Category Archives: Canadian Press
UK govt says 'no-deal' Brexit would mean red tape, expense
LONDON - Businesses could face red tape at the border, customers could see higher credit card fees, patients could endure delays to medical treatment and there could even be a sperm shortage if Britai...
Aug 23, 2018
AP Explains: A look at where the UK is in terms of Brexit
LONDON - The British government has published a series of documents laying out its plans for what it will do in the event it fails to secure a deal on its future relationship with the European Union f...
Aug 23, 2018
Australian prime minister says he could quit Parliament soon
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia’s beleaguered prime minister was resisting pressure to quit as opponents from within his party struggled on Thursday to show that he had lost the government’...
Aug 23, 2018
As electricity fails, desperate Venezuelans buy spoiled meat
MARACAIBO, Venezuela - In a city once called the Saudi Arabia of Venezuela for its vast oil wealth, residents of Maracaibo now line up to buy spoiled meat as refrigerators fail amid nine months of rol...
Aug 23, 2018
North Korea speeds construction spree ahead of anniversary
SAMJIYON, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Thousands of North Korean “soldier-builders” in olive green uniforms and bright red hardhats are doing everything from digging ditc...
Aug 23, 2018
Women as priests? Some say it's time but admit it's unlikely
NEW YORK - Advocates of ordaining women as Roman Catholic priests cite the church’s unfolding sex abuse scandals as powerful arguments for their cause, while acknowledging the high unlikelihood ...
Aug 23, 2018
Complaint: US officials coerced migrants to sign documents
PHOENIX - The Honduran mother said she felt repeatedly pressured to sign documents she wasn’t given time to read, so she lashed out at an immigration officer, telling him it shouldn’t be t...
Aug 23, 2018
US, China raise tariffs in new round of trade dispute
BEIJING - The United States and China went ahead with tariff hikes on billions of dollars of each other’s automobiles, factory machinery and other goods Thursday in an escalation of a battle ove...
Aug 23, 2018
Gun control activists marching 50 miles to Smith & Wesson HQ
WORCESTER, Mass. - Gun control advocates, including one of the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and the parents of one of the victims, are marching 50 miles (80 kilometres) across M...
Aug 23, 2018
Autopsy finds Iowa student died from 'sharp force injuries'
BROOKLYN, Iowa - The Iowa college student who was allegedly abducted by a stranger while running last month in a small town was stabbed to death, investigators announced Thursday. Preliminary autopsy ...
Aug 23, 2018