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Greater Vancouver home sales down nearly 5% in March as prices rise: board
VANCOUVER - Greater Vancouver's real estate board says the number of homes that changed hands in March fell from the previous year, as total sales were nearly one-third lower than the 10-year average....
Apr 03, 2024
Canadian referee Drew Fischer appointed to work Paris Olympic football tournament
Canadian Drew Fischer is one of 21 FIFA referees appointed to work the football tournament at this summer's Paris Olympics. The 43-year-old from Calgary will be joined by Canadians Lyes Arfa and Miche...
Apr 03, 2024
Former Saskatchewan Roughriders player, executive Jim Hopson dies at age 73
REGINA - Jim Hopson, the former Saskatchewan Roughriders player who later served as president of the CFL club, has died. He was 73. The Roughriders confirmed Hopson's death Wednesday. Hopson battled c...
Apr 03, 2024
Police remove migrants from central Paris square ahead of the Olympics
PARIS (AP) - French police on Wednesday removed dozens of migrants, including families with young children, from the forecourt of Paris City Hall as the capital prepares to mark 100 days to the start ...
Apr 03, 2024
Police remove migrants from central Paris square ahead of the Olympics
PARIS (AP) - French police on Wednesday removed dozens of migrants, including families with young children, from the forecourt of Paris City Hall as the capital prepares to mark 100 days to the start ...
Apr 03, 2024
Tech industry says barriers keep Canadian companies from selling to government
OTTAWA - Bureaucracy makes it too difficult for Canadian tech companies to sell to government, a new report from an industry group says - and all that red tape is keeping them from a bigger piece of t...
Apr 03, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Please, let’s allow the Byron McCorkell episode to go away now
THE BYRON McCORKELL affair is over. Let it stay that way.Acting CAO McCorkell was suspended from his job, then he was re-instated. Let it end there.Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, at first quoted as saying ...
Apr 03, 2024
Canada's Gushue downs the Netherlands to improve to 6-1 at world curling playdowns
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland - Canada's Brad Gushue scored a 7-4 win over Wouter Goesgens of the Netherlands at the world men's curling championship on Wednesday. Gushue scored a pair in the opening end ...
Apr 03, 2024
Bodies of 6 foreign aid workers slain in Israeli strikes are transported out of Gaza
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Egyptian state media say the bodies of six foreign aid workers killed in a series of Israeli strikes have been transported out of the Gaza Strip before their repatriation. Qah...
Apr 03, 2024
Spanish police detain ex-soccer federation head Rubiales on return to country amid corruption probe
MADRID (AP) - Spanish police detained former soccer federation president Luis Rubiales on his return to the country amid an ongoing corruption probe, Spain's Civil Guard said Wednesday. The Civil Guar...
Apr 03, 2024
