Category Archives: Canadian Press
Anticipating Trump's next move, aides prep Iran deal pullout
WASHINGTON - Anticipating an unpredictable president’s next moves, U.S. officials have started actively planning for the likelihood that Donald Trump will announce next month that the U.S. is wi...
Apr 4, 2018
Trump tells Baltic leaders that US is 'very tough on Russia'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump made the case to the leaders of the Baltic nations Tuesday that the U.S. was “very tough on Russia,” pointing to U.S. support for increased defence spen...
Apr 4, 2018
Far-right, even racist views go mainstream in Central Europe
ZAGREB, Croatia - The Croatian president thanks Argentina for taking in notorious pro-Nazi war criminals after World War II. In Bulgaria, a top politician calls the country’s Roma minority ̶...
Apr 4, 2018
Trump signs proclamation directing troops to secure border
WASHINGTON - Asserting the situation had reached “a point of crisis,” President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation directing the deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.-M...
Apr 4, 2018
California proposal would limit when officers can open fire
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Several lawmakers and the family of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by police proposed Tuesday that California become the first state to significantly restric...
Apr 4, 2018
As Oklahoma teachers strike drags on, frustration mounts
OKLAHOMA CITY - When Oklahoma Republicans finally passed a massive tax hike for hundreds of millions of new dollars for public schools and teacher pay raises, they thought they would get a thank you. ...
Apr 4, 2018
US museum stalls Hiroshima exhibit over nuke weapon ban push
A museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico - a once-secret New Mexico city that developed the atomic bomb which helped end World War II - has put an exhibit from Japan on hold because of its theme of abolishi...
Apr 4, 2018
Mexico starts giving caravan migrants transit visas
MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico - The Mexican government began handing out transit or humanitarian visas to people in a caravan of Central American migrants, and said the procession of 1,000 or so migrants that...
Apr 4, 2018
Trump expresses confidence in EPA chief as questions linger
WASHINGTON - White House officials sounded increasingly doubtful Thursday about the future of embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, even as President Donald Trump appeared to t...
Apr 4, 2018
Greater Toronto home sales in March down 39.5 per cent from year ago
TORONTO - The Toronto Real Estate Board says home sales in the Greater Toronto Area in March fell 39.5 per cent compared with a year ago. The board says there were 7,228 home sales through its MLS sys...
Apr 4, 2018