Category Archives: Canadian Press
Trump economic aide Cohn departs after trade disagreement
WASHINGTON - Top economic adviser Gary Cohn is leaving the White House after breaking with President Donald Trump on trade policy, the latest in a string of high-level departures from the West Wing. C...
Mar 6, 2018
Airbus wants to make C Series profitable by lowering supplier prices
TOULOUSE, France - Airbus intends to pressure suppliers for Bombardier’s C Series jets to lower their prices in an effort to make its new partnership with the Quebec aircraft manufacturer profit...
Mar 6, 2018
UN probe: Russia behind deadly airstrike on Syrian market
GENEVA - U.N. war crimes investigators said Tuesday that a Russian plane was apparently behind an airstrike in November on a Syrian market that killed 84 people, an attack which could amount to a war ...
Mar 6, 2018
Greater Montreal home sales up 5% from February 2017, as active listing drop
MONTREAL - The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board says home sales in the region grew five per cent year-over-year in February, as the number of active listings dropped 17 per cent. A total of 4,081 re...
Mar 6, 2018
US greets talk of NK nuke concessions with hope, skepticism
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump greeted North Korea’s reported willingness to negotiate away its atomic weapons with both hope and skepticism Tuesday, insisting a potential diplomatic breakt...
Mar 6, 2018
Oland has pre-trial conference ahead of second murder trial in death of father
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The case against Dennis Oland has been put over until next week for more pre-trial conferences ahead of his retrial for the murder of his father. Oland was charged with second-degre...
Mar 6, 2018
Bugs in the grocery aisle; Loblaw adds cricket powder to its PC line
Canada’s largest grocer believes Canadians are ready to cook with crickets and is bringing the alternative protein ingredient to grocery shelves under its President’s Choice label. A numbe...
Mar 6, 2018
Brother objects as man who killed grandparents, mother in 2015 gains more freedom
HALIFAX - A mentally ill Nova Scotia man who killed his mother and two grandparents in 2015 has been granted unescorted day passes from a secure hospital, despite family pleas that he wasn’t rea...
Mar 6, 2018
Toronto-area home prices, sales volume in February down from 2017 record highs
TORONTO - The number of Toronto-area homes sold last month fell nearly 35 per cent and the average selling price dropped more than 12 per cent from historically high levels set last year, the Toronto ...
Mar 6, 2018
Sri Lanka blocks social media as anti-Muslim rioting flares
MULLEGAMA, Sri Lanka - Religious violence flared anew in the hills of central Sri Lanka on Wednesday despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs sweeping through towns and villages, burning Musli...
Mar 6, 2018