MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Five people were taken to hospital with minor injuries and a fuel truck driver was charged after a truck hit a plane on the tarmac at Toronto Pearson airport early Friday morning. Authorities say the Air Canada Jazz flight with 51 people on board had left for Sudbury, Ont., but turned around […]
OTTAWA — China is detaining two Canadians in harsh conditions and U.S. lawmakers won’t rest until they are freed, says a powerful Republican senator. The full-throated American support for Canadian ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor came as the China-U.S. trade war reached new extremes Friday, with $200 billion in new U.S. tariffs on […]
The mayor of a small village in Saskatchewan says a Nazi flag on the roof of a house there is coming down. Darcy King of Kelliher, northeast of Regina, says the flag went up Thursday night and has already led to complaints with the village. He says photos of the flag have also been posted […]
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 […]
VICTORIA — A report that estimates $5 billion was laundered through British Columbia’s real estate market last year also lifts the lid on the extent of illegal cash moving across Canada. Some $7.4 billion overall was laundered in B.C. in 2018, out of an estimated total of $47 billion in Canada, concluded the report by […]
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 […]
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 […]
CALGARY — A man suspected of killing a woman and her toddler daughter has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Robert Andrew Leeming, 34, appeared via video before a justice of the peace in Calgary on Tuesday. His next court date is May 14. “We had the matter put over a week so […]
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 […]
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 […]