Category Archives: Canadian Press
Foreign buyers 1.3 per cent of Metro Vancouver real estate sales since tax
VANCOUVER - The rate of foreign investment in Metro Vancouver housing has fallen to 1.3 per cent since the introduction of a new tax targeting international buyers, according to new data from the Brit...
Oct 28, 2016
Refugees, powerful women and food: how federal politics touched us this week
OTTAWA - Official Ottawa was on the edge of its seat all week, anxious to see how the CETA soap opera would end. Would the Walloons sabotage the free trade agreement between Canada and Europe that had...
Oct 28, 2016
Activists split as Clinton makes push for black millennials
PHILADELPHIA - Six months into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, she met with a group of Black Lives Matter activists in Washington to make her case and seek their support. DeRay Mckesson...
Oct 28, 2016
Education gap divides white voters
DODGE CITY, Kan. - At 18, Mike Smith chose trucking over college. Hauling cattle feed was lucrative for a teenager, and it seemed he could have a pretty good life without a degree. Now, 40 years later...
Oct 28, 2016
With newfound vigour, Obama works to rebuild Democratic Party
WASHINGTON - Gone is the old President Barack Obama, who approached campaigning for other Democrats as a chore. The new Obama is throwing himself into rebuilding his party in his final months in the W...
Oct 28, 2016
Another indigenous girl commits suicide on northern Saskatchewan reserve
LOON LAKE, Sask. - Another indigenous girl has committed suicide in northern Saskatchewan - the fifth this month. Barry Chalifoux, a grief counsellor for a school on the Makwa Sahgaiehcan reserve, sai...
Oct 28, 2016
N.S. picks annual Christmas tree to thank Boston for aid after Halifax Explosion
HALIFAX - It is by tradition the first Christmas tree to be lit every year on the Boston Common - a gift from Nova Scotia for the American city’s help 99 years ago when the Halifax Explosion kil...
Oct 28, 2016
Sotheby sale features Edvard Munch work that may fetch $50M
NEW YORK - A work by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (AYD’-vart moongk) will highlight Sotheby’s fall auction of impressionist and modern art. The auction house expects the painting R...
Oct 28, 2016
Some quotes from the state memorial for former premier Jim Prentice
CALGARY - About 1,500 politicians, business colleagues, friends and members of the public gathered Friday at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary to remember former Alberta premier Jim Prentice, who died...
Oct 28, 2016
Confusion over electoral reform may skew P.E.I. plebiscite: professor
CHARLOTTETOWN - The P.E.I. government has intentionally confused voters ahead of a provincewide plebiscite on electoral reform in a bid to maintain the status quo, a prominent political observer said ...
Oct 28, 2016