Category Archives: Canadian Press
Greater Toronto Area home sales plummet last month after foreign buyer tax
TORONTO - Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area plunged 20.3 per cent last month compared with a year ago, according to the latest data from the country’s largest real estate board, a sign that...
Jun 05, 2017
Oh the Places You'll Go! Dr. Seuss museum opens its doors
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - From the squiggly, pink handrails outside the entrance to the front hall decorated with scenes from “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street” - a real street jus...
Jun 05, 2017
Wasted green power tests China's energy leadership
BEIJING - Its efforts to cut pollution have made China the world leader in renewable energy development, yet that green power has been wasted as the country struggles to integrate wind and solar farms...
Jun 05, 2017
Truck and bus collide in northern India, killing 22
LUCKNOW, India - A bus slammed head-on into a truck in northern India early Monday, killing 22 people and injuring more than a dozen, police said. The bus was carrying 37 passengers when it collided w...
Jun 05, 2017
Germany, Turkey fail to break deadlock over air base visit
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey on Monday refused to budge on its refusal to let German lawmakers visit troops stationed at a Turkish air base, a stance that left NATO ally Germany on the verge of a likely de...
Jun 05, 2017
Polish taxi drivers protest growth of unlicensed drivers
WARSAW, Poland - Hundreds of taxi drivers in Poland’s four largest cities drove at a crawl Monday blocking rush-hour traffic in a protest to draw the government’s attention to the rising n...
Jun 05, 2017
Portland police arrest 14 during rival protests, clashes
PORTLAND, Ore. - Police arrested 14 people as thousands of demonstrators and counter-protesters converged in downtown Portland more than a week after two men were fatally stabbed trying to stop a man ...
Jun 05, 2017
Mexico ruling party has preliminary lead in key state vote
MEXICO CITY - The ruling party’s candidate held a slight advantage on in preliminary vote counts on Monday in the race for governor of Mexico’s most populous state, an election seen as a k...
Jun 05, 2017
Mexican ex-governor arrested in Panama; extradition sought
PANAMA CITY - A fugitive Mexican ex-governor wanted for alleged corruption in connection with the sale of state properties worth hundreds of millions of dollars was arrested in Panama and faces possib...
Jun 05, 2017
Debt ceiling issue tops summer budget agenda for Congress
WASHINGTON - Even members of his own party were quick to declare President Donald Trump’s budget plan dead on arrival in Congress last month. And in fact, lawmakers are facing a burst of overdue...
Jun 05, 2017