Новости за 06.10.2017

This week Ford and GM announced they are joining the rush to make electric cars mainstream. But who will win the inevitable price war?

If there's one essential truth about TransCanada's proposed Energy East pipeline, it's the project's power to divide Canadians — even after it's been abandoned.

Scientists are exploring ways to create vaccines against drug addiction. So far, there's research into vaccines for cocaine, heroin and other opioid addictions. The vaccine would prevent a high by blocking drugs from getting to brain cells.

Certainly, were the typical user to make a threat of violence against another individual, it would violate not just the Twitter rules, but likely also the law. But the president is not a typical user. When articulated by the commander in chief, the statements are a direct expression of U.S. foreign policy.

In yet another breach of privacy, Public Services and Procurement Canada has lost key legal files related to the pensions of five retired members of Parliament or their surviving spouses. The unidentified ex-MPs received an apology and an offer to cover their costs to replace the files, CBC News has learned.

A look at the important factors — and how they've changed — since the controversial pipeline project was introduced on Aug. 1, 2013

Some Canadian tourists cancelled their trips to Las Vegas after Sunday's mass shooting, but others like the Bradleys came to Sin City anyway because they wanted to show that the bad guys can't win.

Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston's Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans.

A new arena to replace the Saddledome would cost half a billion - that much the City and the Flames ownership group can agree. So why are their proposals so different? Part 2 of our civic election series.

An Edmonton bar owner has been told by the Edmonton Oilers legal team that he has to take down posters mentioning the hockey team unless he sells Molson products.

A Toronto-area video game developer has opted not to release a game called Dirty Chinese Restaurant after it was slammed as racist.

The federal government is expected to announce an $800-million settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors on Friday. But for some, money alone can't compensate for what they lost.

Police officials say detectives would have questioned former British prime minister Edward Heath over child abuse allegations if he were still alive.

Ontario is introducing regulatory changes to address “conflict of interest scenarios” involving real estate agents who represent both sides of a sale, but has stopped short of a ban on the controversial practice of “double-ending.”

The owners of Minas Brazillian Steakhouse in Calgary have added a four per cent "small business support fee" to customers' bills on the same day Alberta's minimum wage hike took effect.

A year-long look at views on life in Winnipeg suggests many in the city are happy with their station in life, but class divisions, income inequality and a general lack of knowledge underscore the need for more community-level reconciliation efforts with Indigenous Peoples.

The Supreme Court of Canada will rule Friday on whether thousands of records gathered as part of the 2006 residential school settlement should be preserved as historic records or destroyed to respect the privacy of the survivors.

Spain's Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered Catalonia's parliament to suspend a planned session next week during which separatist lawmakers wanted to declare independence — further fuelling Spain's worst political crisis in decades.

Saint John-Rothesay Liberal MP Wayne Long has been kicked off two parliamentary committees for breaking party ranks over proposed small business tax changes.

Semi-automatic weapons used by the Las Vegas shooter were reportedly equipped with bump stocks — devices that can rapidly increase the rate of fire, similar to that of fully automatic weapons, and have quickly become the focus of the gun control debate.

Syria is in the throes of its worst fighting since the battle for eastern Aleppo last year, with heavy airstrikes causing hundreds of civilian casualties, aid agencies say.

Harvey Weinstein, the larger-than-life Hollywood executive and Oscar-winner, is taking a leave of absence from his own company after an explosive exposé revealing decades of sexual harassment against women was published in the New York Times.

The highly anticipated announcement of the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is set for Friday. CBC News has compiled a list of possible front-runners.