Новости за 26.03.2024

In a rare move, lawyers representing four Canadian men held in prisons in northeastern Syria have asked Canada's top court to reconsider its decision not to hear an appeal claiming Canada has a duty to bring them home.

Officers were still on scene Tuesday afternoon at the rural Saskatchewan home where RCMP say four people from one family were found dead Sunday.

Multiple whirlwinds have been whipping through the same parking lot over the past several days thanks to warm, calm conditions.

In a newly published report, electricity providers across the country warn that a looming shortage of wooden utility poles is threatening the reliability of Canada’s electricity grid. That warning comes just as the federal government is investing billions of dollars in expanding transmission and production to supply a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association says violence in schools has reached a level never seen before and, alongside ballooning classroom sizes and rapidly declining teacher support, has left its members wrestling widespread burnout.

People fleeing gender-based violence will be able to find safe housing more quickly, thanks to a first-of-its-kind Manitoba and federal government program, the province says.

Two suspects have been arrested following the death of a toddler in a Quebec City family daycare.

Alberta's first and only training program for physician assistants, at the University of Calgary, is gearing up for an August launch, sparking hopes it could provide some relief to the province's health-care crisis.

The Niagara Falls, Ont. tourist attraction has been under investigation by Ontario's Animal Welfare Services since 2020.

One woman's case against Montreal billionaire Robert Miller, who has been accused of paying underage girls with money and gifts in exchange for sex, has been tossed. She received $50,000 during a meeting last year with Miller's representatives.

Hazing activities involving animal urine, incitements to undress in public and other forms of humiliation also occurred in 2019, according to Radio-Canada sources who described those actions as "traditions."

Hundreds of employees from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) gathered on the picket line Tuesday as they began strike action.

The company, Dynasty Gold Corp., says it's being tarnished by baseless allegations and the timelines make no sense — but ombudsperson Sheri Meyerhoffer said companies are responsible for holdings they jointly control.

A spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says 18 Canadians were brought out of Haiti by helicopter this morning.

A senior Bank of Canada official says the need to improve productivity has reached an emergency level as the economy faces a future where inflation may be more of a threat than in the past few decades.

There was no roster makeover, blockbuster trade or eye-popping free-agent signing for the Toronto Blue Jays this past off-season. They are essentially running it back with virtually the same core as last year and hoping the bats return to form.

Canada Goose Holdings Inc. says it is laying off 17 per cent of its global corporate workforce.

Const. Scharnil Pais was one of the officers at the scene when Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup was hit by a vehicle in an underground parking garage at Toronto City Hall shortly after midnight on July 2, 2021. Under cross-examination today, Pais said he punched Umar Zameer "in the face area" while the man was handcuffed on the ground.

After recent controversies left the Hamilton Jewish Film Festival without a venue, it's found another location ready to host it on the big screen this April. Meanwhile, the Playhouse cinema defends its decision to postpone it.

A downtown building in North Bay, Ont. is considered a total loss after a fire in the early morning hours on Tuesday.

A man has been arrested by RCMP in northern Manitoba after a 45-year-old woman was found dead inside a home in Pimicikamak Cree Nation on Monday.

Two properties belonging to music mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York.

The natural world is full of gender diversity, according to a new documentary airing on CBC's The Nature of Things. The episode takes viewers to the Royal Botanical Gardens and other sites. 'I hope more trans people feel seen and more cis people feel compassion for them,' says the episode editor, who's from Hamilton.

A parliamentary committee has agreed to question key witnesses about how two scientists studying deadly viruses at a special lab in Winnipeg were able to work closely and covertly with China.