Category Archives: Canadian Press
US trade deficit in August rises 3 per cent to $40.7 billion
WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit rose in August as a flood of imports offset the best showing for exports in 13 months. The politically sensitive deficit with China rose to the highest level in 11 ...
Oct 05, 2016
Survey: US businesses add fewest jobs in 5 months
WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses added 154,000 jobs in September, the slowest pace of hiring since April, a private survey found. Payroll processor ADP says manufacturers cut jobs for the eighth straight ...
Oct 05, 2016
Toronto area housing prices, sales volume soar in September: real estate board
TORONTO - Housing sales in the Toronto area continued to soar last month, with the average price rising 20.4 per cent from September last year to $755,755, the Toronto Real Estate Board reported Wedne...
Oct 05, 2016
Five things to watch as Blue Jays renew their rivalry with Rangers in ALDS
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays advanced to the American League Division Series on Tuesday night with a 5-2, 11-inning victory over the Baltimore Orioles in the AL wild-card game. The Texas Rangers aw...
Oct 05, 2016
Bangladesh court clears Toronto student of allegations in terror attack
The family of a Toronto university student who was detained in Bangladesh expressed relief Wednesday after a court formally cleared him of all allegations related to a deadly terror attack in the coun...
Oct 05, 2016
3 win Nobel chemistry prize for world's tiniest machines
Three scientists won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for advances in a field that has big hopes for very tiny machines - the smallest ever built. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scottish-born Fras...
Oct 05, 2016
World court has no jurisdiction in nuclear disarmament case
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - By the tightest possible margin, the United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday rejected three nuclear disarmament cases filed by the tiny Pacific Ocean nation of the Ma...
Oct 05, 2016
Nearly 2M urged to evacuate as Matthew edges toward US
MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. - Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and nearly 2 million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes, a mass exodus ahead of a maj...
Oct 05, 2016
Debate Takeaways: Kaine challenges Pence to defend Trump
FARMVILLE, Va. - Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine repeatedly challenged Mike Pence during Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, attempting to tie the Indiana governor to some of Donald Trump’s most c...
Oct 05, 2016
Indonesia arrests man for broadcasting porn on billboard
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police said Wednesday that a man they arrested for broadcasting pornography on an electronic billboard in the country’s capital gained access to the system after ...
Oct 05, 2016