• Raleigh News and Observer

    Lee Roberts should be made UNC chancellor permanently, GOP legislative leaders say

    House Speaker Tim Moore said Roberts showed “incredible leadership” and “a lot of backbone” on campus Tuesday. But the university has faced criticism over its handling of arrests.

  • CBC

    Fire at historic Ogden Block in Calgary's southeast sends one person to hospital

    A century-old building that Calgarians have been lobbying to save from demolition caught fire early Wednesday, sending one person who was inside to hospital. Carol Henke, public information officer for the Calgary Fire Department, said a call came in at 3:50 a.m. about a fire in the Ogden Block, a 110-year-old building at 7044 Ogden Rd. S.E.The fire was on the second floor of the building, which had been boarded up. Henke said no electricity or gas have been connected for some time. Two people w

  • Reuters

    UPDATE 1-Many in BOJ board saw need for yields to be set by markets, minutes show

    Many Bank of Japan board members agreed the country's long-term interest rates should be set by markets, with some saying the central bank should at some point slow the pace of bond buying, minutes of their March policy meeting showed on Thursday. At the March meeting, the BOJ ended eight years of negative interest rates and its bond yield control in a historical shift away from its prolonged radical stimulus programme. One member said it was appropriate for the BOJ to take time in adjusting the pace of its Japanese government bond (JGB) purchases to avoid rapid fluctuations, according to the minutes.