Posts tagged with "Canada"

China-held Canadian 'can't turn lights off' Asia

China-held Canadian 'can't turn lights off'

December 21st, 2018 A former Canadian diplomat detained in China is being denied legal representation and is not allowed to turn the lights off at night, people familiar with the situation said, offering new details on the closely watched case. China last week detained two Canadians - Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat and an adviser with the...
Canada set to get most refugee claims in nearly three decades Americas

Canada set to get most refugee claims in nearly three decades

November 16th, 2018 Canada is on track to receive its highest number of refugee claims since record-keeping began nearly three decades ago, the latest data shows, as the government's handling of immigration comes under scrutiny ahead of next year's federal election. Despite cooler weather, the number of refugee claimants jumped past 6,000 in October, the...
Canada's Trudeau on a flying visit to Cyprus Cyprus

Canada's Trudeau on a flying visit to Cyprus

November 12th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday had a bilateral meeting with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who stopped in Cyprus for refueling on his way to Asia from France. The meeting took place at the old Larnaca airport building, according to an official statement. Anastasiades briefed the Canadian PM about the latest...
Canada legislators vote to strip Myanmar's Suu Kyi of citizenship Americas

Canada legislators vote to strip Myanmar's Suu Kyi of citizenship

September 28th, 2018 Canadian legislators, in a symbolic move, on Thursday voted unanimously to strip Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship in response to crimes committed against the Rohingya minority. The move by the House of Commons lower chamber has no immediate effect because honorary citizenship is conferred by a...
Police charge man in shooting in Fredericton, Canada Americas

Police charge man in shooting in Fredericton, Canada

August 11th, 2018 Police charged a man in the deaths of four people, including two police officers, and identified the civilians killed in a shooting on Friday in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton. Police charged Matthew Vincent Raymond, 48, with four counts of first degree murder, according to a statement on Saturday. They identified the...
Two police, two others killed in Canada shooting (Update 3) Americas

Two police, two others killed in Canada shooting (Update 3)

August 10th, 2018 Four people, including two police officers, were killed in a shooting in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton and one person was taken into custody, police said on Friday. Police in Fredericton, a city of about 56,000 that is the capital of the province of New Brunswick, said in a post on Twitter that the incident was under...
Saudi says no room for mediation in Canada row Americas

Saudi says no room for mediation in Canada row

August 8th, 2018 A worsening row between Saudi Arabia and Canadaabout human rights threatens to undermine Riyadh's foreign investment drive, a campaign already unsettled by a series of assertive political and diplomatic initiatives by the top oil exporter. The kingdom froze new trade and investment with Canada and expelled its ambassador this week,...
Saudi Arabia stops all medical treatment programs in Canada [V] World

Saudi Arabia stops all medical treatment programs in Canada [V]

August 8th, 2018 Saudi Arabia has stopped all medical treatment programs in Canada and is coordinating for the transfer of all Saudi patients from Canadian hospitals to other hospitals outside Canada, Saudi press agency said early on Wednesday. The agency cited Saudi Health Attaché in the United States of America and Canada Dr. Fahd bin Ibrahim Al...
Canada to ask allies to help cool Saudi dispute as kingdom blocks its grain Americas

Canada to ask allies to help cool Saudi dispute as kingdom blocks its grain

August 7th, 2018 Canada plans to seek help from United Arab Emirates and Britain to defuse an escalating diplomatic dispute with Saudi Arabia, sources said on Tuesday, as traders revealed the Arab state would no longer buy Canadian wheat and barley. The Saudi government on Sunday recalled its ambassador to Ottawa, barred Canada's ambassador to Riyadh...
Trump, to allies, says won't let them take advantage of US Americas

Trump, to allies, says won't let them take advantage of US

June 12th, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up his feud with America's closest allies over trade, saying he could not allow them to continue taking advantage of the United States. Although he insisted he had a good relationship with Justin Trudeau, just days after blowing up a G7 summit the Canadian prime minister had hosted, Trump...
Trump attacks EU, Canada amid backlash ahead of G7 summit World

Trump attacks EU, Canada amid backlash ahead of G7 summit

June 8th, 2018 Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations headed for a summit in Canada on Thursday more divided than at any time in the group's 42-year history, as US President Donald Trump's 'America First' policies risk causing a global trade war and deep diplomatic schisms. In a bid to rebuild America's industry, Trump has imposed hefty tariffs...
Canada clears major hurdle in legalising recreational marijuana World

Canada clears major hurdle in legalising recreational marijuana

June 8th, 2018 Canada's Senate on Thursday voted to legalise recreational marijuana, clearing a major hurdle that puts the country on track to become the first Group of Seven nation to permit national use of the drug. The upper chamber Senate voted 56-30 in favour of the legislation but included amendments that the House of Commons will need to...
Two men set off bomb in restaurant in Canada, 15 wounded Americas

