Category Archives: Canadian Press
Housing is unaffordable and in need of a $13-billion federal fix: cities
OTTAWA - Canada’s cities say housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable at every income level, and the federal government’s plans for a national housing strategy need to include billion...
Oct 21, 2016
QuickList: September inflation rate for selected Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 1.3 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluct...
Oct 21, 2016
QuickList: September inflation rates for Canadian provinces, territories
OTTAWA - Canada’s national inflation rate was 1.3 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces and territories (previous month in brackets): - Newfo...
Oct 21, 2016
German group: Migrants die amid Libya 'coast guard' attack
BERLIN - At least four people died off the coast of Libya and more were missing after a rubber boat carrying around 150 migrants was attacked Friday by a group aboard a speedboat labeled as belonging ...
Oct 21, 2016
Attack in Afghanistan killed Illinois soldier, Oklahoma man
FAIRVIEW, Ill. - A decorated U.S. soldier from Illinois and an Army civilian employee from Oklahoma who both had been deployed multiple times to support military operations in Afghanistan were killed ...
Oct 21, 2016
Court: Iraqi cleric Mullah Krekar can be extradited to Italy
COPENHAGEN - An Iraqi-born cleric can be extradited to Italy, which suspects him of enticing recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria, a Norwegian court said Friday. Italy says Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad - know...
Oct 21, 2016
South Africa's move on ICC raises concerns of African exodus
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa on Friday reversed its early support for the International Criminal Court and said it will withdraw from it, raising concerns of a possible African exodus that would underm...
Oct 21, 2016
Cyprus police: Boat with 83 migrants aboard towed to harbour
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Cypriot authorities have transferred 83 Syrians who were towed into the east Mediterranean island aboard a boat with no captain to a reception centre, a police spokesman said Friday....
Oct 21, 2016
Ontario to import 2 terawatt hours of Quebec electricity annually under new deal
TORONTO - Ontario will import enough electricity from Quebec to power a city of more than 200,000 people under a seven-year agreement signed Friday, but the provinces won’t say how much Ontario ...
Oct 21, 2016
From Utah, McMullin calls for 'new conservative movement'
SALT LAKE CITY - Two months after he jumped into the presidential race as a political unknown, independent candidate Evan McMullin is surging in Utah polls and drawing large crowds of Republican-leani...
Oct 21, 2016