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Lost in housing hysteria, middle-class neighbourhoods have gone extinct
Richard Florida
The three Ds of disciplining your e-mail inbox
Harvey Schachter
Study finds gender imbalance in children born to Indo-Canadian women
School girls listen to a speaker during a rally in New Delhi. The practice of sex selection is not widespread across India, said Kripa Sekhar, of the South Asian Women’s Centre in Toronto.
Israel indicts hacker linked to threats on US Jewish centres
Lockerbie bomber's family launches new bid to clear his name
Global markets gain higher as French election rally lingers
Correction: Africa-Malaria Vaccine story
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009, file photo, a mother holds her baby receiving a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya. The World Health Organization says three African countries have been chosen to test the world's first malaria vaccine. Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will begin piloting the injectable vaccine next year with young children. WHO said Monday, April 24, 2017, that the vaccine has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives if used with existing measures. The challenge is whether impoverished countries can deliver the required four doses of the vaccine for each child. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)
Family: Iran rejects detained British-Iranian woman's appeal
FILE -- In this Jan. 16, 2017 file photo, Richard Ratcliffe, husband of imprisoned charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, poses for the media during an Amnesty International led vigil outside the Iranian Embassy in London. The family of Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was detained in Iran while on a trip with her toddler daughter says all efforts to appeal her five-year prison sentence in court have failed. Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency, found out this weekend that her appeal to Iran's supreme court failed. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
Militants ambush convoy with off-duty Iraq soldiers, kill 10
Soldier with the Iraqi special forces walk through the streets of Mosul as fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group continues on Saturday, April 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
Police stop 12-year-old boy from driving across Australia
Old-guard rallies around newcomer Macron for French runoff
French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron thumbs up as he addresses his supporters at his election day headquarters in Paris , Sunday April 23, 2017. Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced Sunday to a runoff in France's presidential election, remaking the country's political system and setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Some Mountie deaths in 2014 Moncton massacre may have been preventable: Crown
A memorial to the three RCMP officers who were gunned down three years ago, is seen in Moncton, N.B. on Sunday, April 23, 2017. The bronze monument features life-size statues of Constables Fabrice Gevaudan, Dave Ross and Doug Larche, left to right, and was created by artist Morgan MacDonald. The RCMP's trial on violating four charges of the Canada Labour Code, related to the shooting that claimed the lives of the three policemen on June 4, 2014, will start on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
German business confidence up in April, beats forecasts
Haiti leader pleads guilty to money laundering in drug case
Pierre Papillon weeps after learning his relative Guy Philippe, a former Haitian coup leader, pleaded guilty to a U.S. drug money-laundering charge under a plea deal that allows him to avoid life in prison for cocaine trafficking, Monday, April 24, 2017, outside the federal court building in Miami. Philippe pleaded guilty Monday in Miami federal court. Under the plea deal, the recommended prison sentence for Philippe is nine years and the drug trafficking charge would be dropped. A judge will make the final decision July 5. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
Holocaust survivors hail Allianz golf tourney sponsor end
Holocaust survivor David Schaecter, president of the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA, speaks during a news conference in support of Boca Raton's decision to drop German insurance giant Allianz as sponsor of a professional golf tournament, Monday, April 24, 2017, in Boca Raton, Fla. Survivors say that this could renew momentum for their years-long effort to gain the right to sue the company over stolen Jewish policies during the Nazi era. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Advocates urge say-on-pay votes as annual meeting season heats up
B.C. Greens promise to balance budget, make tax system more progressive
NDP Leader John Horgan greets supporters before speaking during a campaign rally in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday April 23, 2017. A provincial election will be held on May 9. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Oil workers' strike triggers gas lines in Sri Lanka
US general in Afghanistan suggests Russia arming the Taliban
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, right, greets U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at his residence, the Sea Palace, in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, April 22, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)
Dems say Trump can avert shutdown risk if he relents on wall
FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks at the White House, in Washington. Mulvaney says that Democratic negotiators on a massive spending bill need to agree to funding top priorities of President Donald Trump, such as a down payment on a border wall and hiring of additional immigration agents. Mulvaney told The Associated Press on April 20, that “elections have consequences” and that “we want wall funding” as part of the catchall spending bill, which lawmakers hope to unveil next week. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)
Republicans in position to reshape federal bench
FILE - In this April 10, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Judge Neil Gorsuch during a re-enactment in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington. Gorsuch's wife Marie Louise Gorsuch hold a bible. Republicans have put President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee on the bench, and they’re now in a position to fill dozens more federal judgeships and reshape some of the nation's highest courts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
AP FACT CHECK: Misfires in Trump's AP interview
President Donald Trump walks past a Uniformed Secret Service Police on the North Portico upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Saturday, April 22, 2017, from a visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
AP journalist covering Kashmir protest helps injured teen
In this April 20, 2017 photo, Associated Press photographer Dar Yasin helps Khushboo Jan, 18, after she was injured during clashes between Kashmir students and India security forces in Pulwama, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. "It was an instant decision, and I didn't think twice,” Dar Yasin said. He explained that he was closest to the woman and so best able to help. “I gave my camera to a colleague. ... I took the injured girl in my arms.” (Faisal Khan via AP)
New Zealand: US doctor must pay reparations for deadly crash
Transcript of AP interview with Trump
Senate confirms Sonny Perdue as agriculture secretary
FILE - In this March 23, 2017 file photo, Agriculture Secretary-designate, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue arrives to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. After months of delays, the Senate is expected to confirm Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue on Monday, April 24, 2017, with bipartisan support. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Trump sons seek to extend family brand into domestic markets
'Terrible life full of violence:' Edmonton police charge two in toddler's death
