Category Archives: Canadian Press
Greek foreign minister resigns over Macedonia deal dispute
ATHENS, Greece - Greece’s foreign minister resigned Wednesday following a disagreement with the defence minister over the handling of a deal for Greece to drop its objections to neighbouring Mac...
Oct 17, 2018
Brian Mulroney joins board of directors of New York-based pot company
NEW YORK - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is joining the board of directors of an American cannabis company. Acreage Holdings, one of the largest vertically integrated cannabis companies in the ...
Oct 17, 2018
US housing starts sank 5.3 per cent in September
WASHINGTON - U.S. home construction fell 5.3 per cent in September, a sign that recent hurricanes and rising mortgage rates may be weighing on the market. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that h...
Oct 17, 2018
Mexico Beach residents return home again - some to no home
MEXICO BEACH, Fla. - With stunned faces and tears, residents of hard-hit Mexico Beach returned home for the first time Wednesday about a week after Hurricane Michael hit to find pieces of their lives ...
Oct 17, 2018
Democrats' not-so-secret plan to fight midterm malaise
WASHINGTON - They’re asking pastors to text their congregants about the importance of voting. They’re connecting with thousands of Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria. And they̵...
Oct 17, 2018
Film with Fan Bingbing, Bruce Willis cancelled after tax case
BEIJING - The director of “Air Strike,” featuring Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, says the film’s release has been cancelled in the wake of her disappearance and conviction on tax evas...
Oct 17, 2018
YouTube goes down for more than an hour
YouTube’s video streaming service went out for more than an hour on Tuesday, apparently affecting locations around the world. YouTube acknowledged the outage in a tweet at 9:41 p.m. EDT, noting ...
Oct 17, 2018
Newly published files confirm plan to move Assange to Russia
LONDON - Julian Assange: Hacker. Journalist. Diplomat? Newly released Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate the WikiLeaks founder from his embassy hideaway ...
Oct 17, 2018
Water pollution in Iraq threatens Mandaean religious rites
BAGHDAD - Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in the waters to purify t...
Oct 17, 2018
Wendy's worker who put 'Chubby' on customer receipt fired
GASTONIA, N.C. - A franchise owner of a North Carolina Wendy’s says an employee who called a customer “Chubby” on an order has been fired. News outlets report the Carolina Restaurant...
Oct 17, 2018