Category Archives: Canadian Press
US new-home sales drop 11.4% in April, most in 2 years
WASHINGTON - U.S. sales of new homes last month registered the biggest drop in more than two years. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that new-home sales skidded 11.4 per cent in April to a seasona...
May 23, 2017
Polish couple among those killed in Manchester blast
LONDON - The names of the 22 victims killed by a suicide bomber at a Manchester concert on Monday night have not been officially released, but here what’s known about them so far: ___ A Polish c...
May 23, 2017
Maria Sharapova to continue comeback from doping ban at Rogers Cup
TORONTO - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova will continue her comeback from a 15-month doping ban at this summer’s Rogers Cup in Toronto. The tournament says she has been awarded a main draw w...
May 23, 2017
Newfoundland and Labrador join 10-digit club ahead of new telephone area code
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - One of Canada’s last bastions of local seven-digit dialing will soon be no more. People in Newfoundland and Labrador were told Tuesday that local 10-digit dialing - incl...
May 23, 2017
Extra work and time leads to jump in Canada Summer Jobs funding requests
OTTAWA - Almost 42,000 businesses have applied to hire a student through the Canada Summer Jobs program, surpassing the number of applications last year, the federal government says. The number of app...
May 23, 2017
Lobster fraud: Three facing charges in complex, $3-million international case
BARRINGTON, N.S. - More than $3 million worth of lobster is at the centre of a complex, international case involving fraud and theft allegations against three men from southwestern Nova Scotia, RCMP s...
May 23, 2017
Putin says whistleblowing on doping echoes Stalin's purges
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that plans to encourage athletes to give evidence about doping remind him of denunciations during Josef Stalin’s purges. While discussing a...
May 23, 2017
Injured Eugenie Bouchard withdraws from Nuremberg Cup
NUREMBERG, Germany - Eugenie Bouchard has withdrawn from the Nuremberg Cup tennis tournament with a right ankle injury. The 2014 champion informed tournament director Sandra Reichel of her decision la...
May 23, 2017
Top Mountie refuses to admit officers weren't prepared for Moncton shooting
MONCTON, N.B. - A senior Mountie has refused to admit that front line officers who responded to a shooting rampage in Moncton, N.B., didn’t have the proper training or equipment to handle the he...
May 23, 2017
The Latest: US lawmaker says UK bomb showed 'sophistication'
LONDON - The Latest on the bombing at a pop concert in Manchester that left 22 people dead (all times local): 11:55 p.m. A U.S. congressman says the bomb used in the deadly Manchester Arena attack in ...
May 23, 2017