Category Archives: Canadian Press
Here's a list September inflation rates for Canadian provinces, territories
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland a...
Oct 19, 2018
Annual pace of inflation slows to 2.2 per cent in September: Statistics Canada
OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation slowed more than expected in September as increases in the price of gasoline continued to ease. Statistics Canada said Friday the consumer price index in Septembe...
Oct 19, 2018
Study of U.S. hospital figures links pot use with increasing risk of stroke
MONTREAL - New research based on U.S. hospital statistics suggests that recreational cannabis users are increasingly at risk of stroke. In findings presented Friday at the World Stroke Congress in Mon...
Oct 19, 2018
Mayor came home to try to improve poor California town
HURON, Calif. - Beyond the boarded-up buildings and patchwork fences that others view as eyesores, Huron Mayor Rey Leon sees potential in this tiny central California farm town that has been mired in ...
Oct 19, 2018
Caravan migrants break Guatemala border fence, rush Mexico
TECUN UMAN, Guatemala - Migrants travelling in a mass caravan burst through a Guatemalan border fence and streamed by the thousands toward Mexican territory on Friday, defying Mexican authorities̵...
Oct 19, 2018
Impoverished farm town is left behind in California
HURON, Calif. - A rooster signals the start of the day as workers wearing sombreros and ball caps emerge from the shadows and shuffle past boarded-up businesses in this tiny farm town. They converge o...
Oct 19, 2018
Missing Florida woman's body recovered amid rubble
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - A family can begin to grieve after officials confirmed Friday the death of a 79-year-old Florida woman who had been missing since Hurricane Michael left her Mexico Beach home in ru...
Oct 19, 2018
Afghans set to vote despite Taliban threats, corruption
KABUL - Most Afghans will return to the polls for parliamentary elections on Saturday, hoping to bring change to a corrupt government that has lost nearly half the country to the Taliban. Voters in Ka...
Oct 19, 2018
Sessions says reforms of Chicago police could boost crime
CHICAGO - Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned Friday that reforms planned for the Chicago police force could cause a surge in violent crime and pointed to the recent murder conviction of a police of...
Oct 19, 2018
Man who killed 3 in Colorado Walmart gets life in prison
BRIGHTON, Colo. - The man who gunned down three people in a suburban Denver Walmart last year was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. But more than 11 months after the crime, his motive...
Oct 19, 2018