Новости за 19.01.2016

The fire began early in the day at the posh hotel where Princess Diana spent her final hours before the car crash that took her life

The move is part of a decision to prioritize new infrastructure in the two provinces because the impact of the oil-price shock is strongest there, government sources told Bloomberg

The British Columbia government and B.C. Nurses Union are working together to create more than 1,600 nursing positions across the province.

The couple got into an argument over his having taken his uncle’s child daughter as his fiancée, making her his second wife. Khan took a knife and cut off his wife’s nose

Postmedia Network Canada Corp. announced Tuesday it will integrate the newsrooms of Sun and Postmedia newspapers in Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, resulting in about 90 job losses

NEW YORK — As a young man, Emerson Etem misses the energy and adventure of Manhattan. As a young hockey player, he should benefit from the quiet predictability of the Vancouver Canucks.

Canadian households could soon be carrying the heaviest debt-to-income loads in history, reaching 174% later this year, according to a new report by Canada’s budget watchdog

Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos argue their Netflix docu-series — which follows the conviction of Wisconsin-native Steven Avery for the murder of local photographer Teresa Halbach – is neither a contemplation nor damnation of the innocence of its subject

San Francisco is a city with serious food game, whether playing as multi-starred cuisine served in a white tablecloth hush or a simple crab cocktail eaten amid the boisterous clamour of Fisherman's Wharf

Syrians who have recently escaped say disillusionment is growing as IS has failed to install a utopian 'Islamic' rule of justice, equality and governance

Chinese firms that buy cobalt from the Democratic Republic of Congo and supply phone and laptop makers may be acquiring the mineral from mines that rely on child labour, group says

The report documented a wide range of human rights abuses, including the IS group’s conscription of some 3,500 people into slavery, mainly from the Yazidi minority

Parks Canada will also be investigating to determine if they will be charged under the National Parks Act for entering Glacier National Park on snowmobiles

Police say 24-year-old North Vancouver native Matt Hutchinson and Kelsey Annese, 21, from Webster, N.Y., may have been asleep in bed when the two were stabbed to death by a bitter ex-boyfriend in a double murder-suicide in upstate New York Sunday.

Nearly two years after a court stayed charges against Mouna Diab, who had been accused of smuggling arms parts to Hezbollah, the government is still balking at granting her a passport

Besides its entertaining story lines, Fargo keeps us glued to the screen with a parade of vintage land yachts, including a 1973 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron coupe.

Authorities in central Georgia say a 74-year-old woman froze to death after she tried to help her wheelchair-bound husband outside their home

Republican operatives are attempting to pick their Democratic opponent in the general election, and they’re making clear they’d rather face Sanders than Clinton

Suspended Sen. Patrick Brazeau was injured in an incident at his rural Outaouais home Monday evening, and rumours in the community say the injuries may be serious. So far there are few details. The Sûreté du Québec confirmed its officers went to Brazeau’s home in the community of Mayo, a little northeast of Buckingham, about 10 […]

A German company that has taken control of the Seattle-based Clipper ferry operator plans to start running a high-speed passenger ferry between Victoria and downtown Vancouver this spring. “This is huge for us,” said Merideth Tall, the founder, CEO and chairwoman of Clipper. She said the deal allows her to retain a large stake in the company.

Premier Christy Clark at scrum at #BCTECH Summit on government looking at housing tax proposed by UBC and SFU business and economy professors.

The president of the Academy issued a statement promising more diversity, and quickly, after both Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith spoke out

TOKYO - The star of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," about a dolphin-killing village in Japan, was detained Tuesday by immigration authorities at Tokyo's Narita international airport.

Yasutaro Koide, who was born on March 13, 1903, died two months short of his 113th birthday. Japan is home to a rapidly aging population and some 61,000 centenarians

The reports say defence ministers from the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Australia and the Netherlands will take part in the talks