Новости за 02.04.2024

With the time-sensitive snow crab season set to begin in a few days, fish harvesters are once again talking about tying up their boats due to the price of crab.

In today's Morning Brief, desperate Gazans are paying a private company in Cairo exorbitant "travel co-ordination fees" to help them escape into Egypt through the Rafah border. One international affairs expert says the system is war profiteering "at its worst."

In advance of its first budget, Manitoba's New Democratic Party government has already signalled the provincial spending plan will include a major change to education tax rebates in 2025, plans to make prescription birth control free and new rebates for electric vehicle purchases.

A Calgary man and five companies he controlled are facing sanctions for what the Alberta Securities Commission describes as "very serious misconduct."

A family doctor in North Bay, Ont. says family medicine is in crisis, and several changes are needed to ensure more medical students choose to become family physicians.

Pam Sanderson has been fighting over the last five years for her son, has mental health issues and a drug addiction, to get the care he requires.

Low snow and warm temperatures meant this winter just wasn't the same for many southern Manitoba snowmobilers raring to take their sleds out for a rip — but those in the know eventually learned about a couple snowy havens where the white gold was plentiful and the trails were smooth.

Parts of Manitoba's West Interlake drew large numbers of snowmobilers from southern Manitoba this winter after warm conditions resulted in many trail systems being unable to stay open, if they opened at all.

P.E.I. could find itself under snowfall warnings before the end of the week.

Crews removed the Cape Ray shipwreck from the water Sunday evening, around two months after it suddenly appeared along Newfoundland's southwestern tip.

Organizers of annual spring cleanups around the Thames River are looking for new volunteers to help rid the watershed of plastics and other trash, while being respectful of people living rough along the water's edge.

Daytime highs will be in the double digits for some areas in the province as warm air leads to temperatures significantly higher than normal.

Hundreds of people from Latin America have been moving to northern Ontario in the past few years. Some are coming for work, many are coming for school and most hope to make the region their new home. 

While Mi'kmaw treaty rights have long been asserted in the fisheries, most prominently in the Nova Scotia lobster industry and increasingly with lucrative baby eels, cannabis is emerging as a contentious new legal and social battleground.

A program that once helped New Brunswick Grade 2 students learn to read has shut down suddenly and without explanation after apparent financial problems.

A Calgary utility expert hired to analyze NB Power's application for a pair of 9.25 per cent rate increases over the next two years says the increase could be cut in half.

Fans of river otters are excited to see evidence the species' numbers are growing locally, at least in one corner of Prince Edward Island. The water-loving mammals are making a comeback — after disappearing from the Island in the early 1900s.

From the discovery of helium to Einstein, solar eclipses are more than a jaw-dropping spectacle.

In the face of war, famine and homelessness, desperate Gazans are paying a private company in Cairo exorbitant “travel co-ordination fees” to help them escape into Egypt through the Rafah border. One international affairs expert says the system is war profiteering “at its worst.”

Boxer Claire Hafner’s brain may help future women athletes, patients with neurodegenerative conditions, survivors of intimate partner violence and soldiers with head trauma. She's one of 17 Canadian athletes participating in a landmark study of the effects of head trauma on 900 living athletes, mostly from combat sports.

As part of its Renters' Bill of Rights, the federal government introduced a proposal that would make timely rental payments count toward a person's credit score. The aim is to level the playing field for young renters, but there could be pitfalls, experts say.

A cross-Canada shortage of teachers is hitting a crisis level, experts warn, and while some COVID-era stopgap measures are being reintroduced, they say more sustainable solutions are needed.

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The Jets went on the game's first power play midway through third period with the score tied 3-3. Perfetti fired a low shot past Kings goalie Cam Talbot two seconds after the man advantage expired.