Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the occasion of Raoul Wallenberg Day to issue a news release decrying “a resurgence of hatred, racism, and anti-Semitism in our world.” Justin Trudeau called Wallenberg a hero and humanitarian whose work saved tens… »
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Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
ISIS terrorist claims he’s Canadian
A man who is now believed to be the masked man featured in several threatening and horrific ISIS propaganda videos, says he comes from Canada. Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed was captured by Kurdish forces during a gun battle in Syria against… »
Canadian frigate heading home after 6-month deployment
HMCS Ville de Québec is finally heading home after having spent nearly six months at sea in support of NATO operations in the Mediterranean and Northern Atlantic. The Canadian frigate deployed from its home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia on… »
Another Canadian kidnapped in Burkina Faso
An Canadian employee of Vancouver-based Progress Minerals has been kidnapped in the west African country of Burkina Faso. Canadian Press reports he is Kirk Woodman and that he was abducted during a raid on a mining site. Canadian officials are… »
TSB joins investigation of fatal Ottawa bus accident
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board is joining the the investigation into last Friday’s bus accident in Ottawa that killed three people and injured 23 others. Ottawa’s police chief, Charles Bordelerau, made the announcement Wednesday afternoon in Ottawa. Bordeleau said the city… »
Canada should ‘play hardball with’ China, says activist
Relations between Canada and China have sunk to an all-time low since Canada responded to an extradition request from the U.S. in early December 2018 and arrested Meng Wanzhou, a chief executive with telecommunications giant Huawei. In what looks like… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
‘National security concern’ gets residency in bureaucratic bungle
As reports from Washington suggest that the U.S. wants to increase its focus on its northern border, officials in Ottawa are grappling with what’s being called a “completely unacceptable” mistake that allowed a person of “national security concern” to be granted… »
U.S. says China’s death sentence against Canadian ‘politically motivated’
The U.S. State Department blasted China’s death sentence against a Canadian man convicted of drug smuggling as “politically motivated.” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland spoke Tuesday and “expressed their concerns about the arbitrary detentions… »
Six-in-ten Canadians say lack of new pipeline capacity represents a crisis: poll
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians believe that the lack of pipeline capacity to move oil from Western Canada to overseas markets constitutes a crisis for the country’s economy, according to a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute. The research comes… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Goodale warns of growing right-wing hate
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says hate groups, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis, are a growing threat in Canada. And, Goodale says, internet providers have an obligation to make sure they don’t provide a platform for spreading fear and hate.… »
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