Two men set off bomb in restaurant in Canada, 15 wounded

May 25th, 2018 Two unidentified men walked into a restaurant on Thursday in the Canadian city of Mississauga and set off a bomb, wounding more than a dozen people, and then fleeing, authorities said. The blast went off in the Bombay Bhel restaurant at about 10:30 p.m. Fifteen people were taken to hospital, three of them with critical injuries, the...
Canada granting refugee status to fewer illegal border crossers Americas

Canada granting refugee status to fewer illegal border crossers

May 22nd, 2018 Canada is rejecting more refugee claims from people who crossed the border illegally as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government seeks to dissuade, block and turn back thousands more, according to new data obtained by Reuters. Forty percent of such border crossers whose claims were finalized in the first three months of this year...
14 killed in bus crash involving junior hockey team in Canada Americas

14 killed in bus crash involving junior hockey team in Canada

April 7th, 2018 Fourteen people were killed when a bus carrying a junior hockey team collided with a truck in Saskatchewan, Canadian, media reported. Fourteen other people on the bus, transporting the Humboldt Broncos, were injured in the crash late on Friday and taken to hospitals throughout the Tisdale area, about 300 km north of Regina, The...
Man pleads guilty to killing 6 in mosque shooting Americas

Man pleads guilty to killing 6 in mosque shooting

March 28th, 2018 A former Canadian university student has pleaded guilty to killing six men who were praying in a Quebec City mosque in January 2017, a court said on Wednesday, averting a trial in one of the country’s rare mass shootings. Alexandre Bissonnette, 28, handcuffed and wearing leg irons as he entered the Quebec City courtroom, had asked...
Trudeau says he shouldn't make stupid jokes in public Americas

Trudeau says he shouldn't make stupid jokes in public

February 7th, 2018 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday admitted he should not be making stupid jokes in public after a quip last week prompted the scorn of conservative commentators in the United States and elsewhere. During a town hall in Edmonton, Trudeau interrupted a woman after she used the word "mankind", saying he preferred...
Somali refugee faces terror charges in Canada attacks Americas

Somali refugee faces terror charges in Canada attacks

October 2nd, 2017 A Somali refugee who had been on a watch list over extremist views faced five counts of attempted murder and terror charges on Sunday after Canadian police said he stabbed a police officer and ran down four pedestrians with a car in Edmonton, Alberta. The suspect, a 30-year-old man whom police did not identify, had been investigated...
Somali refugee faces terror charges in Canada stabbing, car attacks Global terrorism

Somali refugee faces terror charges in Canada stabbing, car attacks

October 1st, 2017 A Somali refugee who had been on a watch list over extremist views faced five counts of attempted murder and terror charges on Sunday after Canadian police said he stabbed a police officer and ran down four pedestrians with a car in Edmonton, Alberta. The suspect, a 30-year-old man whom police did not identify, had been investigated...
Canada wildfires disrupt industry, force 14,000 from homes Americas

Canada wildfires disrupt industry, force 14,000 from homes

July 11th, 2017 Rapidly spreading wildfires in Western Canada's British Columbia on Monday disrupted timber and mining operations, damaged equipment at a regional electric utility and forced thousands from homes in the interior of the province. Authorities said at least 10 of more than 200 fires burning across the province were close to residential...
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Europe's Nato members, Canada to raise defence spending in 2017

Europe's Nato members and Canada will jointly raise defence spending by 4.3 per cent in 2017, Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, partly aimed at showing the United States they are committed to shouldering more costs. US President Donald Trump has made more expenditure his priority for Nato, using his first...
Cyprus and Canada sign MoU in health sector Health

Cyprus and Canada sign MoU in health sector

June 24th, 2017 Cyprus and Canada signed have a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the wider health sector, the health ministry announced. The ministry said that the agreement is “a significant development for Cyprus and its relations with Canada”. “This Memorandum of Understanding is intended to foster cooperation between the...
TTIP: conquest by stealth or plunder, American style Opinion

TTIP: conquest by stealth or plunder, American style

November 20th, 2016 By J.M. Knowles WHEN a pickpocket has designs on your wallet, he devises some clever way to distract your attention.  A prime example of this is the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA) recently signed in Brussels and now presumably to be referred to all EU countries for a ratification that is assumed to be virtually automatic.  What...
EU and Canada sign free trade agreement (Update 1) World

EU and Canada sign free trade agreement (Update 1)

October 30th, 2016 The European Union and Canada signed a free trade agreement on Sunday that aims to generate jobs and growth though it must still clear some 40 national and regional parliaments in Europe in the coming years to enter fully into force. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed the treaty along with the heads of EU institutions, a...
Belgium breaks deadlock over EU-Canada free trade pact (Update) World

Belgium breaks deadlock over EU-Canada free trade pact (Update)

October 28th, 2016 Belgium's regions agreed to a free trade pact with Canada on Thursday, ending weeks of uncertainty when internal divisions in just one country blocked the European Union of 500 million people sealing the landmark deal. Prime Minister Charles Michel said the regions and linguistic communities had drafted a four-page addendum to the...
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