Category Archives: Canadian Press
Here's a list of November inflation rates for selected Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.1 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctu...
Dec 21, 2017
Pulp giant stirs new conflicts with Indonesian villagers
AIR MENDUYUNG, Indonesia - Less than five years after it pledged to end dozens of disputes over land and gain local consent for new plantations in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest paper com...
Dec 21, 2017
Venezuelan prosecutors look to settle scores from exile
BOGOTA - In a cramped office in Colombia’s capital, where a single window looks onto a narrow air shaft, Pedro Lupera searches through scanned copies of contracts, invoices and bank wire instruc...
Dec 21, 2017
Pawlenty eyes return to national stage but in a new GOP era
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Long ago, in a seemingly distant political universe, Tim Pawlenty was a fresh-faced Republican star with blue-collar appeal and presidential prospects. Now, the former Minnesota gove...
Dec 21, 2017
Civil war is pushing South Sudan closer to starvation
Writhing in agony on the dirt floor of his hut, Bob Wol traced the recent gunshot wounds on his thigh and back with his fingers. “I was trying to get food and my government tried to kill me,R...
Dec 21, 2017
Peru's president evades impeachment over Odebrecht scandal
LIMA, Peru - President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski survived an impeachment vote in congress late Thursday, thwarting an attempt by opposition lawmakers to oust him over ties to the Brazilian construction gi...
Dec 21, 2017
Once US murder capital, NYC close to record low in homicides
NEW YORK - Even after two terror attacks and a driver’s deadly rampage through Times Square, New York City is on track to smash its modern-era low for homicides in a year. Through Dec. 17, the c...
Dec 21, 2017
High-speed internet to bring big change in remote Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Jeff Kowunna used his drone to record this year’s celebration of another successful bowhead whaling harvest for one of the oldest Alaska Native settlements. The video from th...
Dec 21, 2017
The cold returns for Winter Games in mountainous Pyeongchang
PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - The cold is back for the Winter Games. After two straight balmy Olympics where some might have wondered if it was even winter, let alone the world’s pre-eminent...
Dec 21, 2017
Fuelled by gasoline prices, annual inflation accelerates to 2.1 per cent
OTTAWA - The country’s annual inflation rate accelerated to 2.1 per cent last month to reach its highest mark in nearly a year and signal that the stronger economy has started pushing up consume...
Dec 21, 2017