Category Archives: Canadian Press
Evictees from SKorea's 1st Olympics recall harsh clearings
BUCHEON, Korea, Republic Of - When South Korea previously held the Olympics in 1988, Kim Paolo and some 150 other poor urban residents spent months that year hiding in huge graves of their own making....
Mar 9, 2018
Former Halifax child prodigy grows up to design self-folding origami robots
HALIFAX - A Halifax-born former child prodigy has proven he can do just about anything with a piece of paper. Erik Demaine, a 37-year-old MIT computer science professor, thinks the technology behind h...
Mar 9, 2018
Nova Scotia judge convicts former Knowledge House CEO, lawyer of fraud
HALIFAX - Two key architects behind a sophisticated multi-million-dollar stock market scheme have been found guilty of manipulating the share price of Knowledge House Inc., nearly 17 years after the H...
Mar 9, 2018
Trump says he'll meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un
WASHINGTON - After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, President Donald Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by the end of May to negotiate an end to Py...
Mar 9, 2018
Trump teases big news; it arrives in the dark, on driveway
WASHINGTON - The first inkling that something big was afoot on North Korea came from President Donald Trump himself: He popped his head into the White House briefing room late Thursday afternoon to te...
Mar 9, 2018
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for February, by province
OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in February. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (revised numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland...
Mar 9, 2018
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for February, by Canadian city
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in February. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ...
Mar 9, 2018
National employment numbers for February from Statistics Canada, at a glance
OTTAWA - A quick look at February employment (revised numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 5.8 per cent (5.9) Employment rate: 61.7 per cent (61.7) Labour force participati...
Mar 9, 2018
Canada adds new jobs overall, but loses full-time work; jobless rate dips to 5.8%
OTTAWA - The economy got a job-creation lift last month that nudged the unemployment rate back down to match its all-time low of 5.8 per cent - but a closer look reveals a rush of part-time work and a...
Mar 9, 2018
Int'l Women's Day: Protests, a strike, a Russian's apology
A 24-hour strike by millions of Spanish women. A crackdown in France on companies violating gender-equal pay policies. In Russia, a candid apology from a powerful legislator to women he sexually haras...
Mar 9, 2018