Category Archives: Canadian Press
Vancouver home prices may have seen 'final hurrah,' Royal LePage says
TORONTO - Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper says house prices in Greater Vancouver grew 30.6 per cent year-over-year in the third quarter of the year, marking what may have been the real estate market’...
Oct 13, 2016
Richard Nixon museum makeover puts visitors in his shoes
YORBA LINDA, Calif. - Gone are the long rows of wood-framed display cases sprinkled with campaign paraphernalia and lengthy narratives about President Richard Nixon. Instead, the renovated Richard Nix...
Oct 13, 2016
Samsung Note 7 recall to cost at least $5.3 billion
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Samsung Electronics said Friday that the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 would cost the company about $3 billion during the current and next quarters, bringing the tot...
Oct 13, 2016

Former Olympic heptathlon champ Jessica Ennis-Hill retires
SHEFFIELD, England - Former Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill announced her retirement from track and field on Thursday, ending the career of one of Britain’s most successful sports...
Oct 13, 2016
German court rejects complaint to suspend Canada-EU trade deal
BERLIN - Germany’s highest court has rejected calls from opponents of a Canada-European Union trade deal for an injunction that had the potential to spell an end to the pact. The Federal constit...
Oct 13, 2016

Visiting French PM endorses Clinton in U.S. vote, says world 'rejected' Trump
OTTAWA - France’s visiting prime minister plunged head-first Thursday into next month’s U.S. presidential election, saying he supports Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, while host Justin ...
Oct 13, 2016
German court rejects complaint to suspend Canada-EU trade deal
BERLIN - Germany’s highest court has rejected calls from opponents of a Canada-European Union trade deal for an injunction that had the potential to spell an end to the pact. The Federal constit...
Oct 13, 2016
Eight stories in the news today, Oct. 13
Eight stories in the news for Thursday, Oct. 13 --- NORTEL SETTLES FIGHT TO DIVVY UP $7.3 BILLION FROM LIQUIDATION A settlement has been reached to end years of court battles over how to divvy up US$7...
Oct 13, 2016
Federal report cites bias by San Francisco police
San Francisco police use force against blacks more often than other racial groups and pull over African American drivers at a disproportionately high rate, according to a U.S. Department of Justice a ...
Oct 13, 2016
Nobel laureate Dario Fo, who mocked politics, religion, dies
ROME - Italian playwright Dario Fo, whose energetic mocking of Italian political life, social mores and religion won him praise, scorn and the Nobel Prize for Literature, died Thursday. He was 90. Fo ...
Oct 13, 2016