Новости за 25.03.2016

Valeant Pharmaceuticals, accused by U.S. politicians of price-gouging, is facing criticism from assisted-dying advocates across North America for doubling the price of a drug commonly used to hasten death soon after California legalized doctor-assisted suicide.

Across North America, city governments and neighbourhood activists are worried that the exploding popularly of Airbnb is hurting neighbourhoods and putting a strain on rental housing stock, as landlords choose the lucrative option of short-term rentals over long-term tenants.

It is not as straightforward as you’d think to nail down the scope and nature of income inequality in Canada. Twenty-seven top academics try, with varying success, in a book recently published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy. They found Canadians as split on this issue as on most complex controversies — they call the two camps Cassandras and deniers — and they cite evidence to back both points of view.

Wine expert Anthony Gismondi discusses wines to match your Easter meal.

No fun city? Not any longer. It seems that happy hour has put a big ol’ smiley face on the town once known for being, oh, let’s be politely Canadian and call it “reserved.” Others, however, might call it boring, unfriendly and really, really expensive. You wouldn’t think Vancouver was so dull if you were […]

The constant pressure on the availability and cost of housing is created by continuing large-scale immigration, Martin Collacott writes.

The distraught parents of a missing toddler in rural Manitoba made a tearful plea Thursday for any information that might lead to a reunion with their son.

Police raided Brussels neighbourhoods again Friday in an operation the mayor said was linked to both the airport and subway bombings and to the arrest in the Paris suburbs of a man who may have been plotting a new attack in France.

If you think the weather is crazy today, you should have been in the American midwest between March 23 and 26, 1913.

U.S. forces killed a senior Islamic State leader, among several key members of the militant group eliminated this week, Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.

The end, mercifully, came at 6:52 of the first period when Bo Horvat did the unthinkable. He scored.

Provincial ministries of agriculture, environment and health have launched a joint task force to study the afflictions of those unhappy folks who get their drinking water from the increasingly contaminated Hullcar aquifer in the Okanagan.

Being simultaneously high on pot, cocaine, heroin, MDMA and LSD is never a good combination, but the Ford Motor Company wants you to know that it’s particularly bad if you plan to get behind the wheel.

VICTORIA — B.C. is poised to raise the minimum wage this fall, which could keep the province from becoming the lowest-paying region in the country.

The Sisters of St. Ann have in the past few years given away more than $15 million.

The federal budget earlier this week blew kisses to Lower Mainland mayors, disappointed B.C. business groups and provided a political Viagra pill to the Conservatives. Everyone knows the Canadian economy is sluggish, oil prices are down and interest rates are low. So, deficit spending may well be in order. Certainly, the mayors are welcoming all the new affordable housing and infrastructure spending.

Electric vehicle registrations are surging in B.C., fuelled by hefty provincial incentives, improved technology and desirable packaging. But the overall number of hybrid and fully-electric cars on the road remains low, relative to their gas and diesel-powered counterparts, and that could come down to lingering fear over drained batteries.

Myles Gray, 33, was the owner of a successful business in Sechelt and had no criminal record or history of mental illness. He died in a backyard on a hot day last August, surrounded by Vancouver police officers following an altercation with authorities.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Garry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian pioneered a pretend brand of self-focused docudrama with "The Larry Sanders Show," has died.

Conversations That Matter features Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde. The Chief discusses the benefits Canada will reap when the gap in education, opportunity and living standards of indigenous peoples is closed. According to the UN Human Development Index, Canada ranks sixth in the world while the First Nations ranks 63rd. Bellegarde points out […]

The federal government is trying to keep a convicted sex offender and human trafficker in a B.C. jail pending his deportation to Iraq. On Tuesday, an Immigration and Refugee Board member ruled that Maitham Aziz Alzehrani could be released from custody while he fights his immigration case. But the Minister of Public Safety is so […]

Members of the University of British Columbia Faculty Association are taking a formal vote of non-confidence in the school’s board of governors. UBC’s board has been criticized by the faculty after the abrupt departure of former president Arvind Gupta last August. Since then, the board chairman has resigned in an academic freedom scandal, the finance committee […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his affection for B.C. with some liberal allowances for Canada's most western province in the federal budget this week. However, he may have missed the mark when it comes to understanding the debt-conscious west coasters and their fanaticism for affordable housing.

TORONTO - Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted Thursday on all charges of sexual assault and choking following a trial that sparked an emotional nationwide debate on how the justice system treats abuse complainants as well as raucous courthouse protests over the verdict.

REGINA - Health officials in Saskatchewan say they are investigating what's believed to be Canada's first possible case of the Zika virus being spread through sex.