Новости за 19.04.2018

A Hamilton-area MPP questioned a staffer's commitment to his job for taking parental leave to care for his baby, in a voicemail obtained by CBC News.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped short today of echoing British Prime Minister Theresa May's call for Commonwealth members to ban single-use plastics — but pointed to a planned discussion at the next G7 summit later this year.

Deep in the forests of Borneo live species of ants with a rather novel way of fending off enemies: they explode.

One of the B.C. First Nations identified by Kinder Morgan as having granted consent for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to cross through three of its reserve lands says it hasn’t made a final decision on whether it will let the project through.

One of the B.C. First Nations identified by Kinder Morgan as having granted consent for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to cross through three of its reserve lands says it hasn’t made a final decision on whether it will let the project through.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse.

Business groups and free-market advocates are expressing disappointment with Thursday's ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that dealt a blow to those who want to see interprovincial trade barriers knocked down.

Canadian weightlifter Christine Girard can finally call herself an Olympic champion. The International Olympic Committee made it official Thursday, declaring that Girard will be awarded the gold medal in the 63-kilogram weight class from the 2012 Summer Games.

This week’s Chinese maneuvering over Taiwan's independence was as much a propaganda exercise as a military one, firing off the kind of verbal shots the Chinese leadership does more and more.

Senior members of the Facebook leadership team faced a rough ride from MPs on Thursday for their failure to inform more than 600,000 Canadians that their privacy might have been compromised.

Senior members of the Facebook leadership team faced a rough ride from MPs on Thursday for their failure to inform more than 600,000 Canadians that their privacy might have been compromised.

More than one in three deliveries in B.C. hospitals were by C-section last year, the highest rate of surgical birth in Canada, new national data reveals.

Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician who pioneered research into autism and after whom Asperger syndrome is named, "actively co-operated" with a Nazi program under which disabled children were killed, according to a newly published academic paper.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled unanimously that provinces and territories have the constitutional right to restrict the importation of goods from each other, as long as the primary aim of the restriction isn't to impede trade.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled unanimously that provinces have the constitutional right to restrict the importation of goods from each other, as long as the primary aim of the restriction isn't to impede trade.

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled provinces have the constitutional right to restrict the importation of alcohol from another province, as long as the primary aim of the restriction is not to impede trade.

The Southwest Airlines pilot being called a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet's damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls.

Felicien Labat was “the last of the priests” that spoke her language and understood the region’s elders, said Lucy Jackson.

Police in Saskatchewan say it's too early to say whether charges will be laid in the fatal crash involving a semi-truck and the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team that left 16 people dead.

Police in Saskatchewan say it's too early to say whether charges will be laid in the fatal crash involving a semi-truck and the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team that left 16 people dead.

The RCMP will update the public on the investigation into the Humboldt Broncos team bus collision that left 16 people dead.

A Minnesota doctor accused of illegally prescribing an opioid painkiller for Prince a week before the musician died from a fentanyl overdose has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a federal civil violation, according to documents made public Thursday.

Prosecutors in the Minnesota county where Prince died will announce Thursday a decision on whether there will be any criminal charges following a two-year investigation into the music superstar's accidental fentanyl overdose.

In the week since Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks shop, the men have met with the company's CEO and have started pushing for lasting changes to ensure what happened to them doesn't happen to anyone else.

Researchers in Windsor are researching why Costa Rican yellow toads turn bright yellow to mate. And they're using 3D printed robo-toads to do it.