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US housing starts plummeted 11.2 per cent in December
WASHINGTON - The number of homes being built in December plunged to the lowest level in more than two years, a possible sign that developers are anticipating fewer new houses to be sold this year. The...
Feb 26, 2019
Ladies Night Out in Lakeland
Lakeland Early Learning Cooperative is hosting a Ladies Night Out on April 6 to raise funds for our daycare centre. Our centre has approximately $125,000 in repairs, renovations and improvements we wo...
Feb 26, 2019 : Karen Cay
Lawyer says R. Kelly to stay jailed until Monday or Tuesday
CHICAGO - R. Kelly, one of the bestselling music artists of all time, won't get out of jail until Monday or Tuesday as confidants scramble to arrange to pay the $100,000 bail needed to free him as he ...
Feb 26, 2019
Attacked and powerless, Venezuela soldiers choose desertion
CUCUTA, Colombia - The simple house on a street ridden with potholes in this town on Colombia's restive border with Venezuela has become a refuge for the newly homeless - 40 Venezuelan soldiers who ab...
Feb 26, 2019
Mirroring grandfather, Kim rides the rails to Trump summit
HANOI, Vietnam - For his second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opted to go retro - riding the rails like his grandfather decades before. Kim's decision to tak...
Feb 26, 2019
As Kim's car passes, North Korean defector cries and shouts
HANOI, Vietnam - A tearful North Korean defector shouted "Please, let me go back home!" as a black limousine carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un passed by her in Hanoi on Tuesday. Shin Eun Ha is ...
Feb 26, 2019
India strikes inside Pakistan after deadly Kashmir attack
BALAKOT, Pakistan - A pre-dawn airstrike inside Pakistan that India said targeted a terrorist training camp and killed a "very large number" of militants ratcheted up tensions on Tuesday between the t...
Feb 26, 2019
House to vote on measure revoking Trump's emergency order
WASHINGTON - Democrats are moving quickly to try to roll back President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to siphon billions of dollars from the military to fund construction of a fen...
Feb 26, 2019
Freeland, Hunt to announce Canadian-British press freedom summit this summer
OTTAWA - Canada and Britain will co-host an international summit in London this summer on the growing threats to freedom of the press, and to promote better protection of journalists, The Canadian Pre...
Feb 26, 2019
BMO Field has new grass but playing in February still a groundskeeping challenge
Toronto FC players and coaches like to have the grass field at BMO Field watered, so they can fizz the ball over a slick surface. Watering the field in February in Toronto presents a problem, how...
Feb 26, 2019
