Category Archives: Canadian Press

Trudeau says protectionist views in U.S., Europe unlikely to creep into Canada
HANGZHOU, China - Justin Trudeau spent days urging world leaders to fight back against rising anti-trade sentiments, but he says there’s little risk that protectionist forces seen in the United ...
Sep 05, 2016
WHO confirms 3rd case of polio in Nigeria, Rotary Club says
LAGOS, Nigeria - The World Health Organization has confirmed a third case of polio in an area of Nigeria newly liberated from Boko Haram Islamic extremists, the Rotary Club said Monday, amid fears the...
Sep 05, 2016
B.C. Liberals must pull off balancing act on real estate: observers
VANCOUVER - Public outcry over British Columbia’s sizzling real estate market pushed the province’s Liberal government to introduce a foreign-buyers’ tax last month, but uncertainty ...
Sep 05, 2016
Despite more police, West Indian Day events marred by deaths
NEW YORK - Revelers in costumes danced as the sounds of steel drums filled the air Monday at the city’s annual West Indian Day Parade, but despite an expanded police presence violence again marr...
Sep 05, 2016
Duterte tells Obama not to question him about killings
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned President Barack Obama on Monday not to question him about extrajudicial killings, or “son of a bitch I will swear at you”...
Sep 05, 2016
Clinton blasts Russia, Trump softens immigration stance
CLEVELAND - Setting the stage on Labor Day for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign, Donald Trump softened his stance on immigration while Hillary Clinton blasted Russia for its suspe...
Sep 05, 2016

Death toll from Tel Aviv construction collapse rises to 4
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says the death toll from a construction site collapse in Tel Aviv has risen to four. Rescue teams led by the military’s Home Front Command have been searching fo...
Sep 05, 2016
Wave of IS-claimed bombings in Syria kill at least 48
BEIRUT - Near-simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic State group struck in and around strongholds of the Syrian government and Kurdish troops Monday, killing at least 48 people in a wave of atta...
Sep 05, 2016

Pledging US help, Obama says Laos living in 'shadow of war'
VIENTIANE, Laos - Acknowledging the dark aftershocks of the Vietnam War, President Barack Obama paid tribute Wednesday to survivors maimed by some 80 million unexploded bombs America dropped on Laos d...
Sep 05, 2016
May reaffirms UK's post-Brexit support for Canada-EU trade deal: Freeland
HANGZHOU, China - International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says British Prime Minister Theresa May has reaffirmed her government’s post-Brexit support for Canada’s free trade deal wi...
Sep 05, 2016