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TORONTO — An appearance by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at an event for Liberal supporters in Toronto was interrupted by a protester from Grassy Narrows First Nation Thursday. The unidentified woman called on the federal government to make good on its promise to provide a mercury treatment centre for the northwestern Ontario community. She cut […]

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VANCOUVER — The defence team for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou says it plans to argue that she shouldn’t be extradited to the United States because she hasn’t committed fraud under Canadian laws and her arrest at Vancouver’s airport was unlawful. The defence summarized arguments it plans to pursue during a hearing Wednesday at B.C. Supreme […]

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BEIJING — A Chinese court held an appeal hearing Thursday for a Canadian who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling in a case that has deepened a diplomatic rift between the two countries. The intermediate-level court in northeastern Liaoning province said Robert Schellenberg’s sentence would be announced at an unspecified date. Convicted of playing […]

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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A judge hearing an unusual child pornography trial says his verdict will hinge on whether a Newfoundland man knew the sex doll he ordered online was designed to resemble a child. Judge Mark Pike heard closing arguments Tuesday in what’s believed to be the first trial in Canada dealing with child […]

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Click:软文发布 Elizabeth May’s new husband John Kidder is hoping to join his wife at work in the House of Commons this fall. Kidder is running as a Green Party candidate in the fall federal election, party spokeswoman Rosie Emery told HuffPost Canada on Tuesday. He’ll try to snag the B.C. seat for Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon, currently […]

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OTTAWA — Monday’s byelection win for the Green party in B.C. is a sign that Canadians are “preoccupied” with the issue of climate change going into this fall’s federal election, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Green hopeful Paul Manly took a commanding 37.3 per cent of the vote in the Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith, […]

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VANCOUVER — Children and youth in British Columbia who are coping with psychiatric issues now have access to a medical identification service similar to those with diabetes or severe allergies. A pilot program launched at BC Children’s Hospital aims to help first responders and health-care professionals treat young mental-health patients in an emergency. Young patients […]

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Click:Chandelier ISLAMABAD — A lawyer representing a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after she spent eight years on death row in Pakistan says she has arrived in Canada. Pakistani officials and others involved in the case said Wednesday that Aasia Bibi had left Pakistan to be reunited with her daughters in Canada, where they had […]

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