Anthony Joseph Raine is shown in a photo from the Facebook tribute page "R.I.P. Anthony Joseph Raine." Family and friends are mourning online a toddler who was found dead outside a church in North Edmonton last week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Facebook-R.I.P Anthony Joseph Raine MANDATORY CREDIT
New Orleans takes down white supremacist monument
People participate in a candlelight vigil at the statue of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans, Monday, April 24, 2017. New Orleans will begin taking down Confederate statutes, becoming the latest Southern body to divorce itself from what some say are symbols of racism and intolerance. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
The Latest: Israeli president denounces Le Pen's comments
French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron greets his supporters as he leaves the restaurant where he met his staff after his election night in Paris, France, Monday, April 24, 2017. Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced Sunday to a runoff in France's presidential election, remaking the country's political system and setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
Dodgers, Yankees cut projected luxury tax bills
France's far-right reaches across spectrum as runoff looms
French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron thumbs up as he addresses his supporters at his election day headquarters in Paris , Sunday April 23, 2017. Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced Sunday to a runoff in France's presidential election, remaking the country's political system and setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Aaron Hernandez's Connecticut hometown prepares for funeral
FILE - In this Friday, April 14, 2017, file photo, Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez turns to look toward his fiancee Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez as he reacts to his double murder acquittal at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Hernandez’s family is planning a private funeral for the former NFL star in his hometown in Bristol, Conn. A spokeswoman for the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association said Saturday, April 22, that the service is set for Monday, April 24. The former New England Patriots tight end was found hanged in his cell in a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts early Wednesday, April 19. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, Pool, File)
Taiwan's "hacker minister" reshaping digital democracy
Morning update newsletter: Macron, Le Pen will face off in France; Ottawa eyes China trade deal
French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron greets his supporters as he leaves the restaurant where he met his staff after his election night in Paris, France, Monday, April 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
Investigators sift through wreckage after fire that killed 5
New York Fire Department personnel stand outside the scene of a deadly fire Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Queens Village in New York that killed multiple people, including children. The fire broke out Sunday afternoon on a street full of single-family homes in the middle class neighborhood of Queens Village. (Michael Appleton/Office of the Mayor via AP)
Arkansas executes 2 inmates on the same gurney, hours apart
FILE - This combination of undated file photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Jack Jones, left, and Marcel Williams. The two Arkansas inmates scheduled to be put to death Monday, April 24, 2017, in what could be the nation's first double execution in more than 16 years have asked an appeals court to halt their lethal injections because of poor health. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP, File)
North Korea quiet amid expectation of missile follow-up
In this April 15, 2017, photo, missiles are paraded across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea. Fresh off an immense North Korean parade that revealed an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles, rival South Korea and its allies are bracing for the possibility that Pyongyang's follow-up act will be even bigger. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Baby boomers not included in task force guidelines for hepatitis C screening
The average Canadian adult does not need to be screened for infection with hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that can in time cause cirrhosis or cancer of the liver, says a task force that develops practice guidelines for primary-care providers. Dr.Roland Grad, chair of the task force working group that developed the guidelines, is shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
Former Chelsea star Drogba introduced in Phoenix
Montreal Impact striker Didier Drogba, who will not be returning to the team next season, smiles as he speaks to reporters at the end of season news conference Friday, December 2, 2016 in Montreal. Although the Phoenix area isn't yet a major pro soccer market, Sunday night felt like a big step toward that dream for Phoenix Rising FC and its fans.The second-division club packed its 6,200-seat facility in nearby Scottsdale to beyond capacity for the official introduction of international superstar Drogba as player, owner and club ambassador. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Asian stocks mixed as investors mull French election outcome
In this evening Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, photo, an American flag hangs on the front of the New York Stock Exchange. European stocks declined while most Asian markets rose Friday, April 21, 2017, ahead of the first round of voting in France's closely watched presidential election. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
Pence thanks US military members during stop in Hawaii
Xi urges restraint on N. Korea in phone call with Trump
FILE - In this Friday, April 7, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pause for photographs at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. North Korea often marks significant dates by displaying military capability, and South Korean officials say there's a chance the country will conduct its sixth nuclear test or its maiden test launch of an ICBM around the founding anniversary of its military on Tuesday, April 25. Trump spoke by phone with both the Japanese and Chinese leaders Monday, April 24. China's official broadcaster CCTV quoted Xi telling Trump that China strongly opposed North Korea's nuclear weapons program and hoped "all parties will exercise restraint and avoid aggravating the situation." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Capitals give full credit to Maple Leafs: 'They gave us everything they had'
Washington Capitals centre Marcus Johansson (90), left to right, celebrates with right wing Justin Williams (14) centre Evgeny Kuznetsov (92) and left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) after scoring against the Toronto Maple Leafs during the first overtime period of game six in an NHL Stanley Cup hockey first-round playoff series in Toronto on Sunday, April 23, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Summit to focus on international visitors to New England
Fearing a worker shortage, farmers push back on immigration
Clarification: Guatemala-Goldman Environmental Prize story
Sheryl Sandberg's new book a tale of grief, resilience
FILE - In this Wednesday, June 22, 2016, file photo, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Sandberg's new book, "Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy," recounts the death of her husband, her grief, and how she recovered from it. Written with psychologist Adam Grant, it also includes research and advice on how people can build up resilience not just after, but before traumatic events happen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Survey of economists finds optimism about growth prospects
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Caitlyn Jenner’s new memoir sheds light on past struggles and future optimism
Canadian task force rejects calls for widespread hepatitis C-testing
The quarrel over hepatitis-C screening is centred around the question of how best to use the limited money available in Canada’s public health-care system.
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