Новости за 14.10.2017

Residents in Chatham-Kent, Ont., are being asked to stay indoors and close their windows as firefighters battle a toxic blaze that is sending thick black smoke into the sky.

Harvey Weinstein has been expelled as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences following an emergency board meeting in Los Angeles on Saturday.

What was supposed to be a celebration of Dalhousie University tiger pride turned into an embarrassment for the Halifax school after 22 people were arrested at off-campus parties Saturday morning and afternoon.

Rising winds fanned the California wildfires again Saturday, forcing hundreds more people to flee from their homes in the state's fabled wine country and testing the efforts of crews who have spent days trying to corral the flames behind firebreaks. At least 35 deaths have been reported.

Freed Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle says his three children are quickly adapting as the family spends their first full day in Canada, after five excruciating years being held captive in Afghanistan, Boyle tells CBC's Susan Ormiston.

Urgences Santé confirms a 33-year-old man died after falling five storeys when he was rappelling down the side of a Montreal building during a charity event.

Thousands of competitors from around the world are competing this weekend at the Obstacle Course Racing World Championships at the Blue Mountain Resort near Collingwood, Ont.

New research suggests that people with mild cognitive decline who are aware of their memory loss might have a lower risk of developing dementia than people who don't notice they're forgetting things.

It has been 20 years since a bus careened off a steep hill in Les Éboulements in Quebec's Charlevoix region, claiming the lives of 44 people. The town hasn't been the same since.

After learning of yet another Mountie's suicide, a Conservative MP issued an emotional plea to senators this week to quickly pass his private member's bill that would establish a national strategy to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.

A cargo plane has crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after taking off from Ivory Coast's international airport in Abidjan. Witnesses say they saw four bodies amid the wreckage.

The young boy's body was pulled from a two-storey home in Dunham in Quebec's Eastern Townships after a fire broke out just after midnight Saturday, police have confirmed.

The campaign to save NAFTA is far from over and may yet prove to have been a losing struggle, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s blitz of the capitals of Canada's two NAFTA partners planted seeds that may bear fruit down the road.

A farmer from northwestern Ontario is appealing to people online to help save her stock of a rare horse breed from being auctioned off in Manitoba — and potentially sold for slaughter as meat.

An out-of-court settlement following a recent class-action lawsuit means Canadians may be eligible for $20 or more if they purchased common household items containing foam, including couches, chairs and mattresses.

As a medical doctor, my concern is that as marijuana becomes more easily available, Canadians may become more inclined to self-medicate with this so-called "miracle drug."

In Russia, a movie about the last czar and his love affair with a ballerina has provoked a violent reaction and left many in Russia's arts community worried about their creative freedom.

Canada urgently has to figure out how to foster diversity — whether that’s based on gender, race or physical ability — in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, say contributors to a new report.

A tentative agreement has been reached to end the nearly month-long strike at the CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ont.

The government has proposed amendments to the DNA Identification Act to permit the national police force to set up new indices for missing persons, relatives of missing persons and human remains.

Cambridge Analytica says it has up to 5,000 data points on more than 200 million American voters. Now one of those voters is getting ready to sue the company to find out what it knows about him.

Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan says Harvey Weinstein used the media as "a bludgeon" to intimidate, humiliate and silence his accusers.

The federal government has released a draft of its planned drug concentration levels but admit the new rules provide no guidance on how much marijuana it would take to push a driver over the legal limit.

A new poll by Forum Research puts incumbent mayoral candidate Naheed Nenshi ahead of challenger Bill Smith by 17 points — a major departure from results put out so far by another polling firm.

Dr. Fariha Khan’s advice on warding off the flu.