DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. – Retired freestyle skier Jean-Luc Brassard will serve as Canada’s assistant chef de mission for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
B.C.'s Scott assured of at least a tiebreaker game after seventh win at Scotties
KINGSTON, Ont. – British Columbia’s Kelly Scott has picked up her seventh win at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Canada housing agency cuts 2013 forecast, sees firmer 2014
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada's federal housing agency scaled back its forecast for homebuilding in 2013 on Friday, saying that a slowdown in economic growth and job gains will dampen demand for new homes, the latest sign that Canada's housing market is cooling rapidly. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp said that while it expects the housing market slowdown that hit in the second half of 2012 will continue into 2013, it believes momentum will return later in 2013 and 2014. … Cardinal: Married Catholic priests a possibility
LONDON (AP) -- Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric says priests should be allowed to marry and have children.
Tremonti sees instability after Italian vote
ROME (Reuters) – Italy's national election this weekend will produce a weak, unstable and probably short-lived government, former economy minister Giulio Tremonti said on Friday. Tremonti, who is running at the head of a small party of his own, said that even if the centre left led by Pier Luigi Bersani confirmed its opinion poll lead and won a majority, it would be too small and fragile to produce an effective administration. … Colombian rebels call on Santos to save peace talks
HAVANA (Reuters) – Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels charged on Friday that the hos tile attitude of President Juan Manuel Santos threatened peace negotiations under way in Havana and urged him to salvage the talks, in their harshest criticisms since talks began three months ago. Santos infuriated the rebels earlier this week when he said they should be responsible for compensating the of thousands of farmers who were forced to flee their lands during the region's longest and only remaining guerilla war. … Ireland: Plant sent horse labeled 'beef' to Czechs
DUBLIN (AP) -- Ireland’s government says an Irish meat processor has been discovered sending horse meat mislabeled as beef to a company in the Czech Republic.
Falling lamb prices make UK, Irish sheep farmers fear for future
LONDON (Reuters) – Sheep farmers in Britain and Ireland fear for their future as oversupply of lamb in Europe drags farm-gate prices to three-year l ows while production costs soar, giving efficient New Zealand exporters a vital edge. Most British sheep farmers have been selling at a loss since November because an influx of cheap imports coincided with the delayed sales of home-grown lambs that had been held up by wet weather causing poor feeding conditions. Meanwhile, much of the European Union, the biggest market for British lamb, is in recession. … Vatican denies sinister motives behind diplomat's transfer
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican denied on Friday that Pope Benedict's decision to send a senior offic ial to a new post in Latin America was linked to a secret report about leaked papal papers. Since Benedict announced his resignation on February 11, Italian newspapers have been full of rumors about conspiracies, secret reports and lobbies in the Vatican that they say pushed the pope to abdicate. … Relative identifies driver of Maserati killed in Las Vegas Strip shooting and fiery crash
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A relative identifies the driver of a Maserati sports car killed in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip as an aspiring rapper who recently moved from Northern California to Las Vegas.
Divided Egypt opposition attacks Mursi on election call
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's opposition attac ked President Mohammed Mursi on Friday for calling elections during a national crisis, but face a test of unity in challenging Islamists who have won every poll since the 2011 revolution. No sooner had Mursi called the parliamentary polls on Thursday than liberals and leftists accused him of deepening divisions between Islamists and their opponents. Some threatened to boycott voting which starts on April 27th and finishes in late June. … Federal deficit in totalled $600M in December, $13B for fiscal year so far
OTTAWA – The federal government ran a deficit of $600 million, bringing the total for the first nine months of the current financial year to $13 billion.
Canada December budget gap up slightly; fiscal year-to-date down
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's federal budget gap widened slightly in Dec ember from a year earlier, but the deficit for the first nine months of the fiscal year was still down 19 percent, the finance department said on Friday. The monthly Fiscal Monitor said the government spent C$572 million ($561 million) more in December than it took in. The gap in December 2011 was C$538 million . For the period April to December, the deficit shrank to C$12.99 billion from C$16.06 billion in the same period in 2011. … Russian parliament demands return of orphan from U.S
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian lawmakers appealed to U.S. Congress on Friday to help return a Russian boy living with a Texas family, after the death o f his three-year-old brother intensified a dispute over international adoptions. The motion, approved overwhelmingly without any votes against by the lower house, is likely to increase tension between Moscow and Washington in a row that has contributed to a gradual cooling of relations since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency last May. … Quebec's highest-ranked tennis player facing sex charges in Florida
Quebec’s highest-ranked professional tennis player is facing five charges for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor in Florida.
Iranian diplomat seeking asylum in Norway
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A lawyer says an Iranian diplomat in Norway is seeking asylum in the Nordic country.
Five killed in Islamist car bomb attacks in north Mali
GAO, Mali (Reuters) – Five people were killed in two car bomb attacks by Islamists on pro-autonomy MNLA Tuareg rebels in a remote Malian town bordering Algeria, a spokesman for the fighters operating said on Friday. The attacks in In Khalil, some 1,700 km (1,050 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako, came a day after a car bomb killed two people in Kidal and French and Malian troops killed 15 Islamists on the streets of Gao. … We are women not dolls, say Berlusconi supporters
ROME (Reuters) – Silvio Berlusconi's party has invited female supporters to sign a manifesto saying that their de cision to vote for him does not make them worthy of ridicule. "I am a woman, not a doll," begins the manifesto on the party's website and printed in a full-page advertisement in Italy's leading newspaper days before a general election that Berlusconi's centre right looks likely to lose. Critics accuse the former prime minister of picking female politicians based on looks, and for exploiting scantily-clad starlets on his television shows. … Canada's OMERS notches 10 percent investment return in 2012
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian pension fund OMERS said on Friday it notched a 10 percent return on investments in 2012 as its private equity, property and infrastructure portfolios made strong gains, offsetting losses on its investment in Alberta’s oil and gas sector. OMERS, which manages the pension plan for Ontario’s public-sector municipal workers and has become a global dealmaker by virtue of its deep pockets, said its net assets grew to C$60.8 billion last year from C$55.1 billion at the end of 2011. “The C$5. …
Supreme Court chides Quebec police for not clarifying informant's status
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has chided Quebec’s provincial police force for failing to clarify the status of an informant involved with biker gangs.
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