Tag: Canada

Canada approves Moderna shot targeting Omicron

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) – Canada on Thursday authorized an updated Moderna Covid-19 booster shot that specifically targets the Omicron variant and is said to provide significantly better protection against it. In a summary of the decision, Health Canada said clinical trials of the new bivalent vaccine induced significantly higher immune responses than its predecessor against the now dominant Omicron variants. It also matched the older Moderna vaccine’s effectiveness against the original virus, and is recommended […]

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PHL gov’t extends condolences to family of Fil-Canadian mom, daughter who were stabbed to death in Toronto

(Eagle News) – The Philippine Consulate General in Toronto, Canada confirmed reports that a 44-year old Filipina and her daughter had been stabbed to death in a busy part of Toronto by a man whom local media claimed was known to the victims. Consul General Orontes Castro sadly confirmed the news on Wednesday August 31. He said that the consulate would be working to repatriate the remains of the victims, and extended the Philippine government’s […]

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Famed Winston Churchill photograph stolen from Canada hotel

Ottawa, Canada (AFP) The heist of a famed portrait of a scowling Winston Churchill has gripped Canada’s capital since it was discovered the photograph hanging at an Ottawa hotel for decades had been swapped for a fake. Police were called in after staff at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa last Friday noticed the picture of the late British prime minister was askew and didn’t match those of other portraits gifted by the late […]

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Germany, Canada partner on transatlantic hydrogen trade

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — The leaders of Canada and Germany signed a green hydrogen deal on Tuesday, laying a path for a transatlantic supply chain as Europe seeks to lessen its dependence on Russian energy. “It’s a vote of confidence for Canada as a leader in clean energy,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a joint press conference with visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “We cannot as a world continue to rely on authoritarian countries […]

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Germany’s Scholz looks to Canada as energy supplier

MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Canada to firm up access to new energy supplies as his country moves to quickly end its reliance on Russian oil and gas. At a joint news conference in Montreal on the first full day of his three-day visit, Scholz said Germany is rushing construction of liquid natural gas (LNG) ports infrastructure and pipelines to boost imports and […]

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Prominent Canadian cardinal accused of sexual assault

MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canadian cardinal Marc Ouellet, who has a high-ranking position within the Vatican, has been accused of sexual assault in a class action suit that targets more than 80 members of the clergy in the Quebec diocese, court documents showed Tuesday. The accusation over the alleged abuse of a female intern in 2008 comes just weeks after Pope Francis visited Canada, where he apologized for the decades-long abuse of Indigenous children in […]

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‘Overwhelming’: Survivors reflect on pope’s Indigenous abuse apology

  MASKWACIS, Canada (AFP) — Some seemed far away, others wept or applauded: a great wave of emotion swept through the crowd on Monday in western Canada’s Maskwacis when the pope himself begged forgiveness for the “evil” done to Indigenous people. One way or another, they had all been affected by the decades of abuse against children in schools run by the Catholic Church, part of a system seeking to stamp out the Indigenous identity […]

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Pope apologizes for ‘evil’ of decades of abuse in Catholic-run residential schools in Canada

  by Clement Melki and Amel Semmache Agence France Presse Pope Francis on Monday apologized for the “evil” inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of Canada on the first day of a visit focused on addressing decades of abuse at Catholic-run residential schools. The plea for forgiveness from the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics was met with applause by a crowd of First Nations, Metis and Inuit people in Maskwacis, in western Alberta province […]

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Gunman dead after killing two in Canada shooting spree

MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A gunman killed two people and wounded two others in a series of shootings near Vancouver in the early hours of Monday, before being shot dead by police, authorities said. Earlier reports had suggested the assailant may have targeted homeless people, but this was not immediately confirmed by authorities in Langley, a town of 130,000 people about an hour southeast of Vancouver. “I can confirm that four people were shot by […]

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Philippine military detains two militants accused of killing foreigners

Two Islamic militants accused of kidnapping and killing four foreigners in the restive southern Philippines were detained Friday after surrendering to the military, authorities said. The fugitives were members of the feared kidnap-for-ransom group Abu Sayyaf and have been handed over to police on Jolo island in Sulu province, regional military spokesman Alaric Delos Santos told AFP. “Their surrender does not extinguish their responsibility for these cases. That’s why we turned them over to the […]

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URGENT: Canada PM Trudeau says contracted Covid a second time

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for Covid-19 for a second time in less than five months, he said Monday, adding that he feels fine but is isolating. “I’ve tested positive for Covid-19. I’ll be following public health guidelines and isolating,” the Canadian leader said on Twitter, adding: “I feel okay.” Trudeau, who has received three doses of the Covid vaccine, also tested positive for the virus at the end of January. I’ve […]

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China accuses Australia, Canada of ‘disinformation’ over jet encounters

Beijing on Tuesday accused Australia and Canada of “spreading disinformation” over allegedly dangerous manoeuvres by Chinese military pilots in international airspace. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a day earlier hit out at “irresponsible and provocative” actions by Beijing’s air force after Canadian aircraft deployed in Japan narrowly avoided a collision with Chinese jets late last month. The incident has again heightened tensions between Beijing and Ottawa, just as a lengthy crisis over Canada’s 2018 arrest […]

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