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OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — The wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for the new coronavirus, his office said late Thursday. “Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau was tested for COVID-19 today. The test came back positive,” the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. “Following medical advice, she will remain in isolation for the time being. She is feeling well, is taking all the recommended precautions and her symptoms remain mild,” it said. “The Prime […]
ByThomas I. Likness EBC Edmonton Bureau EDMONTON, CANADA (Eagle News) — Public health officials in the western Canadian province of Alberta reported an additional seven cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Chief medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, said Tuesday the new cases are recovering at home in self-isolation. One previously announced person is in hospital. That person had a pre-existing condition and is reported in stable condition. “While new cases are always concerning, […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canada has recorded its first death from the new coronavirus, health officials in the westernmost province of British Columbia announced Monday. The victim, a man living at an elderly care facility, “was infected with COVID-19 (and) passed away last night,” the province’s health officer Bonnie Henry told reporters. Officials have not released the victim’s age. Henry said he had been a resident of the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on Monday for a major national debate involving everyone from industry to indigenous groups to move the country to carbon neutrality by 2050 and still grow the economy. Trudeau was re-elected last October, with a minority government, after a campaign focused on climate issues. He vowed that Canada would reach net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century. Sixty-six other countries have already signed onto the pledge “Around […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — An international mental health charity based in France accused its revered Canadian founder on Saturday of sexually abusing several women. L’Arche (The Ark) said an independent investigation had found that six women were abused by Jean Vanier between 1970 and 2005 but that none of the victims identified were disabled. Vanier, a devout Catholic who set up L’Arche, in the 1960s, died last year of cancer. “We are devastated by […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A chartered plane carrying more than 200 Canadians evacuated from the coronavirus-quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship landed at a military base in Ontario province early Friday. All the passengers who arrived at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, 200 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of Ottawa, had tested negative for COVID-19, CBC reported. They will, however, be quarantined for a further 14 days at the Nav Centre in Cornwall, Ontario, a hotel and conference […]
By Michel COMTE Agence France-Presse Ottawa, Canada (AFP) — Canada’s federal court on Tuesday denied a bid by indigenous tribes to block a long-delayed expansion of an oil pipeline, dismissing their claim that they had not been adequately consulted on the project. The decision is a win for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose government in 2016 approved the project connecting the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific coast for crude shipment to new overseas markets. […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — The number of Canadians looking to flee China because of the coronavirus epidemic rose to nearly 200 on Thursday while a third suspected case in Canada was confirmed. Officials told a parliamentary committee that 196 Canadians in Wuhan — the epicenter of the epidemic — have requested help getting back home, an increase from Wednesday when the government announced an airlift for 160. The Globe and Mail newspaper said the families […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada has chartered a plane to bring home as many as 160 of its nationals from China because of the coronavirus epidemic, officials said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne told reporters it could take several days to obtain permission to land in or near Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic. “There are 160 Canadians (in China) who have asked for consular assistance,” Champagne said. “We have secured a plane to repatriate […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canada’s first “presumptive” case of a new coronavirus has been detected in a man who returned to Toronto from the Chinese city where the virus first appeared, health officials announced Saturday. “We have the first presumptive case confirmed of this novel coronavirus here” in Toronto, Eileen de Villa, head of the city’s public health agency, said at a press conference. The patient, a man in his 50s, had been staying […]
TORONTO, Canada (AFP) – A court in Toronto on Wednesday ordered Volkswagen to pay a fine of Can$196.5 million (US$150 million) after the automaker pleaded guilty to violating environmental laws in the emissions cheating scandal. The court accepted an agreement that the German automaker reached with the Canadian government, which in December filed a 60-count indictment against the company. This fine is in addition to nearly Can$2.4 billion that Volkswagen had agreed to pay in […]
(Eagle News) – The Parliament Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons in Canada, His Excellency Kevin Lamoureaux, made a courtesy call on Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo on Tuesday, Jan. 21, expressing to the INC leader how the Church had made a “very positive impact” in the world. A leading member of the Parliament of Canada representing Winnipeg North, Lamoureaux, cited […]
