Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Canada’s housing market saw another so-called payback sales drop in February, when the national average home price slumped by five per cent from a year ago, after a surge in sales late...

MOSCOW - Most, but not all, of Russia’s top sports stars are backing Vladimir Putin in this weekend’s presidential election. Ahead of Sunday’s vote, a host of Olympic gold medallists...

WASHINGTON - How did George Nader - Lebanese-American businessman, globe-trotting “fixer,” convicted child molester - get caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation?...

BOISE, Idaho - Glenn Cox went before the parole board with a plan and a bandage on his forehead. He had already been accepted into a live-in substance abuse treatment centre. For the first time in a l...

CHICAGO - It was 1934. Mobsters armed with fully automatic “Tommy guns” had left a trail of bloodstained sidewalks and pockmarked walls across the country, and the new president had narrow...

BEIRUT - Thousands of civilians streamed out of a town in Syria’s besieged, opposition-held enclave of eastern Ghouta on Thursday, crossing on foot and in pick-up trucks and tractors to governme...

Many of them had already endured their share of heartache. Some had been trying for years to get pregnant, suffering through multiple miscarriages. Others had undergone cancer treatments that destroye...

SAN FRANCISCO - The smoke was thick and business brisk at the Barbary Coast Dispensary’s marijuana smoking lounge, a darkened room that resembles a steakhouse or upscale sports tavern with its r...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The sister of the man sentenced to die for killing nine people at a South Carolina church in 2015 has been arrested at her school and charged with bringing pepper spray, a knife and m...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia - A Cambodian court held a one-day trial Thursday of a British man who was among a group of foreigners arrested for allegedly posting photos on social media of sexually suggestive ...