Новости за 20.09.2017

Turtle Island Reads: Indigenous authors and stories take centre stage in Montréal, Wednesday night. Three advocates each champion their chosen work of fiction written by an Indigenous Canadian and try to persuade a live and online audience to make that book next on their reading list

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and leaving many dead or injured. The quake has killed at least 225 people, nearly half of them in Mexico City, 32 years to the day after a devastating 1985 quake.

Sen. Lynn Beyak has been removed from all Senate committees, a week after a series of controversial remarks about First Nations people came to light.

Residents in Waterton Lakes National Park returned to an intact townsite but a changed landscape more than a week after a raging wildfire in southwestern Alberta forced an evacuation of the park.

Are scientific findings a matter of opinion? Forty-three per cent of Canadians say they agree that they are, accoprding to a new poll whose results are being described as “worrisome.”

Aspiring ocean scientists and members of the public will get a rare opportunity to tour Canada's largest ocean science research centre this weekend in Dartmouth, N.S.

The Ontario government is looking at setting retail prices for recreational marijuana in the range of $10 a gram, Finance Minister Charles Sousa told CBC News on Wednesday.

Scientists have discovered a new species of hermit crab off the coast of Japan that roams the ocean floor with coral on its back.

Wiarton Willie, the albino groundhog whose annual weather prognostication is a national event and draws large crowds every Goundhog Day, has died at the age of 13.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tells the UN General Assembly it would be a "great pity" if the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers including the U.S. "were to be destroyed by rogue newcomers to the world of politics."

Jake LaMotta, the iron-chinned brawler whose exploits in and out of the ring during boxing's heyday served as the basis for Raging Bull, one of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time, has died. He was 95.

For anyone who has explored the Mushroom Kingdom of Nintendo’s video game universe, Mario’s voice is unforgettable.

Experiment to understand what causes the sky's brightest lights to take place Thursday night.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he hopes Republican senators will vote for new legislation that aims to repeal and replace the health-care law enacted by his predecessor.

Julie Payette, the retired astronaut who will become Canada's governor general on Oct. 2, has had her first audience with the Queen.

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is holding a press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET after the U.S. central bank left a key interest rate unchanged but gave indications that it expects to boost rates one more time this year.

About a third of adults sleep fewer hours per night than recommended, and many report their shuteye is fitful at times, according to Statistics Canada.

Saskatchewan MP Gerry Ritz has apologized for calling Environment Minister Catherine McKenna a "climate Barbie" on social media Tuesday night.

The leaders of the U.K., France and Italy will push social media companies today to remove "terrorist content" from the internet within one to two hours of it appearing because they say that is the period when most material is spread.

Quebec provincial police have found a body near the town of Arundel, 20 kilometres south of Mont-Tremblant, where they've been searching for 71-year-old Yvon Lacasse, who was last seen Sept. 14.

Federal NDP leadership candidate Jagmeet Singh will be endorsed by veteran B.C. MP and former leadership candidate Nathan Cullen this morning.

The sole candidate in the race to lead the Independent Senators Group (ISG) says Conservative efforts to brand him as a sympathizer with communist China are unfair.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says Canada is on track for the best economic growth in the G7 this year, raising the outlook to grow by 3.2 per cent growth this year up from 2.8 per cent. The OECD kept the global projection steady at 3.5 per cent.

Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Wednesday for dozens of children feared buried beneath a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings wrecked by the country's most lethal earthquake in a generation.

A year after Stacey Attey bought a second-hand Nissan Rogue, the Bank of Montreal informed her the man who sold it to her still owed almost $30,000 on it. CBC Montreal Investigates tried to find the seller, following a trail of suspicious transactions.