Tag: Canada

New docs, recording released in Canada PM meddling scandal

by Michel COMTE Agence France-Presse OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) – A political meddling scandal threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s re-election bid was given fresh impetus Friday with the release of messages and a secret recording supplied by his former attorney general. The House of Commons justice committee, looking into the explosive allegations that Trudeau officials pressured attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to shield engineering firm SNC-Lavalin from trial, released the materials from the now former official. The controversy […]

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Canada grants asylum to woman who sheltered Snowden in Hong Kong

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada has granted asylum to a woman who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed US global surveillance programs, a refugee rights association said Monday. Vanessa Rodel and her 7-year-old daughter Keana were scheduled to arrive in Toronto later Monday on a flight from Hong Kong, the non-profit organization For the Refugees said. Rodel was among a group of people who sheltered Snowden, a former CIA employee […]

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Man charged with attempted murder over Canada priest attack

  MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A man who allegedly stabbed a priest in front of his congregation live on television during mass at Canada’s biggest church was charged Saturday with attempted murder and assault with a weapon. Vlad Cristian Eremia, 26, appeared briefly by video link in a Montreal court on Saturday afternoon, sporting a beard and wearing a checked shirt. He will remain in custody, with his next hearing on Monday. The suspect is […]

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Priest stabbed live on TV at Canada’s biggest church

  by Julien Besset Agence France Presse MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A priest was stabbed in front of his congregation live on television during morning mass on Friday at Canada’s biggest church, in what police described as an isolated incident. Footage broadcast on a Catholic television station and picked up by the top-rated CTV network showed a man in jeans, parka and white baseball cap approach Claude Grou at St Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, in […]

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Trudeau offers election year budget treats

by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, United States (AFP) — Canada’s government doled out goodies for almost everyone in an election year budget Tuesday that looks to brace a slowing economy and sagging support for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. The spending binge appeared calculated to appeal to the broadest number of voters. But pundits said it likely won’t be enough to turn the page on a political scandal dogging Trudeau, and lamented a lack of signature initiatives and […]

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Canadian couple builds world’s largest snow maze

ST. ADOLPHE, Canada (AFP) — A-maze-ing: a snow labyrinth in the frigid, windswept prairies of Western Canada has broken the record for the world’s biggest. According to Guinness World Records, the whopping 2,789.11 square meters (30,0021.73 square feet) of terrain dwarfs the previous Canadian record holder at the Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay, Ontario. For years, farmers Clint and Angie Masse would ring in the fall harvest by building a corn maze on […]

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Canada FM decries China halting canola shipments

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Ottawa’s foreign minister on Tuesday decried Beijing’s move to block a major Canadian canola exporter’s sales in China, the latest escalation in a burgeoning row between the two countries. Canada’s largest agricultural handler, Winnipeg-based Richardson International, had its license to ship canola to China revoked on March 1, which risks leaving Canadian farmers with a glut on their hands. “The situation with the Richardson company concerns me greatly,” said Foreign Minister Chrystia […]

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Canada budget minister quits in fresh blow to Trudeau

by Eric THOMAS OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was dealt a fresh blow Monday when his budget minister resigned, the latest in a string of officials to quit amid allegations of government interference in a major fraud case. Jane Philpott, who also served as Treasury Board president, said she no longer had confidence in Trudeau’s government over the allegations that senior officials attempted to head off the prosecution of engineering giant […]

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Trudeau ‘concerned’ as China suspects Canadian of spying

By Jacques Lemieux, with Poornima Weerasekara in Beijing Agence France-Presse MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau voiced strong concern Monday that China suspects a detained former Canadian diplomat of spying and stealing state secrets. The allegations against Michael Kovrig mark a new escalation in the diplomatic row between Beijing and Ottawa stemming from Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, an executive from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. “We are obviously very concerned with the position […]

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Canada launches extradition of Huawei executive to US

  by Michel Comte Agence France Presse OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada on Friday launched the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to the United States — the latest move in a case that has roiled relations between the North American neighbors and China. Beijing was quick to react, saying Ottawa’s action amounted to a “severe political incident.” The 47-year-old businesswoman was changing planes in Vancouver in December when she was detained at Washington’s request […]

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Canada ‘going to the Moon’: Trudeau

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada will join NASA’s space mission to put an orbiter around the Moon in a few years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. “Canada is going to the Moon,” Trudeau told a press conference that included a live video link from the International Space Station with Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques. NASA plans to build a small space station, dubbed Gateway, in the Moon’s orbit by 2026. It will serve as a […]

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Top advisor to Canada PM Trudeau resigns amid controversy

  OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top advisor quit on Monday amid allegations of political interference in the criminal prosecution of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. One of the key architects of Trudeau’s 2015 electoral win and his longtime friend, Gerry Butts said he resigned as the prime minister’s principle secretary to avoid distractions for the government facing another tough ballot fight in eight months. In a statement, Butts “categorically” denied accusations that […]

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