Новости за 02.04.2016

The rate has more than doubled for women and tripled for men. The chances of meeting a WHO goal to stop the trend are 'virtually zero'

It’s prudent to sell Saudi Arabia the arms it needs to fend off ISIL

Successful applicants can buy one of the cars for either $750 or $1,000, plus the cost of shipping, which is estimated at around $4,000

David Del Mastro stands accused of concocting a scheme in his cousin Dean Del Mastro's reelection campaign in Peterborough in the brief, hectic election of 2008

Ali Hassan was playing with his younger siblings outside of his house when he heard the loud sound of a gate slamming against a fence. Seconds later, Marco the police dog was charging straight for the kids, having escaped from the backyard of his Calgary police canine officer. “I’ve never seen a dog this big […]

ANAHEIM, Calif. — In the second week of their National Hockey League season, the Vancouver Canucks beat the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings on consecutive nights. In the second-to-last week of the season, they made another California sweep, beating the Ducks 3-2 Friday, one night after dumping the San Jose Sharks 4-2.

It was the first hot day of spring, April 26, 1981. Two girls, giggling, talking about boys, shared a purloined cigarette on a wooded trail near their school in the University of B.C. endowment lands. Behind them a twig snapped. Then, the voice. “Put your hands on your head, turn around, and don’t look back.”

A Wetaskiwin man owned up Friday to committing a spree of bank robberies — some while he was dressed up as a woman — across central and northern Alberta. Christopher Allan Zubko, 53, pleaded guilty in Edmonton’s Court of Queen’s Bench to 12 counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery with a handgun. According to […]

We walked along the dike, the dog and I, and beside the path, off by itself, was a bench. It faced southeast, and on that sunny day it offered a panoramic view of the kind the city never affords. There were farm fields behind and Boundary Bay in front, and with no trees or buildings to obstruct the eye, it felt as if we stood at the exact centre of the valley.

B.C.'s health ministry has rehired another of the health researchers it fired as part of a botched 2012 investigation.

A Vancouver judge has authorized the first physician-assisted death in B.C. for a woman suffering from advanced multiple sclerosis.

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson responds to issues of harassment in the ranks, resources for terrorism and ongoing gang violence in Surrey.

The acceptance of the streets and homeless shelters as a dumping ground for people with serious mental health issues is a collective disgrace.

The B.C. RCMP E Division major crime section’s special projects unit and the family of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry will hold a news conference for that purpose on Friday morning.

A man who perpetrated a massive financial fraud against hundreds of elderly clients has lost his appeal of findings made against him by the B.C. Securities Commission.

When people speak of Chinese investment in B.C., much of the conversation centres on Metro Vancouver’s daunting housing prices. Less visible is the corporate investment — both within the Lower Mainland and throughout the province — that has the potential to kickstart several sectors of the economy.

A Point Grey home on Belmont Ave. owned by Peter Brown, the founder of investment dealer Canaccord Genuity Group, and his wife Joanne, is under contract to be sold for $31.1 million.