The Canadian PressLee Berthiaume OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined leaders from the world’s 20 richest nations on Sunday in a promise to work together to keep trade flowing, fight climate change and provide COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries. The promises are contained in a final communique issued by […]
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VENTURA, Calif. – A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over the drowning of “Glee” actor Naya Rivera, who died this summer while boating with her 4-year-old son on a California lake. The suit, filed Tuesday, blames Ventura County and managers of Lake Piru for her accidental death on July […]
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA–Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says Chinese telecom giant Huawei rose to dominance by stealing the technology of the defunct Canadian firm Nortel. O’Toole is levelling the industrial-espionage charge against Huawei and the Chinese Communist Party as he announces that the Conservatives are pushing the Liberals to decide within 30 days […]
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Mark Scolforo
Mark Scolforo
A hearing on the Trump campaign’s federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results remains on track for Tuesday after a judge quickly denied the campaign’s new lawyer’s request for a delay. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann told lawyers for Donald J. Trump for President Inc. […]
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Mary Clare Jalonick
Mary Clare Jalonick
WASHINGTON–Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving Republican senator, says he is quarantining after being exposed to the coronavirus. Grassley, 87, did not say how he was exposed. He said he would follow doctor’s orders and “immediately quarantine” and work virtually as he waits for results of a test. “I’m feeling […]
The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER – The lengthy extradition process resumes today for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou as her lawyers fight against her removal from Canada to the United States. The legal team for Meng is gathering evidence in B.C. Supreme Court for an abuse of process claim, alleging RCMP and border officials co-ordinated […]
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Lee Berthiaume
Lee Berthiaume
OTTAWA – The Chinese government is firing back at Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations for calling on the UN to investigate whether China’s persecution of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province is a genocide. During a news conference in Beijing Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian described […]
The Canadian Press
Mike Blanchfield
Mike Blanchfield
OTTAWA – The federal government is expected to announce long-awaited plans today to help Canadians living in Hong Kong amid the Chinese clampdown on democracy in the territory. Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino is to unveil the government’s plans at a press conference in Ottawa. Earlier Thursday, members of the House […]
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Will Weissert
Will Weissert
WILMINGTON, Del.–President-elect Joe Biden is championing the Obama administration’s signature health law as it goes before the Supreme Court in a case that could overturn it. He will deliver a speech on the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, the day the high court will hear arguments on its merits. The […]
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John Leicester
John Leicester
PARIS – A sexual assault trial for the Vatican’s former ambassador to France went ahead without him Tuesday after he produced a doctor’s note saying it was too dangerous for him to travel from Rome to Paris in the midst of France’s resurgent coronavirus epidemic. The court rejected a request […]
The Canadian Press
Lee Berthiaume
Lee Berthiaume
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the first international leader to have personally congratulated Joe Biden on being elected U.S. president. The Prime Minister’s Office says Trudeau and Biden spoke by telephone today – a conversation that took place even as Donald Trump refused to concede, making unfounded allegations […]
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JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he made no distinction between Democrats and Republicans and intended to stand up for Israel’s interests in the face of a new American administration. The Israeli leader has been trying to sound a message of bipartisanship since Democrat Joe Biden’s victory […]
