Новости за 07.10.2017

Thousands of people rallied in Madrid and Barcelona in a last-ditch call for Spanish and Catalan leaders to stave off a national crisis amid Catalonia's threat to secede.

People held demonstrations across Russia on President Vladimir Putin's 65th birthday Saturday in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Police allege a stolen car that blew through a red light, colliding with a bus that careened into a Brandon, Man., building on Friday was driven by a 12-year-old.

Police have arrested rapper Nelly after a woman said he raped her in a town outside Seattle, an accusation denied by the Grammy winner's attorney.

There won't be any more power outages for Vince Sharpe, a resident of Inuvik, N.W.T. At least for up to 36 hours, thanks to the capacity of his new Powerwall — Tesla's backup battery source that stores energy for homes.

Dennis Moulton has turned his lifelong love of Transformers and storytelling into a stop-motion animation YouTube project.

Two seniors have been living in a borrowed minivan since May because they cannot afford to find a place to live.

Halloween costume stores seem to be getting the message about cultural appropriation, but some are still stocking offensive costumes, says an Indigenous social media activist.

London Metropolitan Police say they have detained a man near London's Natural History Museum and "enquiries to establish the circumstances and motive are underway" after a car struck and injured pedestrians.

After more than two years of trying to stop or alter Lululemon founder Chip Wilson's plans to build a huge dock at his Sunshine Coast property, neighbours say noisy construction has now begun on the project.

Hurricane Nate is expected to make landfall near New Orleans late Saturday, after drenching Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras, leaving at least 21 people dead.

Here's this week's roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news.

Taking their cues from police, most news organizations didn't refer to the Las Vegas shooting as "terrorism" — and that's a problem, according to Indira Lakshmanan of the journalism think-tank the Poynter Institute.

Whitehorse's annual All Schools Food Drive was so successful this year that the local food bank ran out of room. "The food drive has become so massive that we need to rent an entirely different space to store the food," said Tristan Newsome, executive director of the Whitehorse Food Bank.

A 19-year-old woman has spoken to CBC News about her relationship with accused Edmonton attacker Abdulahi Sharif. "Susan" has known him for almost two years and admits she's baffled by the charges Sharif faces.

Danish police says divers found the body parts on Friday, near where journalist Kim Wall's torso was found in August after she went on a trip with an inventor on his submarine for a story she was covering.

Wildlife groups say the large number of animals being killed by vehicles is putting some species in danger.

A doggy daycare in Scotch Lake, N.S., is offering a new and special service that its clientele — owners and pets alike — are growing to love. Goodhands Boarding Kennel has been taking care of dogs for six years. This week, it began a pickup and drop-off service, taking dogs from home to daycare and back.

Nova Scotia's famed giant pumpkin regatta is seeing a surge in interest comparable to when Martha Stewart was supposed to take part. But this year it's not a celebrity driving the number of pumpkin racers — it's simply the date.

"We honour those who survived atrocities at the hands of the Nazi regime, and welcome their courageous stories of hope and perseverance," read the plaque now removed from the new Holocaust memorial in Ottawa. No special mention of Jews.

The Liberal government has infuriated small business owners from coast to coast to coast with its recent proposed changes to the tax system, but after weeks of blowback, Finance Minister Bill Morneau isn't shying away.

Almost 50 years ago, just 69 per cent of Americans said they could vote for a black man to be the U.S. president — the same number of Canadians who told a pollster this week they could vote for a party led by a Sikh.

Are gamers who post videos of themselves playing on YouTube violating copyright laws? If this issue ever goes to court, it could change the landscape of YouTube and Let's Play culture forever, writes Jonathan Ore.

Radicalization of young Canadians is a often a local problem that requires programs tailored to specific cities, towns or even neighbourhoods. That's among the preliminary findings of a Canadian centre for prevention of violence, created in 2016.

The Energy East pipeline was mourned this week as a "nation-building project." But if there is a national project to grapple with here it already exists at one end of that proposed pipeline.