Новости за 31.08.2017

Hot, dry weather and low water flows have left Alberta's westslope cutthroat trout on the brink of extinction, according to local wildlife groups.

Two staffers at a central Alberta hospital have been charged in the assault of a 88-year-old woman who was being cared for at the facility.

Frank Zampino, the one-time chair of Montreal's executive committee who's on trial for fraud, conspiracy and breach of trust, defended his role as part of the "big machine" that is Montreal.

Thieves stole 20 backpacks from Nanaimo's That 50s Barber Shop ahead of its back to school charity event that offers free school supplies and haircuts to low income kids.

While looking for signs of intelligent life, astronomers have detected 15 fast radio bursts from a distant galaxy.

An Edmonton university lost $11.8 million after staff failed to call one of its vendors to verify whether emails requesting a change in banking information were legitimate.

A B.C. woman has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Air Transat alleging the airline ruined her wedding last month by misrepresenting flights as non-stop.

Californian Angie Garcia says she's been a follower of Bret (The Hitman) Hart since the '80s and has started a petition to persuade the museum to immortalize the Calgary wrestler.

A police deputy was sent to hospital after inhaling fumes from an explosion, fire and smoke at a flooded chemical plant outside Texas. Here’s what we know about the chemicals burning there.

A tracker of gasoline prices predicts that parts of Ontario are in for an 'eye-popping' jump at the pump amid the impact of tropical storm Harvey on Houston and the U.S. oil infrastructure.

Manitoba RCMP have found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing after investigating two cases of babies being switched at birth in the same year at Norway House Indian Hospital.

Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Justice is blaming “an administrative error” for the delay in the sentencing hearing for the teen behind the La Loche shootings.

Quebec City is being urged to pour more resources into investigating anti-Muslim attacks, in the wake of the recent firebombing of a car belonging to the leader of a local mosque.

Long lines formed at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg as hundreds of evacuees fleeing forest fires near northern Manitoba First Nations arrived in the city. About 3,700 people from three remote First Nations have been forced from the homes by a wildfire.

The United States is retaliating against Russia by forcing closure of its consulate in San Francisco and scaling back its diplomatic presence in Washington and New York.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canada national council convention in Montreal

Iraq's prime minister on Thursday declared the town of Tal Afar "fully liberated" from the Islamic State group after a nearly two-week operation, the latest blow to the extremist group which ran nearly a third of the country three years ago.

Dear Diary, Oh god. I can’t believe I got placed in Grade 6 again. And so did he.

No doubt you've seen the horrifying images of rafts of thousands of fire ants floating through the floodwaters left by Tropical Storm Harvey. Here's everything you wanted to know about them.

Four members of the Canadian Forces who called themselves Proud Boys and disrupted a Mi'kmaq ceremony in Halifax on July 1 have been allowed to return to their regular duties.

The city of Frankfurt will evacuate more than 60,000 people this weekend to defuse a Second World War bomb found during construction work.

A prosecutor says a Pakistani court has sentenced two former police officers to 17 years in prison for failing to provide adequate security to assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

Escalating efforts to repatriate one of the ruling Communist Party's most wanted exiles, Chinese police have opened an investigation on a new allegation, rape, against New York-based billionaire Guo Wengui.

Hundreds of evacuees from a northern First Nation in Manitoba spent another night sleeping on an airport floor and in a school gymnasium, waiting for flights south as a fire nearly twice the size of Winnipeg rages nearby.