

Three Iraqi intelligence and investigative officials have told The Associated Press that 26 foreigners — including two men, eight children and 16 women — have been arrested in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and taken to Baghdad.

"I really like the atmosphere of the meeting place in a community," says owner.

Israel's defence minister consulted with senior commanders in the West Bank on Saturday, a day after a man stabbed to death three members of an Israeli family in their home and widespread Israeli-Palestinian clashes erupted over escalating tensions at the Holy Land's most contested shrine.

War on GOOP breaks out into the open and a second look at sweetener scare. Read our weekly roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news.

Food scientists are exploring ways to turn the European green crab into a lucrative commercial industry.

It was a sunny July day on the Prairies when Laura Reeves witnessed the slow death of a secretive amphibian in southeastern Manitoba that isn't found anywhere else in Canada.

Trade your book club for a debt-destruction club, says personal-finance expert Bruce Sellery.

Despite the recent arrest of a young Saudi woman wearing a miniskirt in a video that went viral, a growing number of Canadian fashion designers are looking to prove that fashion for Muslim women can be both modest and fun.

On the field, court, pitch or pool, there was no shortage of athletic triumphs as competitors from 22 teams battled for medals in 14 sports at the North American Indigenous Games. But for many, the event was more about the spirit of competition than reaching the podium.

Scientists studying the genetic basis for dog friendliness have found it comes from a portion of their genome that is similar to the area in the human genome that relates to sociability.

The big spending comes despite the loonie's relative weakness compared to the greenback.

He has been humiliated and mocked, and repeatedly frustrated and undercut by his own boss. But the hiring of a new White House communications director seems to have been the final straw for Sean Spicer, who announced on Friday he will abandon his post as Donald Trump's press secretary after a tumultuous six-month stint.

Business reporters Renee Filiponne and Jacqueline Hansen discuss Canadians' money woes and possible solutions.

Sean Spicer may be out at the White House, but his curious legacy as a loyal-to-a-fault press secretary, willing to stake his reputation on aggressively defending his boss's most questionable assertions, will likely not be forgotten. Here are a few memorable moments on video.

Minneapolis police Chief Janee Harteau said on Friday she was "willing to step aside" following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Australian woman.

A tick species from the southeastern U.S, known to cause meat allergies, is hitching rides north.

The City of Edmonton has come up with a green solution to keeping plants along the new bike network in bloom. Two tricycles with solar-powered pumps are being used to water plants along the downtown route.