Новости за 08.02.2017

The leader of a Native American tribe attempting to block the Dakota Access oil pipeline said on Wednesday the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe may have exhausted legal options to stop the project after the company building it won federal permission to tunnel under the Missouri River.

An extraordinary 11th-hour government attempt to stop a judge from ruling on a bitter eight-year legal fight over the Sixties Scoop is under fire from the plaintiffs and observers, who denounced it Wednesday as galling and unprecedented political interference in judicial proceedings.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to Europe next week to mark an important milestone for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union.

At knee-level on a closet door, a small bloody handprint left behind in what appears to have been a violent struggle to get a five-year-old boy and his grandparents out of their home. DNA from the blood matched that of Nathan O'Brien, 5, and his grandmother, Kathy Liknes.

A man in B.C. has paid $700 in fines to reinstate two recreational peewee girls hockey teams in the Kennebecasis Valley that were being sanctioned by Hockey New Brunswick for missing a mandatory tournament in Dalhousie in December.

The NDP will ask on Thursday that the House of Commons call on the government to apologize for breaking its promise to implement electoral reform.

Investors didn't have much of a reaction to the U.S. president's latest Twitter tirade on Wednesday, as shares in retailer Nordstrom, which Donald Trump accused of treating his daughter unfairly, barely budged.

Fadwa Alaoui, a woman from Brossard, Que., who's entered the U.S. several times without incident, says she was turned away at the border Saturday after being questioned in detail about her religion and her views on Donald Trump.

South Korea is preparing for its 2018 Olympic Games, and that includes building a hockey team to take on Canada — and a strategy for dealing with military threats from the North.

Scientists have found a new species of gecko that sheds its large, fish-like scales — and part of its skin — in order to avoid being eaten by predators.

The three biggest metropolitan areas in the country — Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver — are now home to more than one-third of all Canadians with a combined population of 12.5 million, with almost one half living in Toronto and its suburban neighbours, new census data shows.

A growing proportion of Canadian women choosing to have only one child or none at all.

Almost four out of every 10 Canadians polled in a recent BMO survey admit they've withdrawn money out of their RRSP early, and almost a fifth of them don't ever expect to replenish what they've taken out.

The three prairie provinces boast the top rates of growth in the country for the first time since Confederation as Canada's population increases to 35.2 million, according to 2016 census data released today by Statistics Canada.

The mother of a Canadian man killed fighting Islamic State militants in northern Syria is questioning why her son's body still hasn't been recovered when the remains of a British fighter who died on the same day were on the way to the United Kingdom.

New Brunswick's population has dropped 0.5 per cent since 2011 — to 747,101. It's the only province that experienced a decline over a five-year period, according to the 2016 census released today.

Erik Guay won the men's super-G race at the alpine skiing world championships on Wednesday and Manuel Osborne-Paradis captured bronze as the veteran Canadians upset the favoured Norwegians.

An 18-month-old boy was taken to hospital in critical condition with severe burns to his face and limbs after a fire in his crib at the family home in Ottawa early this morning.

A Russian court has handed a five-year suspended sentence to prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny after finding him guilty of embezzlement, a move that will complicate his plans to run for president against Vladimir Putin in 2018.

The opposition parties say the overpayment of federal public servants is just the latest instalment in the Phoenix pay system and it won't be the last problem — as tax time approaches.

The parents of a child attending a French school in Vaughan say they withheld consent for their son to be photographed in class because they didn't want the photos used on social media. Little did they know he wouldn't be allowed to appear in his class picture.

The federal government's attempt to close the gap in health care outcomes for First Nations children is progressing at a snail's pace in some provinces because Ottawa has only spent a fraction of the money it set aside for treatments, according to documents shared with CBC News.

Pure HMV rewards members say they are disappointed after learning all of the points they've collected over the years became worthless when the entertainment retailer went into receivership. HMV will be shutting down its Canadian stores at the end of April.

There could be layoffs in Alberta's solar-panel industry because customers are waiting until the government unveils its incentive program.

Canadian Border Services officers can already open packages to look for drugs. Bill C-37 says they also should be able to open letters, but civil rights activists say that's going too far.