Category Archives: Canadian Press
Asylum seekers will wait up to two years for refugee claims to be processed: IRB
OTTAWA - The arm’s-length agency that processes refugee claims says asylum seekers who cross into Canada today will have to wait almost two years before learning whether they can stay. The Immig...
Nov 02, 2018
Starbucks app outage adds to long lines
NEW YORK - Starbucks customers had to wait in long lines Friday to get their caffeine fix after an outage of its app made mobile orders impossible. The coffee chain says it is experiencing a “te...
Nov 02, 2018
A proposed 65-storey skyscraper prompts Quebec City to grapple with its identity
MONTREAL - Quebec City’s centuries-old architecture has earned it a reputation as one of Canada’s most beautiful cities, but opponents of a plan to build the province’s tallest skysc...
Nov 02, 2018
Tori Stafford rally sidetracked by complaints on carbon tax, budget deficits
OTTAWA - A rally on Parliament Hill meant to protest the transfer of a child-killer from a prison to an Indigenous healing lodge veered quickly into complaints about the national carbon tax, veterans&...
Nov 02, 2018
Ottawa funding program to help reduce homelessness in 38 communities
EDMONTON - The federal government is putting more money into a program first tested in eight communities to help reduce homelessness. Edmonton Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault on Friday announced $885,00...
Nov 02, 2018
Latinas are on the march in Florida ahead of Election Day
ORLANDO, Fla. - Some high-powered Latinas are on the march in Florida, campaigning in two largely Latino neighbourhoods the weekend for Election Day. Actresses America Ferrera, Eva Longoria, Gina Rodr...
Nov 02, 2018
US restores Iran sanctions lifted under Obama nuclear deal
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday announced the reimposition of all U.S. sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, ramping up economic pressure on the Islamic R...
Nov 02, 2018
Kanye West tweets he's dropping politics, writes big check
CHICAGO - Hip-hop megastar Kanye West told his Twitter followers that he was “distancing” himself from politics even as he sent a big check to boost a Democratic mayoral hopeful in his hom...
Nov 02, 2018
Prince Charles, Camilla land in Ghana on second Africa stop
ACCRA, Ghana - Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived in Ghana for the second stop of their West African tour. The royals landed Friday afternoon in Accra where the...
Nov 02, 2018
Migrants in southern Mexico set sights on town near Gulf
MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico - The main caravan of Central American migrants spent a rain-drenched night outside before continuing their slow walk through southern Mexico, on a path that is taking them towar...
Nov 02, 2018