Новости за 15.03.2016

‘Dalton explained how he has experienced a full body takeover, that is how he can understand the other mass shootings,’ the detective wrote after interviewing him

Ohio emerged as potentially the key battleground and the businessman remained tied in polls with John Kasich, the popular local governor

Willie Desjardins didn’t sound like Jim Mora, but everyone else did when they repeated the Canucks coach’s pre-game comment about still going for the playoffs.

It’s been that kind of season for the Vancouver Canucks. Actually, it’s been worse than that. More like one step forward, two steps back.

It took one deathly ill patient, an enthusiastic hospital team and only 19 minutes for a new North American — and perhaps even world — medical record to be set at Vancouver General Hospital last Friday for an emergency heart procedure. Retired engineer Max Morton’s heart was crashing when his wife, Sharon, took him to the emergency department. Once at the hospital, Morton’s blood pressure fell rapidly and only half the necessary blood was pumping in the correct direction. The culprit was a previously... Читать дальше...

Dr. Ellen Wiebe’s journey to become the first physician to publicly acknowledge assisting with a death started long before she injected drugs into the arm of a Calgary woman two weeks ago. Wiebe, who practices in B.C., assisted with the death after an Alberta judge granted the severely ill woman the right to choose the timing and manner of her own death. The woman could not find a physician in Alberta to help, so she travelled to B.C. to die.

‘I find that (April) Luckese ... lost her patience with Duy-An and assaulted her, causing the skull fracture. There is no other rational explanation,’ the judge ruled

The house, with an estimated value of $21.8M, was ‘sold with a leaseback and potential buy-back,’ Black wrote in a statement. The sale saved it from going to auction

After more than a year of photographing three Vancouver heroin addicts, documentary photographer and Kwantlen Polytechnic University instructor Aaron Goodman is giving them a voice by ensuring their thoughts on each of the pictures are included in their online publication. The result is a powerful and innovative approach to documentary photography that accomplishes what Goodman set out to do — humanize drug users and help viewers reach their own conclusions about Vancouver’s safe-injection treatment program.

As Premier Christy Clark marks her fifth year in office, U.S. regulators have served up some discouraging news about the current prospects for selling North American liquefied natural gas in Asian markets.

By advertising, unflinchingly, his contempt for traditional standards of decorum, honesty and competency, Donald Trump made them irrelevant

Commercial real estate sales in the Lower Mainland saw a record-breaking year in 2015 following a strong fourth quarter, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

Pipeline equipment and portable work camps are among the 2,600 items up for sale this week in what could be one of the biggest ever auctions for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers’ Grand Prairie, Alta. site, and another signal of how tough things are getting in the energy sector. Two companies that are liquidating all of their equipment, referred to as “total dispersal”, triggered the sale, said Simon Wallan, Ritchie Bros. vice-president of sales. The sale is an additional auction to the company’s typical five-sale annual calendar.

The pair were given one-way tickets by Saskatchewan’s ministry of social services, prompting outrage in both provinces and accusations they had been treated inhumanely

Conversations that Matter features Paul Woo, CEO of HQ Vancouver, on why Metro Vancouver needs to attract more head offices or run the risk of failing to realize our potential as a world-class city. This is episode 76 in a series of videos by Stu McNish.

Lt.-Gen. Steve Bowes revealed the key appointment, but not the general's name, during an interview with the National Post

TORONTO - Toronto has joined the growing list of Canadian cities moving closer toward setting up safe-injection sites.

Former Vancouver elementary school teacher Glen Hansman will be the new president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. Hansman, 42, was elected Monday by acclamation, after serving six years as a vice-president of the organization. His term will begin July 1. Jim Iker will continue as president until June 30, when he will move to the position of past president. Iker served three terms as president, which is typically the maximum a president serves.

The report also says the move of 600 organized-crime, financial-crime and drug investigators to terrorism probes is stretching the organization thin

Surely even Edmonton Oilers fans cannot be without at least a faint feeling of embarrassment as NHL general managers meet in Florida to debate, among other items, ways to possibly prevent the draft lottery’s luckiest team from winning it again.