Canada News
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By AFP
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Canada is expected to channel funds into childcare, wage subsidies and other pandemic recovery measures as the government presents its new budget Monday ahead of possible snap elections.
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By AFP
Toronto -
Canada will funnel additional health staff and equipment into virus-hit Ontario as the province battles a worrying spike in Covid-19 infections, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday.
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Ontario -
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is calling for “extraordinary measures” to be implemented to address the surge of COVID-19 cases across several provinces, with Ontario setting a new record in coronavirus case numbers.
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The per capita rate of new GOVID-19 infections in Canada passed the rate in the United States last week. Specifically, the rolling 7-day average of new cases rose to 207.27 per million Canadians, compared with 206.66 cases per million U.S. residents.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada on Monday blocked military arms exports to NATO ally Turkey after a probe found Canadian drone technology had been misdirected for use in conflicts.
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By AFP
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Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday said it had reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to secure documents that its senior executive Meng Wanzhou hopes will help her fight extradition to the United States from Canada.
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By AFP
Vancouver -
Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies' chief financial officer, argued Monday that the US conspiracy and fraud charges against her are only a "concern of China" and unrelated to the United States.
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By AFP
New York -
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for greater debt relief and new creative financing to help poorer nations deal with the pandemic and prevent their economic recoveries from falling behind.
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By AFP
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The UN is in negotiations with Beijing for a visit "without restrictions" to Xinjiang to see how the Uyghur minority is being treated, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
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By AFP
Bejing -
China announced sanctions against two Americans, a Canadian and a rights advocacy body Saturday over their criticism of Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs, but Washington said the tit-for-tat measure would only intensify the spotlight on Xinjiang.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday Vladimir Putin is responsible for "terrible things," but wouldn't go so far as US President Joe Biden in calling the Russian leader a "killer.
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By AFP
Bejing -
The trial of Michael Kovrig, one of the two Canadians detained in China on spying charges, ended Monday with no verdict, as relations between Ottawa and Beijing sour.
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By AFP
Bejing -
The trial for Michael Kovrig, the Canadian detained more than two years ago in China on espionage charges, started in Beijing on Monday, with China-Canada relations in freefall.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reacted angrily Friday to the closed-door trial of a Canadian man detained in China for more than two years on espionage charges, dismissing it as "completely unacceptable.
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By AFP
Dandong -
The closed-door trial for a Canadian man detained in China for more than two years on espionage charges lasted less than three hours on Friday, a Canadian diplomat said, criticising the lack of transparency.
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By AFP
Dandong -
A Canadian man detained in China for more than two years was set to face trial on Friday on espionage charges that Canada has attacked as "trumped-up", with relations between Ottawa and Beijing at their lowest point in decades.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
China will put two Canadians on trial within days following their arrests more than two years ago in apparent retaliation for the detention of a top Huawei executive, the Canadian government said Wednesday.
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By AFP
Tehran -
Iran on Wednesday released its final report on the Ukrainian passenger jet it shot down last year killing 176 people, devoting two paragraphs to causes and absolving the armed forces.
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By AFP
Tehran -
Iran on Wednesday released its final report on the Ukrainian passenger jet it shot down last year killing 176 people, devoting two paragraphs to causes and absolving the armed forces.
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By AFP
Vancouver -
A Canadian judge has rejected a request from Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who wanted testimony from employees of the Chinese telecom giant to be admitted as evidence in her fight against extradition to the United States.
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When Canada's national health data agency reported in June 2020, that Canada had the worst record among wealthy nations for COVID-19-related deaths in long-term care facilities for older people, many observers referred to it as a “national disgrace."
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By AFP
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Chinese tech giant Huawei confirmed Thursday that senior executive Meng Wanzhou is taking HSBC to court in Hong Kong to access banking records she says will help her battle extradition from Canada to the US.
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Canada's Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there is no path to eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions that doesn't include phasing out coal power - and this won't happen as long as the country keeps exporting thermal coal.
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By AFP
Toronto -
A 28-year-old Canadian who plowed a van into pedestrians in a deadly attack three years ago in Toronto was found guilty Wednesday of murdering 10 people and trying to kill 16 others.
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By AFP
Toronto -
A Canadian man who killed 10 people by ploughing a van into pedestrians in Toronto will learn whether his actions were criminal or owed to an autism spectrum disorder when a judge delivers her verdict on Wednesday.
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By AFP
Vancouver -
The high-stakes battle by Chinese Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou against extradition to the United States enters its final stage in a Canadian court on Monday, after more than two years of legal skirmishes and diplomatic barbs.
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By AFP
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold his first foreign "trip" Friday through virtual talks with Mexico and Canada, seeking common ground on migration and other issues that have tested the neighbors' relations.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Police in Australia and Canada arrested four people accused of trying to extort a senior Iraqi politician, after what was described Wednesday as a year-long campaign of intimidation.
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By AFP
Washington -
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will lay out a "roadmap" for rebuilding US-Canada relations Tuesday during their first bilateral meeting, a senior official said, although the scrapped Keystone pipeline could present a hurdle.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canadian MPs voted Monday to label Beijing's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang as genocide, a move angrily slammed by China as a "malicious provocation.
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Endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) at Toronto Zoo
Ellen Woodsworth (COPE) casting her ballot at the gym of Ray-Cam Co-Operative Centre in East Vancouver, Nov. 19, 2011.
A coyote (prairie wolf) on the streets of Toronto
Endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) at Toronto Zoo
The ruler of 3D space with its prey, Hope area of BC, Canada.
Toronto Ontario, Canada - June 5, 2012. Located in a former Canadian Pacific Rail steam locomotive roundhouse, Steam Whistle brewery produces an average of 120,000 bottles of their Pilsner beer every day. During June and July their production will double to keep pace with demand. The company is in production 363 days of the year, only closed on Christmas and New Years day. The company produces one beer only - Pilsner - which was selected to fill a gap in the craft beer market.
OPINIONS: Thousands of Germans demonstrate in support of government whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning last August in Berlin. Markus Winkler/Wikimedia Commons
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford giving Canada Company a plaque on behalf of City Council.
Trains carrying cargo in Lytton, Fraser Canyon, BC, Canada.
Ontario cabinet secretary, Shelly Jamieson
Omar Khadr Amnesty International
Penguins gather to form a group at the Calgary Zoo. This image is part of a photo album that honors the Calgary Zoo animals and was taken before the devastating June 2013 flood in Calgary, Alberta.
Canada's Olympic athletes were given a celebration one month after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London came to an end. Thousands of enthusiastic supporters waved flags, carried placards and showed their Canadian pride.
Log booms on Fraser River, New Westminster, BC, Canada.
Lynton Crosby, is an Australian political strategist. Wikimedia / Cobber27
White lions are being reintroduced to the wild by the Global White Lion Protection Trust. What a beautiful creature.
Lit lion's head with white feathers as one of artistic installations of Lantern Festival, Vancouver.
The second annual Brazil Day Canada Festival in downtown Toronto.
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