Новости за 11.11.2018

OTTAWA — When she was 17 years old, Liz was coerced by a Children's Aid worker into having an abortion and being sterilized at a northwestern Ontario hospital, she says — an experience she's carried for 40 years.

OTTAWA — A tightly packed crowd has gathered in the nation's capital for the national Remembrance Day ceremonies, marking 100 years since the signing of the armistice that ended the First World War.

Britain's royal family marked the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended WWI with a special commemoration on Sunday.

It was pure coincidence that both meetings happened on the same day.

Fourteen participants in Ontario's basic income pilot project met Aug. 8 at a business incubator in the south end of Thunder Bay after the Progressive Conservative government announced it would wind the program down early.

They had been receiving cheques from the province every month, as part of a research project to measure the effect of handing out larger amounts of money than social assistance normally provides, without many requirements. Читать дальше...

For many Canadians, the word "veteran" conjures up the image of a retirement-age soldier, who served in the Second World War or the Korean War, often seen manning a poppy box or laying a wreath on Remembrance Day.

PARIS — A series of international leaders used a global commemoration of the end of the First World War to warn about the risk politicians who call themselves nationalists pose to a fragile peace, in a message aimed at the American president.

PARIS — France's president used a global commemoration of the end of the First World War to remind leaders today that the peace forged a century ago can be easily undone by rising nationalism wrapped in the mask of patriotism.

More than 100 years ago, a Canadian soldier took pause from his fighting duties at Vimy Ridge and pocketed a few acorns scattered by a downed oak tree.

OTTAWA — When the armistice that ended the First World War was signed and the guns fell silent on Nov. 11, 1918, Canadians wearily celebrated what they hoped was the start of a new era of peace.

A shocking video posted to Facebook shows a 14-year-old lying face down in a rushing stream as another teen jumps onto him and then leapfrogs to the other side of the water to avoid getting wet. Around him are other students from Nova Scotia's Glace Bay High School — watching, laughing, recording — and one takes the opportunity to throw a rock at him.

Seth Rogen is a lot of things: actor, comedian, writer, director, award-winner. But his crowning achievement might be something brand new. The Vancouver Aquarium's newest octopus-in-residence, Ceph Rogen, is named after him.