Новости за 02.01.2016

The New Year means that Texans are allowed to carry a holstered pistol in public for the first time in over a century, under an "open carry" law passed in 2015 by the Republican-dominated legislature.

Saad Gaya, 28, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2010 for plotting to bomb three Toronto targets

Canadian defenceman Joe Hicketts says he was delayed for an hour when he couldn't produce enough pee for a doping test at the world junior hockey championship. Hicketts says he drank about four litres of water to get the job done.

There will be no successful title defence for Canada’s national junior hockey team.

Execution of Nimr al-Nimr has inflamed tensions between regional Sunni and Shia powers in the Middle East and elsewhere

Linus Soderstom stopped 17 shots for shutout

Goal at the five-minute mark of overtime secured the win for Russia after Kamenev forced overtime by scoring with 44 seconds remaining in regulation time

Saudi Arabia says it has executed a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members, signaling it would not tolerate attacks by either Sunni jihadists or minority Shi'ites seeking equality.

Al-Qaeda’s East African affiliate features video of Trump calling for “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”

Vancouver earns its fourth win in six games

Swimmers around the country braved icy Canadian waters as part of the New Year's Day polar bear dip tradition. Crowds came to join in or just watch, with some dressing up for the occasion.

Deaths of 47 prisoners, including a prominent Shi’ite Muslim cleric, spurred protests in Saudi Arabia and condemnation throughout the Middle East

Ann McGrath is an NDP stalwart described as ‘very down-to-earth, very pragmatic, very thoughtful’

As flawed as our first-past-the-post system is, it has its virtues. The greatest one is clarity

Today’s topics include: the right to die, mental health reforms, sick notes, drones ... and more

When you get paid to understand the undercurrents of politics, it’s embarrassing to look back and realize that so much was either missed or misunderstood

The question of 2016 will be whether our governments and corporations can avoid the horrendous big-project mistakes of the past

Subzero ArcticGuard Snow and Ice Windshield Cover

This streamlined semi-autonomous racer could become one of the fastest electric car in the 0-75 Kw category

Merchandise exports from industries relying primarily on technology, productivity and skilled labour – instead of just the availability of natural resources – command premium prices on global markets and are growing like gangbusters in Canada

No need to be alarmed over a rise of financial technology companies – they’re simply picking up the slack in underserved markets

Fintech is one of the hottest startup subsectors in the technology world right now, prompting fears that they could start to eat the traditional financial institutions’ lunches

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At least two gunmen and a guard were killed in an attack on an Indian Air Force base on Saturday near the border with Pakistan, officials said, in an apparent challenge to attempts to revive a dialogue between the nuclear-armed neighbours

In the same week that comedian Bill Cosby was arrested on sexual assault charges, his wife, Camille Cosby, learned she must testify in a civil case against the entertainer filed by seven women who said he defamed them, court documents said