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Canadian convenience store chain Couche-Tard has dropped its multi-billion-euro takeover bid for French supermarket giant Carrefour, the two companies confirmed Saturday, after Paris said it would veto the deal.
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Bejing -
Two Canadians detained in China for over two years on spying charges were allowed to call their families out of "humanitarian considerations" over Christmas, Beijing said Thursday.
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Toronto -
Canada and other nations whose citizens died in Iran's downing of a Ukrainian jetliner one year ago on Friday called on Tehran to come clean about the tragedy and "deliver justice" for the victims' families.
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A female wolf pup mummy, perfectly preserved as it remained locked in permafrost for 57,000 years, is finally giving up some of its secrets, including how the grey wolf died and ended up alone in the ice so long ago.
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Ottawa -
Nuclear power is essential to meeting Canada's climate-change goals, and developing portable mini nuclear reactors is a key part of that strategy, the federal energy minister, Seamus O'Regan said when unveiling the nation's new SMR action plan.
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By AFP
Vancouver -
Canada would violate international law by extraditing a Huawei executive to the United States, her lawyers argue in new documents cited by the Canadian public television channel CBC.
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By AFP
Toronto -
A Canadian man inspired by the misogynist "incel" movement to kill 10 people by ploughing a van into pedestrians in Toronto was aware of his actions and cannot claim criminal irresponsibility, prosecutors said.
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Montr -
Canada, which has placed orders and options on more than 400 million doses of coronavirus vaccine, will share any excess doses with other countries once its population is inoculated, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.
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Montr -
Canadian police announced Tuesday the arrest of fashion executive Peter Nygard at the request of the US justice system, which is seeking his extradition to stand trial for sex crimes.
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Ottawa -
Canada will receive tens of thousands of doses of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year, and 200,000 more doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech shot are expected next week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday.
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Ottawa -
Pfizer vaccine shipments arrived in Canada Sunday night. More than a dozen sites across the country this week will mark what some have dubbed “V-Day” as the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations reach the arms of Canadians.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada will begin a roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, just days after becoming one of the first countries to approve the treatment.
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Ottawa -
Canadian Michael Kovrig, "arbitrarily detained" by China for two years to the day on Thursday, reads, sings and walks 7,000 steps a day in his cell to keep sane, his wife told AFP.
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Bejing -
China's detention of two Canadians for two years on spying charges is lawful, Beijing said Thursday when asked whether the pair would be freed if a Chinese tech boss held in Vancouver returns home.
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By AFP
Washington -
Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has asked a US federal court to throw out a lawsuit which accused him of trying to have an ex-intelligence official assassinated.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada on Wednesday approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, days after Britain became the first country to greenlight and roll it out.
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Toronto -
Montreal on Sunday ordered an "emergency evacuation" of a homeless camp that formed over the summer, citing safety reasons after a fire broke out the day before.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
India on Friday summoned Canada's ambassador and warned of serious damage to diplomatic ties after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commented on growing protests by farmers, authorities said.
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Ottawa -
Demand for puppies in Canada has soared during the pandemic, and scammers are taking advantage -- swindling hundreds of people looking for a pet to ease their loneliness during lockdown.
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By AFP
Montr -
Canada announced Saturday a ban on exporting certain medicines that are or may soon be in short supply, a measure in response to a US plan to import drugs from its northern neighbor.
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By AFP
Montr -
All along the edges of a long boulevard in Montreal stretches an unprecedented sight in this city: hundreds of tents that have sprung up in a brand new homeless camp since the end of summer, with many of the people thrown out of their homes because of ...
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As COVID-19 infections skyrocketed in the U.S. Canada seemed to be doing everything right in keeping the virus at bay. But Canadians’ exhaustion with pandemic restrictions is now coinciding with an outbreak that threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems
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Ottawa -
The first ever Media Freedom Award, bestowed by the governments of Britain and Canada, was given Monday to the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the foreign ministries of the two countries said.
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By AFP
Vancouver -
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou faces a new round of extradition hearings starting Monday in Vancouver, as the two-year anniversary of her arrest by Canadian authorities approaches.
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By AFP
Montr -
A report of a possible hostage-taking at the Montreal offices of French video game company Ubisoft that brought out a massive police response Friday was being investigated as a hoax, local media said.
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By AFP
Bejing -
The ousting of four pro-democracy lawmakers from Hong Kong's legislature was "the right medicine" for the city, China said, telling foreign governments the issue was none of their business.
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By AFP
Toronto -
A Canadian man inspired by the misogynist "incel" movement to kill 10 people by ploughing a van into pedestrians in Toronto pleaded "not criminally responsible" due to mental illness at the start of his trial Tuesday.
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By AFP
Toronto -
The trial of a Canadian man linked to the misogynist "incel" movement and accused of killing 10 people by ploughing a van into pedestrians in Toronto begins Tuesday.
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By AFP
Montr -
A 24-year-old man accused of killing two people with a sword and injuring five others on Halloween night in Quebec City made a brief court appearance Thursday while four of the injured, including two French nationals, were named.
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The sword-wielding attacker dressed in medieval costume who killed two people and injured five others in a Halloween rampage in Quebec City was "not associated with a terrorist group," Canadian police said Sunday.
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Paul Henderson's jersey from the 1972 Summit Series enshrined in a glass case for the third annual Canada's Walk of Fame Festival in Toronto.
Aman Sood (left) and Bhavna Bajaj (right); son granted residency in Canada. The family handout
Supreme Court of Canada building, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada D. Gordon E. Robertson (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The first batch of doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Digital Journal Illustration
Grade 3's and 4's of the Russian immersion program at Twin Rivers Elementary School, Castlegar, B.C. singing Russian songs to commemorate the Oath of Allegiance Day for 55 new Canadians, Wed Oct 27, 2010
Map of Ottawa. The shooting began at the National War Memorial Google map
Ivan Sayers with one of his vintage collection on the stage of fashion show Avant-Garde: Now And Then at Museum of Vancouver (MOV).
Wax figures of famous people populate Louis Tussaud's Waxworks in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Gas price averages in Canada for the month of November. GasBuddy.com
Log booms on northern bank of Fraser River, New Westminster, BC, Canada.
Picture taken from a Sûreté du Québec helicopter of Lac-Mégantic, the day of the derailment, July 6, 2013. Sûreté du Québec
Downtown Ottawa skyline seen from the Ottawa River.
Major-General Richard Rohmer (Retired) delivers speech in front of the Veterans' Memorial at Queen's Park.
The T-33 Mako Shark demonstration at the 2012 EX.
Bill Reid’s “The Spirit of Haida Gwaii” represents the Aboriginal heritage of the Haida Gwaii region (Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia). The sculpture (the White Canoe) in the Grand Hall of the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, is the plaster model used to cast two bronze sculptures. One of them (the Black Canoe), is at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC; the second one (the Jade Canoe), sits at Vancouver International Airport.
Performers of AfroCeltic Dance Party and dancing audience in front of the stage at the Stadium Club, Edgewater Casino, Vancouver.
Surfing demo in the pool in the middle of the floor, The Adventure and Outdoor Show, VCC, Vancouver, Canada.
Ellen Woodsworth (COPE) casting her ballot at the gym of Ray-Cam Co-Operative Centre in East Vancouver, Nov. 19, 2011.
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