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Foreign spying, interference in Canada hit highest levels thanks to COVID-19: Agency

Foreign spying and interference in Canada last year hit levels not seen since the Cold War, in part because of vulnerabilities caused by the COVID-19 ...

1 days ago World News

Turkey’s Cavusoglu urges Canada to review curbs on defense equipment

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu urged NATO ally Canada on Monday to review defense industry restrictions which it imposed on Ankara last ...

2 days ago World News

Canada cancels military export permits for Turkey after illegal transfers abroad

The announcement was made by Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau, who said that the Canadian technology exported to Turkey was “not consistent with Canadian foreign policy, nor end-use assurances given by Turkey”

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Canada passes one mln COVID-19 cases, forcing provinces to tighten rules

Canada on Saturday crossed the threshold of one million coronavirus cases as the country faces a third wave of infections, forcing several provinces ...

04 April ,2021 Coronavirus

Ontario’s third COVID-19 wave is ‘killing faster and younger’

Ontario has entered the third wave of its coronavirus outbreak, driven by virus strains that are much more contagious and dangerous, provincial health ...

01 April ,2021 Coronavirus

Canada’s most populous province Ontario to return to COVID-19 lockdown

Canada’s most populous province is expected to return to lockdown after a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections, local media reported Wednesday.For more ...

01 April ,2021 Coronavirus

Canada suspends AstraZeneca vaccine for people under age of 55

Canada is suspending the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for people under the age of 55 following concerns it may be linked to rare blood ...

30 March ,2021 Coronavirus

Another Canadian goes on trial in China over spying charges

A second Canadian citizen held for more than two years on spying charges in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a senior executive of the ...

22 March ,2021 World News

Health Canada follows European regulators in backing AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

Canada’s health department on Thursday joined its European counterparts in backing AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine, saying the shots were not ...

19 March ,2021 Coronavirus

China sets court hearings soon for two Canadians charged with spying

Two Canadians detained by Beijing more than two years ago on suspicion of espionage will go before Chinese courts this week and next, Canada said on ...

18 March ,2021 World News

Canadian drug regulator approves AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Canada’s drug regulator approved AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, the third inoculation to get a green light and paving the way for health ...

26 February ,2021 Coronavirus

Iran’s explanations on shooting down Ukrainian plane ‘don’t add up’: UN investigator

Iran’s explanations of the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane last year present many inconsistencies that “do not add up,” requiring the ...

24 February ,2021 Middle East

China rejects Canada’s motion deeming treatment of Uighurs a genocide

China said on Tuesday that it condemned and rejected Canada’s parliament passing a non-binding motion saying China’s treatment of Uighurs is genocide. ...

23 February ,2021 World News

Canada launches bid to stop arbitrary detentions of foreign citizens by China

Canada on Monday launched a 58-nation initiative to stop countries from detaining foreign citizens for diplomatic leverage, a practice that Ottawa ...

15 February ,2021 World News

Western embassies urge Myanmar army to ‘refrain from violence’

Western embassies in Myanmar on Sunday called on the country’s military to “refrain from violence against demonstrators and civilians” after security ...

14 February ,2021 World News

Canada designates Proud Boys as a banned terrorist group

Canada on Wednesday described the far-right Proud Boys as a “serious and growing threat” and designated the movement as a banned terrorist ...

04 February ,2021 World News

T-shirt causes tension in China-Canada ties, mocks China COVID-19 response

China says it has lodged a formal complaint with Canada over T-shirts ordered by one of the country’s Beijing Embassy staff that allegedly mocked ...

02 February ,2021 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Canada ramps up deportations of thousands amid COVID-19 pandemic

Canada deported thousands of people even as COVID-19 raged last year, data seen by Reuters shows, and lawyers say deportations are ramping up, putting ...

22 January ,2021 Coronavirus

Canada’s ambassador to US shares most Biden priorities

Canada’s ambassador to the US said on Sunday that while the two countries have shared vision on many issues, President-elect Joe Biden’s economic ...

18 January ,2021 World News

Two Canadians detained in China on spy charges allowed calls with relatives

Two Canadians detained in China for over two years on spying charges were allowed to call their families out of “humanitarian considerations” over ...

14 January ,2021 World News

Coronavirus: Canada will not extend ban on flights from Britain when it expires

Canada will not extend a ban on flights from Britain when it expires later on Wednesday because new measures to fight the coronavirus have made it ...

07 January ,2021 Coronavirus

More than 200 Google employees form labor union to promote workplace equity

More than 200 employees and contractors at Google parent Alphabet Inc in the United States and Canada have formed a labor union to promote workplace ...

04 January ,2021 Technology

Coronavirus: Canada to require negative COVID-19 test for entry

Canada will require travellers to obtain a negative Covid-19 test before being allowed into the country, the government announced Wednesday.The ...

31 December ,2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Canada confirms two cases of COVID-19 variant first seen in UK

Health officials in Ontario said on Saturday that two confirmed cases of the new COVID-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom have appeared ...

27 December ,2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Canada authorizes second vaccine to fight the pandemic

Canada’s health regulator authorized a second COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he will extend the suspension of ...

23 December ,2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Canada surpasses 500,000 COVID-19 cases

Canada surpassed 500,000 coronavirus cases Saturday, according to official figures, recording a 25 percent increase in just two weeks.The country’s ...

20 December ,2020 Coronavirus

Huawei exec’s lawyers open new front in extradition trial: Report

Canada would violate international law by extraditing a Huawei executive to the United States, her lawyers argue in new documents cited by the ...

19 December ,2020 Economy

Canada nod for Boeing 737 MAX design changes, expects end to flight ban in January

Canada expects to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX jetliner in January, the country’s aviation regulator said on Thursday, after it approved ...

17 December ,2020 Technology

Canada says Iran should not lead investigation on downed Ukrainian plane

An independent Canadian report published Tuesday into a Kiev-bound passenger plane shot down by Iran in January said Tehran should not be allowed to ...

16 December ,2020 Middle East

Coronavirus: Canada to begin Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine roll-out

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 ...

14 December ,2020 Coronavirus

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